It’s 5 a.m. I’m up. Coffee is brewed. I take the first sip. Black. No sugar. Ahhhhhhhh. The first sip is always the best, which is why I spend the rest of the day chasing that taste. Drinking cup after cup until I’m so high on caffeine there’s nowhere to go but down. And that’s when … Read more
Manny turned to find an exasperated Cassie stopped dead in the middle of the block. “Do you see what I’m wearing?” she said, pointing to her feet. What he saw were a pair of glorified slippers, the kind his ex-girlfriend referred to as mules. Aptly named for a shoe that apparently mimicked the slow moving … Read more
This is a scene from my manuscript This Time Around – a work in progress. It may or may not make it in the final version of the manuscript. “You ready? It’s nearly 6:30. Get a move on.” Janine steps into my office, bouncing on the balls of her feet, gym bag slung over her … Read more
An hour passed and Cassandra Werner hadn’t changed positions. Sitting with her legs flung over the arm of her favorite overstuffed chair, she’d been staring at her phone hitting refresh and waiting for the Nieman Marcus website to update. From the corner of her eye Cassandra saw the housekeeper enter the solarium. Without looking away … Read more