Stories by tj194

Day broke over the valley to the sounds of a natural symphony. A songbird’s melodic chirps filtered into Derrick’s master bedroom, gently rousing Julia. She squinted lazily for her lover, tapping the bed beside her, but it was empty. Julia tugged her charging cord and glided her smartphone over...

The bright mid-morning sun-baked Robby Hampton's small bedroom and woke him in a puddle of his sweat. A filthy old box fan sputtered in the corner as visions of the past 24 hours preempted his typical escape fantasy of air conditioning and a sea breeze. His sister's moans lingered in his mind...

Everyone has a trigger. Something that makes their hair stand and stomach drop. For scrawny whiteboy, Robby Hampton, it was the vibration of a loud bass blasting from a car's sound system. Not everywhere or all the time, only when it was in front of his house, rattling the pictures in his living...