Stories

SUMMER           Written by and edited By Jessica Pearse  Copy right of nightsliverowl ( Jessica C. M. Pearse) SUMMER  This summer was hot and sticky, and tired of the long day wishing a nightmare to be over.  I was a young woman who thought she knew what love was. My story starts at the age of 26 years old.  Working in a diner nine to five and one nights and on the weekends. Truck drivers pulling in and getting their coffee and having their trucks filled with gas. Hearing all the stories of the road, I could only imagine traveling so far away from home and what it would be like.  After work I would pretend that I could magically send myself to New York and Massachusetts and I would try all the restaurants and the wonderful food and no longer was I bothered with working at a diner. Then I could wear the most wonderful dresses to dance in.  The nights would last and never end. Until my alarm clock wakes me ...