Stories by Claudia

Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
CHAPTER SEVEN
“Then let’s take the Brits suggestion and have dinner,” Jill’s brother, Steve said. “They won’t miss us. By the time we get back, they should have settled down a little bit.”
“We’ll get them dinner too?” Jacob asked.
“Shit, you’re paying,” Steve said.
Jacob laughed.
They were half-way [...]

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Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
CHAPTER SIX
Disaster in the form of a honeybee
On impulse, he slipped his arm around her. When Jill leaned into him, their eyes caught with a jolt of electricity. She lifted her chin and his mouth made an easy journey toward her luscious lips. Their lips were almost touching [...]

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The glow of the monitor displays outlined Rebecca Hargreaves’ grief stricken profile.  Her shoulders slumped under the weight of her guilt.  She scooted the hard blue plastic chair closer to her daughter Alex’s bed in the Intensive Care Unit of St. Joseph’s Hospital in Denver Colorado.
As if in a trance, Rebecca watched the lights bounce [...]

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Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
CHAPTER FIVE - The non-date
“I haven’t been here in a long time,” Jacob said.
He turned right from Twenty-third Avenue into the Denver Zoo then took an immediate right into a parking lot.
“You can’t park here,” Jill said. “This parking is only for….”
Jacob waved a white security card in from of [...]

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Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
CHAPTER FOUR
The non-date looms….

“Four more hours.”
Jacob tapped his alarm clock to make sure it was working. In four hours, seven minutes, and thirty seconds, he would pick up Jill and Katy for a trip to the zoo.
Sick of staring at the ceiling, Jacob got out of bed. Sarah, his three-year-old [...]

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