"Modern technology is truly a marvel."
Her: Hey babe!My phone vibrated noisily with the incoming message. The colleague who was standing at the front of the room shot me a glare but quickly got back to his presentation. I hurried to switch the phone to mute...
"Even after three years at her newest job, Valerie hasn't had an encounter quite this close before..."
Ugh. Managers are the same everywhere.Literally, everywhere, in the entire universe.When I was sixteen, I worked at a supermarket as an underpaid check-out girl. One day, the manager, Mr Schwimmer, came into the staff room (five minutes before my shift...
"Even after three years at her newest job, Valerie hasn't had an encounter quite this close before..."
The bathroom is spacious and well-equipped, but stiflingly humid. The smell of what counts as soap and bath foam on this planet itches in my nose. Several translucent, spider-like creatures scuttle around on the slick floor tiles, drawn to the...
"In desperate times, your body sometimes calls for desperate measures... It's time to listen."
"Hey, Case,“ was all my sister said as she hugged me, graciously ignoring the sweat and the travel-stains I was sporting. I was very aware that I was painting a generally unappealing image standing on her front step in crocs...
"Campus Security adopts more rigorous measures"
I looked down at my phone, pretending to swipe and type every now and again – you know, like any other normal student in this rather unspectacular lecture on political sociology – but really, the device was showing nothing but...
"When in trouble, call the customer service hotline."
“Thank you for calling the Honeysuckle Ltd telephone information service! This hotline provides information and assistance to all of Honeysuckle Ltd’s business and franchise partners, authorized sellers and customers. Honeysuckle Ltd. specializes in...”“Yeah. Yeah, interesting. Please. Come on, hurry up.”“...mer...
"Two cars, one man, one woman, and one moment in a traffic jam on the autobahn."
It’s only past seven in the evening and still already pitch dark outside the car. The headlights illuminate the fat raindrops that hurl themselves horizontally at the windshield. He is on the autobahn going barely 50 mph in the middle...
"A private session? Private, as in--""One-on-one," Professor Williams said, leading the way into the university's atelier-and-drawing-studio multipurpose room. It was somewhat hidden in the back, behind many corridors and rooms full of workbenches, supply shelves and closets, arts projects, sculptures,...
"My roommate recommends one last sex toy. I should've read the small print before getting started..."
“Ella, come on. Try it. I swear it’s the best.”I give a sigh. How many times had Stacy said these exact words to me within the ten months we had been roommates? And how many times had those words proved...
"It's tough to be patient when you're sitting at the hairdressers."
Before I moved to California, people told me all the time that it would be hot and humid. No one managed to convey to me exactly how unbearable it would be, so a mere four weeks into my new life...