Day: August 7, 2026

After seven dates, she told
him she loved him.

He told her he loved her too,
but a week later,

as though the fun was done,
the love no longer new,

she said she’d been confused,
and she left him for another.

But that was her modus operandi –
love them and leave them.

Bob Boyd

In his late teens he learned he
had a knack for playing a guitar
and singing rock songs.

He formed a rock band with two
high school friends, and after
high school they played in local
bars and wrote their own music.

A year later, they had a hit record
and toured the country, playing
before thousands of cheering fans.

He was high on the fame, the fans,
and the women, but after a couple
of years and no more hit records,
the fame high waned, and he got
tired of always being on the road.

He quit the band and went to work,
managing one of his father’s pet stores,
never missed his semi-rockstar fame.

Bob Boyd

He met her in a dream,
a pretty woman with black hair,
blue eyes, and a nice smile.
She said her name was Adaline,
and she worked making donuts
in a donuts shop.

Though a dream, Adaline seemed
real life, but she turned into
a psycho woman,laughed like an
evil maniac, and raised a knife
above her head to stab him with.

He woke up horrified, and it
took a minute before he
realized it had only been
a nightmare, and he hadn’t
been stabbed.

He thought he dreamed of the
evil donut woman because
he had been wanting a donut
from the donuts shop not far
from where he lived before
he went to bed that night. But
he was too tired to drive to it.

He drove to the donuts shop that
morning. Police cars were all
around it, and it was closed.
Later on the nightly news, he
learned a new female employee
named Adaline had gone crazy and
stabbed the shop owner to death.
She looked like the Adaline in his
dream, and, luckily, he never saw
her in a dream again.

Bob Boyd