MJ10

Turning Up the Heat/Reality Check

by MJ10

Chapter 9 in Changing the grade

"What were you thinking?" Mr. Doe looks at Nadia with a mixture of confusion and anger. "You walked into gang-infested neighborhood? Was somebody with you? Please tell me somebody was with you." Nadia shakes her head. "You got some balls, young lady." The teacher paces...

Day Two/Scrubbing Bubbles

by MJ10

Chapter 13 in Changing the grade

"What's this?" Becky glances at the gray wire-rim brush in her hand. "You're doing bathrooms today." Christina is nonchalant. "Hope you brought gloves." Becky glances at her virgin-or not so virgin--hands. "Is it just me?" She looks at her master. "Three be...

Col. Fisher's Story

by MJ10

Chapter 3 in Into the Breach

Colonel Al Fisher, A.Y. pours himself a brandy and sips as he looks over the glistening pink sheen of the Potomac. He spies the seagulls diving over the water, snatching their evening's prey. The military man smirks and laughs into his drink. *They sure do have it easy, d...

Lt. Kane's Story

by MJ10

Chapter 3 in Into the Breach

Lt. Trisha Kane, A.Y. sits calmly outside her superior's office, reading *Stars and Stripes*, glancing occasionally at the robins chirping outside the window. Every so often she checks the blouse of her Army uniform for specks of food or dirt. Cleanliness being next to Go...

Mayor Edward's Story

by MJ10

Chapter 3 in Into the Breach

Mayor Charles Edwards puts on his spectacles. He stares at the phone for several minutes, apprehensive about picking it up. He could veto a dozen bills a day and go toe-to-toe with the thorny city council--he doesn't care. Edwards glances at a photo of him side by side wit...

Rebekah's Story

by MJ10

Chapter 3 in Into the Breach

Ever since she was a teenager, Rebekah Edwards has always wanted one thing. She's hoped for it, wished for it, prayed for it. Yet with each passing year she seems no closer to getting her wish: A daughter she can cradle in her arms, coo over, and play with. Her husband, her moth...

The Punishment Begins

by MJ10

Chapter 12 in Changing the grade

"Here are the rules." Christina holds up her stopwatch for all to see. "When I press start, you get on your hands and knees on the kitchen floor and start cleaning. If I catch the three of you talking amongst yourselves or colluding in any way, that's an extra hour tacked to you...

Main Characters

by MJ10

Chapter 2 in Into the Breach

CHARACTERS: Rebekah Edwards Race: Caucasian Age: 35 Height: 5'4" Weight: 135 Hair: auburn Eyes: almond Identifying marks: none Bio: As a spouse of Atlanta's mayor, the political wife has had a f...

Introduction

by MJ10

Chapter 1 in Into the Breach

Title: “Into the Breach” PLOT: In a post-apocalyptic US, eight brave souls struggle to survive in a dystopian future. Will they survive, or will they succumb to the temptations the brave new world offers them? SETTING: Former United States, near future. Resource Wars ha...

The Cheerleaders beg for mercy

by MJ10

Chapter 11 in Changing the grade

Becky and Dani trail behind Evie, their heads hung low in shame as they approach Christina huddling near her locker. Their shoulders slumped in defeat they appear anything but the victorious trio of a few weeks before. Yet their de facto leader holds her head high, putting on a...

Bar Crawlin' Blues

by MJ10

Chapter 11 in Changing the grade

Evie surveys the dozen or so middle aged men in the restaurant, they of the herringbone shirts and tweed jackets that scream academia. Their eyes are glued to the screen overhead. Whatever it is, it must be exciting. But she can’t tell, no thanks to the din of Gaelic music pipin...

White Nights, Black

by MJ10

Chapter 10 in Bound Gals

Elena whispers softly to herself, repeating the words in the travel dictionary as though they are from an ancient text. She grips her seat tightly as the car jerks and lurches her forward, causing her to cease her study and focus on holding on. She spies a man a few feet down fr...

London Fog

by MJ10

Chapter 10 in Bound Gals

Her teeth chatter as Elena bundles herself in her beige overcoat. Hazy mist shrouds the bridge as though it were gauze. The view would be romantic, if only it were sixty degrees Fahrenheit instead of a rather chilly forty five. Pardon, 15 degrees *Celsius*. Stupid metric system...

Hyde Park Blues

by MJ10

Chapter 10 in Bound Gals

Elena brushes the bangs away as the wind plays with her hair. She gazes at the marbled campus rising in the background between columns of tiny oak trees. From a safe distance it the imposing building looks no different than any other Ivy League campus. Tall, aloof, and disinvit...

Moscow

by MJ10

Chapter 9 in Bound Gals

Elena glances at the piece of paper pensively as she stands in front of -Donna, dossiers firmly in hand. Her lips tremble. She’d been used to Donna as a mentor, even lover. But more than ever this dreary summer morning, she struck the intern as nothing more than a headmistre...

London

by MJ10

Chapter 9 in Bound Gals

Elena glances at the piece of paper pensively as she stands in front of -Donna, dossiers firmly in hand. Her lips tremble. She’d been used to Donna as a mentor, even lover. But more than ever this dreary summer morning, she struck the intern as nothing more than a headmistr...

Chicago

by MJ10

Chapter 9 in Bound Gals

Elena glances at the piece of paper pensively as she stands in front of -Donna, dossiers firmly in hand. Her lips tremble. She’d been used to Donna as a mentor, even lover. But more than ever this dreary summer morning, she struck the intern as nothing more than a headmistre...

The Initiation

by MJ10

Chapter 10 in Bound Gals

Elena wins

by MJ10

Chapter 9 in Bound Gals

The intern watches with baited breath as -Myra hovers over her and -Jess, lips pursed as if she’s about to hand out an Academy Award. She crosses her fingers. _Please let it be me_. -Myra clears her throat dramatically. “Game’s over. And by my count, t...

The Initiation

by MJ10

Chapter 8 in Bound Gals