Dianna HouxI stopped at a gas station two blocks from the diner I’d just left, hopefully for the last time, and pulled out my map. According to my calculations, it would take over four hours to get from Philadelphia to New York City. Once there, I would have seven days to find a new job, apartment, […]
Chapter 3 As Caroline reached for the doorknob, she realized they had been so distracted by Randy’s enthusiastic greeting they never looked around at the outside of the house. Oh well, she thought they could always do that on the way out. Her hand hovered in mid-air as she took a minute to steady her […]
The drive to the house took about five minutes, which was a shame because Caroline had hoped to put a little more distance between her and her husband’s family. Regardless, five minutes was better than the five seconds it usually took for them to reach the front door of the camper from his parent’s back […]
Chapter 1 “I can’t take it anymore,” Caroline said as she stormed into the camper. She bashed her knee on the dinette bench for the umpteenth time and screamed in frustration as she hobbled over to the other side to sit opposite her husband. “Well,” she prodded when he failed to look up from the […]