KaBooM62's Story Time

THE LADIES AND THE GIRLS by Karen Bremer Masuda How long will it take for the doctor to see me? This waiting room is full. I slump down in the chair next to the bench and glance down the row of people sitting there. I grab a magazine and sigh, I shift around in my seat and am suddenly very conscious... Sign in to see full entry.

From the beginning they fought or rather she fought him. No matter what he did she was angry with him. When he told everyone at his new school during his formal self introduction that his mother was in prison for stabbing a man and now he was staying with an auntie, and who did everyone think was... Sign in to see full entry.

Half the Same Blood by Karen Bremer Masuda Natsumi and Natsuki said good-bye so many times that Natsumi knew she’d lost count. This had to be the last time for a long while at least. The first time was like a jewel, a shimmering diamond, before the complications that being lovers brings. He had been... Sign in to see full entry.

If he had saved her she didn’t seem to notice. She looked at him with blank dark eyes. The rustle of their perspective palm branch coverings was proof that they were both awake and aware of the other. The hand he had grabbed had looked florescent, he could still see it, that hand was the only thing... Sign in to see full entry.

Cody came to Thailand for a lot of reasons. Bangkok was a place where he could lose himself, but Krabi was more. In Bangkok he was lost and found all at once. He could stay in a dirt cheep guest house or even rent a cot in a big room of cots for almost nothing. He could be nobody, wander the city,... Sign in to see full entry.

The Size of the Wave by Karen Bremer Masuda The white hand flailed at the waters foamy surface waving a lifeless wave. The whiteness of it was almost florescent compared to the dirty white of the foam. The strength of the rushing water pushed the hand up out of the water to the elbow forcing it into... Sign in to see full entry.

I'm giving it a miss folks, today I won't post a story. The Size of the Wave is the title of the next story I will post, but not right now. I just can't. Think I will go lie down instead. Hey, you know, the last story I posted, Home to Light Breeze? I just finished that a couple of days ago. It is... Sign in to see full entry.

Going Home to Light Breeze by Karen Bremer Masuda “Take care of what you can.” This is what Takeshi’s mother always told him, what she never let him forget. Things were quiet at the moment at Blue Sky Temporary facility for the aging. Mrs. Yamamoto’s head had toppled forward into a temporary doze,... Sign in to see full entry.

Benevolent Brother by Karen Bremer Masuda When he entered the room the door slammed shut, caught by a draft. But this building was air tight, wasn’t it? The American Embassy in Tokyo, Japan was air tight no doubt, so why had the door slammed? Jack was so un-nerved by this that he didn’t have time to... Sign in to see full entry.

This last story, Presumed Safe, was the nineteenth that I've posted. I've just kind of posted one story after another so maybe I'll wait a little and give you time to read some of these. I'd love to get comments, I feel like I need to take a breather, but here it is, a little shameless, 'Read me,... Sign in to see full entry.