To quote from Dickens; “It was the best of times and the worst of times” and our minds and mores were grounded worlds apart.

She was my Venus, beautiful, hot and foreboding and I was her Mercury, flitting faster than a speeding bullet and seldom seen.

She morphed into mother Earth at will…….. and me…. my orbiting mind seldom allowed my feet to touch the ground.

Your connection to the stars was the gravity binding us into each other’s soul; a universal…

“There’s a man on the horizon,” I say, my voice jutting over the blare of alt-rock and hip-hop as Jake, Rog and I head west one last time before graduation sets us on the rest of our lives.  “Hehe – I told you he was holdin’ out on us,” Jake snorts, twisting around to spy me…

He was a 34 year old Chemistry teacher and considered to be one of the finest and competitive teachers in the whole college; usually he was the 1^st person who enters the college and the last to leave, though he was a married man.

Very honest, friendly and kind of a teacher who exactly know how to engage their students in the subject like chemistry.

Chemistry becomes my favorite…

With one hand, he covered the man’s face with a plastic bag, pulling him from the collar with the other, dragging him along the road as a congregation of hundred or more witnessed…

Foggy crystals, thickening with every white breath, fused my upper and lower eyelashes in ironic contrast to the warm, womb-like sensation which came over my lower extremities making me wonder if I was bleeding. “Hey, dork, he just peed on your leg,” my brother laughed out. Suddenly, my left arm shot straight out with a sharp ripping sensation burning in my shoulder and everything spun like a cartoon as my body hurled across the…

Josh clambered up the high stool in the kitchen and sat down with a bemused look on his face and directed a question at his mother, “Mum, what did the priest mean when he said ‘Ashes to ashes, dust

to dust’ at Grandpa’s funeral last week?”

His mother dried her hands on a tea towel, to give herself time to think of an answer to satisfy a five year old’s need for…

“Let me introduce you to Ellen,” interrupted James, indicating the newest member of the carpool, “and you may want to keep that smell to yourself.”…