When we left Ben a couple of weeks ago, he had just learned that the man who shot Vin is the same man who offered him a ride – or at least so everyone in Suzie’s house thinks. Being in home was all different now that Ben knew what was really going on. Least he knew what was up with the guy who shot Vin anyway. There was something going on between Vin and Miranda, but Ben wasn’t sure […]
I know, it takes me forever to – ehem – come to the point. But I’m there now. So Suzie isn’t here. It’s on the newsletter this week. If you would like to receive this week’s episode and you have not signed up for the newsletter at Suzies_House-Subscribe@Yahoo!Groups.com then please contact me at Alice Audrey 1 @ yahoo . com, without the spaces of course. Provided you are over 18 I will be glad to send it to you. […]
We continue from last week when Miranda went down stairs to check on Vin. Vin explored every facet of Miranda as he kissed her. She smelled of something soft and sensual, not tart or obnoxiously floral like some of her perfume. She tasted sweet and a little musky, and so sexy he could hardly stand it. (Editorial note: Hmmmm… to newsletter, or not to newsletter? That is the question. I think… not, but my younger readers might want to skip […]
Remember how Miranda went stomping upstairs after Vin fell asleep on the couch while she poured out her heart to him? That was the same night Ben walked home from his father’s house. We now return to Miranda shortly after she went upstairs. Yes, it was a busy night. Miranda pulled a nightgown over her head, then adjusted the layers of filmy fabric and demure lace to hang straight from low cut bodice to her bare toes. She opened […]
Remember a few episodes back when Ben came home unexpectedly ; he spoke with “the red-headed man” on the way home from his father’s house ; and Drew and Suzie demanded to know everything; and they told him the red-headed man is the one who shot Vin? We now return to Ben’s bedroom that night. “You haven’t seen him, have you?” Mom looked really close at his face, hers all wrinkled up with concern. She came toward the bed […]
“Sean! Wait up!” Joseph jogged down the night-darkened street toward his brother. He had muttered some lame excuse to Christina and hurried out of the bar. The urgency to warn his brother, to wring from him some sort of promise overwhelmed him. In a way, the feeling tied in with Christina. Something about her sent up red flags. Sean accused him of being paranoid because he had so many premonitions of doom. Maybe he was, but he was also alive […]
“Yeah, but yours is redder,” Christina, mouthed to herself. How stupid could she get? As if how red his hair was mattered to anyone. It was probably the lamest line she’d tried on him yet, and she’d tried some doozies. What did it get her? He couldn’t get out of there fast enough. Christina took a sip of beer, winced, and set it on the old Formica tabletop. She didn’t even like beer, and certainly not in a dive like […]
Joseph O’Connor lifted his Budweiser, looked at the amber brew, and wished it was a black and tan. You couldn’t get Guinness at the Caribou at all, let alone half of the black and half of the tan in a single mug. So what did his brother, Sean, see in the place? “We should have gone to Clancy’s.” “Clancy’s has been closed for years. Besides, this is close to home.” Joseph snorted. “Nothing this side of the pond is close […]
Previously, in Suzie’s House: After having fought their attraction to one another, Drew and Suzie were finally overcoming the barriers between them when Ben, Suzie’s son, came home. Ben was supposed to stay with his father, from whom he is estranged. Ben walked out when he couldn’t get his father to listen to him. “Mom?” Ben tapped on the door to his mother’s office. Funny, she hardly ever closed it. He tried the knob, but it wouldn’t turn. The door […]
Suzie’s head spun. She couldn’t get enough air, probably because she kept forgetting to breathe. If Drew didn’t stop kissing her, she was going to pass out. Of course he wasn’t going to stop kissing her. The way he was slanting his mouth across hers, his tongue toying with her, she was pretty sure he didn’t want to stop any more than she did. She was doomed. She reached up and threaded her fingers into his hair. It was short […]
“I’m going out,” Ben said as he headed for the front door of his dad’s apartment. “Out? Out where?” Dad came out of the kitchen with a dishrag in his hands, which was a real laugh because he hardly ever bothered to do things like wash the dishes. “I don’t know. Just out.” Ben put his hand on the doorknob. He waited a moment, shoulders tense and breath tight, expecting an explosion. “Seems to me you should stick around more. […]
“Dad? Can I talk to you?” Ben sat on one of the old aluminum-tube kitchen chairs and braced his arms on the top of the cracked-linoleum kitchen table. His father liked to joke about all his furniture being OTC – Off The Curb. Ben didn’t think it was so funny. He didn’t really want to have this conversation with his father. He wanted it with his mother. Apparently he wasn’t going to get a chance since Dad wouldn’t let him […]
Every so often I come to a point where I could easily take the Suzie’s House story in a couple of different directions. I am at such a point right now. About a month ago Ash asked for a love scene. I promised to deliver one as quickly as I could arrange it. I believe she was looking for something between Miranda and Vin, but it turns out the first opportunity for one is between Suzie and Drew. Because my […]
Suzie looked so sweet even as she pulled her lower lip in between her teeth and wrinkled her brow in concern. She wore her hair pulled back in a ponytail. Her thin arms crossed in front of her as if she were cold though it must be nearly 80 in the room. She looked small and fragile to him. Drew put his arm across the back of the love seat, using it to turn himself toward her. He wasn’t making […]
Suzie leaned forward, her elbows resting on the top of her desk and her face resting in her hands. She heaved a sigh. Everything she had done today she had done poorly. Making mistakes didn’t really bother her. Not that much, anyway. But dishonorable mistakes haunted Suzie with guilt and regret. Today she’d made a ton of them. Taking the recipe file from Miranda might qualify. But Suzie wasn’t about to remove it from the locked drawer in her desk […]