Jenny looked at herself in the mirror on the wall. The white summer dress sat as if it was painted onto her sixteen-year-old body. She turned a little and smiled at her reflection. Her long black hair was still damp after the shower and fell over her shoulders and back. She finished up her makeup and put on her shoes before walking out to the living room where her older sister Veronica was waiting for her. “No, no, no, yo...

Jenny leaned against the bar in the nightclub that belonged to the resort. She and Veronica had finished dinner, and then gone to the piano bar for a few drinks. By 1 am the club had opened its doors and Jenny, Veronica and maybe another fifty people had walked into it. Among those people were the two women they had seen in the restaurant. Veronica had gone to the bathroom and left Jenny in charge of watching the two wome...

Jenny looked out the window where the rain had been falling constantly for the last half an hour. The road slowly climbed the green hills of the Appalachian Mountains. Jenny hadn’t been back to the birthplace of her mother in almost two years and she hadn’t missed it. The poverty, the weather, and the dirty little shacks people called houses made her sick. Veronica hadn’t been back either in years. She and Jenny sat in th...

Dan could hear his mother walking up and down the corridor outside his room. She was cleaning and soon the vacuum cleaner would start again which was the moment Dan wanted to squirt his load. That way he could moan without his mother hearing him. He stood right behind the thin curtains behind the window facing the backyard. Below was his sister Sara and her friend Karla. Both girls were doing gymnastics on the grass dress...