Joanna walked through the dark streets as she ran home, her heart beating and the lungs burning from the effort. Rubber soles of their slippers against the bright, wet and wet pavement of a sudden rain. A few drops were still dropping now. The young woman was grateful for the drops of rain that had wet her hair and her …

Ted and Janie hadn't planned what happened at the last New Year's party. They hadn't planned to bring the New Year as they did. They haven't been to a New Year's Eve party for years. From her older daughter, Ellie was twelve, they decided that she could baby sit her two younger girls, Tina, nine and Kandy, five. Of …