Short Stories by Lola Nation - Make it Short

She’s Not There - Book Title January 2003, Diablo’s BBQ Party, WLA Chapter:   Too Late to Say you’re Sorry             Diablo was drunk.   He was hosting a barbecue during the Sunday football game, as was the norm.   The party was predominantly his friends and some she’d known before him, but always they’d been his friends.     Sarah had no friends at this point, she’d either abandoned them for Diablo or they’d abandoned her due to her relationship with Diablo.             Earlier that afternoon, Sarah was frustrated because everyone who attended the party was doing coke in and out of what she considered their bedroom.   Diablo dismissed her complaints, accusing her of being jealous.   She let it go.   He was drunk there was no reasoning with him.     At one point during the party, she’d gone into the restroom, the...

No one told me about her Chapter 1 Sarah’s living room, March 2003.             Sarah bent over the glass table in her living room and did a line of speed.  Seth was doing a line of coke off of a CD and Elijah was balancing between both their drugs.  “I need to tell you guys something so I don’t do it.”  She said.  She wished she hadn’t gained their attention but she couldn’t help but confess.  If they told her it was a bad idea, she wouldn’t do it in May when Diablo’s family went down to Mexico for the family picnic.  If she told them, rumors could start and there was no way she’d have the nerve to do it.  “Ever since Diablo beat the shit out of me, I’ve been thinking of getting him back.  The only thing he cares about is his money.”  She said. Seth set down the CD case on her table, followed slowly by the straw.  Elijah...