Dreams

"What'd you expect? I am who I am."

With a scowl she looked down at him sprawled across the weathered porch, a cigar box guitar across his lap. He knew to say more now would elicit a sharp slap across his perspiring jaw.

"You got chores, Bo. Get off your butt and get out in that field."

Slowly he rose, put the instrument down gingerly, and peered at the rich delta loam between his toes. He reached for a gunny sack and turned toward endless rows of cotton shimmering in the heat.

I'm gonna be somebody, he thought. I am.

From Guest Contributor Fred Miller

Fred is a California writer. Over fifty of his stories and poems have appeared in publications around the world in the past ten years. Many may be seen on his blog.

Mutiny

Stan dragged Selena by the elbow through the front door of the mansion house. They both knew something was wrong. There wasn't anyone to be seen, not even a body, as if the house had been abandoned.

"Looks like we have a mutiny on our hands." Stan slapped her across the face, but the sting was worth getting him to lower his mask of detachment. Stan forced her up to Richard's office and locked her in the closet.

"I'll come back for you later."

Selena sat down on a stack of unread books and plotted her escape.Part Ten