Nikki Torino Wagner
Bio
I know stories. After getting suspended for peddaling my own magazine, in grade school, I started contributing to the local paper's weekly column. In college, I co-edited, and won several awards, for our paper and literary magazine.
Stories (27/0)
Life’s a Drag
The porch door was swinging, and she wasn’t getting up to shut it. The sun made her eyes ache and lit the skin like a match. Her body was flushed and puckered crimson while sweat pooled under armpits, leg and elbow ditches and beneath breasts. The grass had turned brown from being scorched from the Florida heat. There was no breeze and no chance of a rain storm, not even a light shower. Everyone had gone inside, the dog too, but she remained.
By Nikki Torino Wagner6 months ago in Families
House of Wind Book Club
Covid-19. It's not even a sentence yet it elicits a range of complex emotions for most individuals. For me, that virus altered my life thoroughly. The harshness of it, the unpredictability and swiftness took more than health, it took mortality and a chunk of my spirit.
By Nikki Torino Wagner8 months ago in BookClub
Love Bug
Sunlight shone against a wall of bulbous black clouds. It's light reflected through the white laced curtains mam had left open; along with the window to release the thick heat that suffocated the whole room. A warm breeze wafted in scents from the main house. Gumbo and boiled crab mingled with rich perfumes and spicy musk alerting that the guests were arriving and that stomachs were hungry. A trumpet broke the quiet as a musician began to tune his instrument then the rest of the band joined in. The sound breaking the trance that had been holding Bee.
By Nikki Torino Wagner9 months ago in Fiction
What I Learned at Church
Gabby and Simon had abadoned their trays of spaghetti to listen to my plan. I took a bite of my peanut butter and jelly sandwich, watching their expressions give away their thoughts. Simon's cunning, but Gabby looked like a cartoon character, eyes popping.
By Nikki Torino Wagner10 months ago in Fiction
