The Insomniac Writer

Double post today since I’ve been behind. Hope you enjoy.
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                Chase absentmindedly stirred his coffee while his business partner, Robin Lake, struggled to wind down a business call. Of the fifty or so patrons enjoying brunch at La Duni, only Robin subjected other diners to her phone call. Chase could feel their eyes on him, [...]

                Lauren checked her watch. The time was a quarter past 7 p.m. “Damn it, Stu.”
                The person being damned was one Stuart Lyons, Lauren’s boyfriend and, if everything went well at dinner with her parents, her fiancé. But Stu was late. Stu was always late, and he always had some lame excuse about traffic [...]

                Lisa Trenton stirred her iced tea absentmindedly as she listened to her sister drone on and on about her latest business coup. It wasn’t an uncommon situation, so Lisa often employed such tactics in order to maintain some semblance of sanity. She would just disappear for a short while, imagining herself in the Bahamas, [...]

                Spenser Trent planned to kill himself. His reasons were varied and many, but the solution was as simple as it was cowardly. He would step in front of a bus and put an end to himself. He had considered jumping out in front of a cab, but feared harming the cabbie or his passenger. [...]

Okay, this may not go anywhere, or I may pick it up tomorrow. I’m not making any promises.
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                Kevin Strickland stepped out of the shower and padded across the sandstone to the oval mirror that hung above his wife’s antique vanity. Though he despised the term “metrosexual,” Kevin was a slave to his morning grooming [...]