Jetine

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I have 4 stories published in one collection on the site.
My stories have been read 1738 times and one story has been cherrypicked.

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Coming Home

I moved home, bleakly packing my belongings into blue bins and black garbage bags. He met me at the corner, his picked-clean arms grabbing the bins' handles and slocking them into

Speeding Ticket

I got a speeding ticket the other day, whipping too quickly around a corner, divebombing the blackness of an unlit country road and officer PJ Hearn and his badged buddy u-turned to follow my naked white rental.

Love Affair

You dragged the smoke through the crack of your lips. These actions, like any others, seemed simple, easily readable, yet, as always, were brilliantly contrived. You hated smoking and you missed the tube of chapstick you forgot on the subway.

The Mailbox

I pick the mailbox up and it's like barely hurt, really. I just sort of bent the post and the door's not looking quite right, but you know, we didn't have to worry about it right then because it's dark. I put it up, arrange it a bit, my back to her, and then turn around to be all Jeopardy like and be like, 'Hey, look at what I did? Your wonderful future boyfriend who's great in bed and loves children just picked up and put the mailbox I drove over back into the ground. Ain't I great?' I turn around, big smile, arms held out. She's not there. I sort of spin around, you know like, "Where the hell did she go and what the hell am I doing here? Is this Wonderland? Did someone kidnap her suddenly and pull her into the bushes? Does she need my help? Will she want me to help her after I ran over her mailbox? Is that an analogy she's going to use to break up with me in 6 months? 'Dating you has been the equal of you running over my mailbox.' Is she going to say, 'I should have known after you ran over my mailbox that you were a complete and total loser, and hey, you're balding'?