"Fuck that. Over the next 24 hours, they will be."
I open my eyes. My cell-phone’s alarm is crowing me good morning with a cockerel sound-effect it’s never emitted before. 9am on a Saturday. Normal wake-up time. Room’s normal too – so’s the light, the temperature… But something – I...
"One love, mon."
It was like a dream, so long ago, so far away, as if it took place on another planet but, really, I guess it could have taken place during the last twenty-four hours.0 0 0 0A cool breeze was blowing...
"A skald must pay her debts to a man. She gives him an experience neither will ever forget."
It was dark by the time I got to the farm, the gravel crunching under my tyres. I wondered how I would have found this place if I did not have the GPS location in the Sat Nav. Across a...
"In the quest for success, can one go too far?"
She paced up and down enough that her silhouette was visible from outside her office. Nerves wracked her being as the moment of fulfilment was near.The promise.Yes, the promise she made to her subordinates a month prior. Sub-par performances for...
"Wish-fulfilling perversion of the neighbors."
My cigarette dangled as I poured another glass of whiskey (vodka? gin?). I watched Tony and Cassy from the window above my sink of unwashed dishes, kissing by their new mini-van; all smiley and bouncy. They weren’t as virtuous as...
""We need to learn to love ourseves first..." John Lennon"
It was a cabin in the Ozarks where two friends lived and shared their solitary lives. Mariah had a fairly new relationship with Lorraine. The ladies had met at a local fair where both were selling objects they had made of...
It happens to everyone. That moment you glance across the crowded room, and suddenly your pupils lock with a sinful pair of azure eyes. The stranger's razor cheekbones highlight the devilish grin sliding into place. He holds a whisky glass...
"A young professor is troubled by vivid dreams of his favorite student."
It’s not even true winter yet, and my studio apartment is hopelessly chilly as if the street lamp outside the paper-thin window is the source of all the world’s cold. Researching my graduate thesis in Magical Realism, reading the lush...
"Will you answer the siren's call?"
He sat in the front of his ship, fiddling with the teal flower between his fingers, rubbing the petals as the movements of the sea rocked him from side to side. He felt the salty air burn his nostrils as...
