Category: Brute Force

  • Part 8: A Loser

    Part 8: A Loser

    “Take me there and I’ll marry you.” I hugged him back but he didn’t look at me.

  • Part 7: A Lover

    Part 7: A Lover

    her laughter filled the car. I could become a millionaire off of selling her sweet cadence as candies and it was only for me at the moment. I never knew how pleasurable exclusivity could be. I always pictured it as stifling, but I couldn’t imagine myself happier than I was now

  • Part 6: A Lonely Soul

    Part 6: A Lonely Soul

    “Either way, I quit and I never want to see you again.” I spun around for dramatic effect. He thought he was so mysterious and unreadable. Ha! Maybe he was right and I was stupid, but I was not naive. 

  • Part 5: A Murderer

    Part 5: A Murderer

    “You wanna talk about my wife? How about the fact,” he pulled a wrinkled piece of paper from his pocket. “‘I guess I don’t like you anymore,’ sounds like a direct quote from your mouth? The more I think about it, the stranger it is. Joe is apparently the last person to have seen her.…

  • Part 4: A Greedy Liar

    Part 4: A Greedy Liar

    For the first time in a while, he seemed excited and upbeat about something. “And then we can get Felicia back from them,” he said. That worried me. That must’ve been why he was proposing this insane plan in the first place. He thought he would get his wife back because of it.

  • Part 3: A Brother

    Part 3: A Brother

    “Felicia was not our ‘mommy’. She was the wife of our employer. You’re stupid for thinking that. The only family you have is me. I warned you that you shouldn’t trust people unless I said you could.”

  • Part 2: A Boss of My Own

    Part 2: A Boss of My Own

    Slowly, I closed the door and he got the hint and left. I didn’t want to offend them, they’d both been generous to us, but I couldn’t care less about someone’s pregnancy.

  • Part 1: A Victim of the System

    Part 1: A Victim of the System

    Even though I had found a new, potentially safer environment for me and my brother, it still felt like I hadn’t accomplished enough in the day.

  • Sushi

    Sushi

    I recently went on a spring cleaning binge and put most my notes into an organizer and boy oh boy was it a trip down memory lane.