The diamond wasn't anything amazing. That's what made it so painful.

Bartlette emitted a low-level but steady whine from her mother's arms. She had sprouted a tooth, and along with it a temperature and a rash on her bottom.

The maddening indifference approach has only one serious drawback - it usually doesn't work. Three days had passed, and Charlie had not so much as delivered a pizza.

The doorbell rang when Amy thought it would. About a day and a half had passed since she last talked to Charlie on the phone.

Never feed plums and chocolate-covered coffee beans to a seven-month-old baby. The result, Amy was learning, is explosive. Amy had been on the phone...

Oprah said it, and it was true: What I know for sure is that there is no strength without challenge, adversity, resistance, and often pain. Equally ...

She knew it was too good to be true: free pizza and a man with buttocks so smooth and ripe under lycra they looked like they were shaped by Michelange...

Each letter made Amy feel wistful and regret that her life's lessons dovetailed so closely with self-denial. But she and Charlie had agreed before he left. No strings.

Sometimes God smiles. The clouds of fate part, and for a moment, sunshine pours through, sweet and warm and golden. He was at the door. Charlie. And ...

Amy was on the desperate side of midnight. Her silky kimono robe smelled of breast milk vomit. Her hair looked like a bird's nest. She felt like scre...

Charlie stood in the sunset's orange wash -- a heavenly-lit incongruous mix of well-sculpted manhood, cheap costuming and convenience food.

Love is like a personalized parking space. You can put any car you want in there, but there's only one name on the asphalt.

I Amy returned to bedlam. Carmen and Ferguson were engaged in hand-to-hand combat over Ibey the rubber ibex. Ferguson wanted to behead him, and Carme...

Wine, cheese, olives, more wine. They talked. He listened. She felt tipsy. She knew she was really enjoying herself, enjoying being herself.

She was trying to cheer up Amy even though Amy was already feeling happy. This made no sense at all - except if you were Eustazia.

G Cosmetic surgery was out of the question. Too expensive. For that matter, so was a new bra. However. If you could take out a mortgage to pay for ...

Ferguson had a hard poo. He grunted on the toilet like a baby mastodon. Unnh! Unnh! The poo wouldn't come out, and so his grunts grew more impassioned. And desperate.

A is for Amy & Adonis is a comic story of romantic redemption. The aim is to provide a fun and fast read with characters you can connect to emotionally.

For those who are new here, A is for Amy & Adonis is a comic story of romantic redemption. The aim is to provide a fun and fast read with characters you can connect to emotionally.

Adonis wasn't his real name. Duh. Amy being stupid again. That was the downside. The upside was, she liked his real name better: Charlie.

Out of sight, their hands met. Skin touched skin. A synaptic frenzy spread up her forearm, spiking tiny fair hairs to attention. It's a comic story of romantic redemption. The aim is to provide a fun and fast read with characters you can connect to emotionally.

A is for Amy & Adonis is a comic story of romantic redemption. The aim is to provide a fun and fast read with characters you can connect to emotionally.