Categotry Archives: Serialists
Suzie’s House 553 : Among Friends
“So, why are you really here?” Sophie gave Pete and Gabe a couple of days to come clean. When all they did was camp out in her son’s old room and look like they were trying too hard to stay positive, she laid it on the line. “You aren’t really crashing with us as a form of vacation. Right? Why are you here?”
Suzie’s House 550 : So, We Can Come Back?
Suzie glanced out the front window about half an hour after she and the rest had come back from their picnic in the quary to find her favorite kids all milling around on the sidewalk in front of the house, casting looks of yearning and frustration. She immediately went to the front door and opened it wide.
Suzie’s House 549 : Kate’s Place
Kate and her besties, Katy and Alisha, sat on the plush carpet of her bedroom with poker cards in their hands and fits of giggles that wouldn’t stay down. “We’re so baaaad!” Alisha bumped shoulders with Kate and unleashed another torrent of giggles. “I know! Right? We’re the worst!” Katy smirked as she threw down a card. “hit me.” “Hit me? Isn’t that what you say in, like, Pinochle? That’s not as daring as Poker.” Alisha capitalized her words with […]
Suzie’s House 548 : At Bruce’s Place
As Bruce stepped into his house, his fathers pride and joy – a tower of empty beer cans – crashed to the floor. One of the cans even shot out of the living room to the little entry hall where he and his band mates stood. He couldn’t have been any more mortified.
Suzie’s House 547 : At Justin’s Place
They heard it before they got there. Some crazy jam session was going on with a lot more than just a drum or two and some guitars and maybe a didgeridoo. Though muffled by walls, it made his fingers twitch. Bruce had never been to Justin’s place before. Until Tracy walked up to the door, he had more than half hoped it was just some stranger’s house. If it didn’t belong to Justin, then Bruce didn’t have to envy the […]
Suzie’s House 546 : Emma’s Place III
“Wait. Just. One. Minute.” Pete glowered at her. “Are you assuming that either of us has ever had intimate relations with your husband? Just become we are gay does NOT mean we are loose! Either one of us.” “Speak for yourself,” Gabe muttered. But then he ruined the sarcasm with a gentle smile directed at Emma’s mother. “Honey, we love your husband dearly, but not like that. Alright?”
Suzie’s House 545 : At Emma’s Place II
Sophie was half tempted to step out of the bathroom in nothing but a towel. Though it wasn’t as muggy lately as it had been over Summer, she still would have liked to dry off a bit more before getting dressed. But she could hear voices from the living room. Probably, Emma’s friends had come over. Though it was nice to see that her shy, awkward daughter had friends, it was a bit of a pain entertaining them all the […]
Suzie’s House 541 : Picnic
“Are you sure this is the right place?” Miranda was completely unimpressed by the rock quarry. Not that she’d been expecting a picnic table or anything. “Fits with the direction he was headed when I got out of the camper.” Vin looked around, too, but probably not with comfort in mind.
Suzie’s House 537 : Quarry
By the time Demyan Petrovich felt in the mood for pulling over, the sun had long since set. He’d been thinking delicious thoughts about the terror in the law agent he’d captured in his camper. He imagined the man looking at the body of his previous victim with growing fear and impotency. America! What a place. Now that his cousin’s wife’s uncle sat in the White House he could get away with anything. Even if arrested, he’d be pardoned right […]
Suzie’s House 534 : Back to the Crib
Emma didn’t want to go home. You’d think after so long she’d either get over it or not feel it anymore – that reluctance to go to the place she was supposed to belong. And she did belong. Mostly. But here she was shuffling her feet as she made her way from Gene’s house. It felt like she’d been kicked out of her real home even though she never slept there or left things there or anything. It wasn’t really […]
Suzie’s House 523 : Shoes
“How much longer are they going to be here?” Miranda glared into the hall through which the old couple had exited minutes before. “As long as it takes.” Suzie pulled a roll of cookie dough out of the refrigerator and started slicing. “Takes for what? To worm they way into the house as permanent honorary members?” Suzie didn’t bother to respond, which only made Miranda all the more insecure. She knew she wasn’t exactly being generous, but she felt like […]
Suzie’s House 512 : PDA
“I don’t like it,” Gene mumbled to Tracy as they sat across from each other at a long table in the lunchroom. He could see a dozen girls looking at him from different parts of the room. Normally he’d have focused on the others at their table instead, but none of them had shown up yet. “Just ignore them.” Tracy shoved her sandwich into her mouth like she couldn’t care less, but Gene knew she’d been getting looks from guys […]
Suzie’s House 509 : Overheard Identity
“Hey, look it this!” A girl standing next to a locker down the hall showed her smart phone to another girl. “I heard it’s a band made up of people from our school.” Though faint from distance and tinny from the phone’s speaker, Emma could tell for sure it was her band, her song, and her video being shared. Next to her, Kate giggled knowingly. “Hah! It’s already working.” Kate fished her phone out of her bag. She pulled up […]
Suzie’s House 418 : Talent
Justin drifted out of the living room where most of his aunts and some cousins and his mother were planning a baby shower. He passed the den where most of his uncles sat in front of the TV watching a football game in re-runs and acting like they’d never seen it before. Someone in the kitchen started tapping out a rhythm with a spoon on a bottle. Justin just naturally drifted that direction. Sure enough Cousin Joe had a beer […]
The Last of the Serialist
With a heavy heart today I announce the end of The Serialists blog hop. We had a good, long run, but I find it is more effort than I have the energy for. We have seen a lot of great serials here since the hop began. From Science Fiction to Horror to my own mainstream romance, we’ve had it all. I have loved every minute of it. I will be keeping the links to your serials live through my Serialists […]
