"A slip that cost him everything."
"Mind if I light a smoke?" he asked."Isn't that what you came for in the first place?" she queried back.He chuckled, nervously fidgeting with the pack, checking one last time if anyone he knew was there like a teenager who'd...
The bedroom is all set up: candles lit, house deserted, cat on her nightly tour.Looking forward to the great midnightly spectacle, I check the pendulum clock on the wall: Friday, 11.58 pm—the perfect time. All is set up as instructed.I'm...
He comes home early. Door's locked.Strange.Calls for his wife from the hallway—no reply. Groceries? Not her usual time.Upstairs, bedroom, he figures, taking a nap—not there either. A suspicious movement in the corner of his eye—the garden!Huh? Naked? Dancing seductively? Why? Sinking feeling. A...
"Her place is haunted... by a self-conscious spirit."
“Fuck, I should have known better,” Ella muttered under her breath, reaching for the bag of breakfast cereals, “than to—Argh!—let a ghost have his way with me.” She slammed the door of the cupboard with determined frustration. “And a desperate...
"Gotta tell you something," she hesitated, nervousness obvious, avoiding his gaze in shame. "I stuff my bra—got really small boobs.""That's okay. I prefer flat-chested girls," he replied, equally uncomfortable with his upcoming confession, voice cracking, trailing off: "I, uh, have......
"An experience that prevents them from moving on."
I walk over the cool meadow, the dewy blades of grass sliding between my naked toes, the pleasant dampness wetting my soles. You lie in the sun as you always do, patiently waiting for me, gaze fixed to the sky....
"Kiss me," croaked the frog.Took him in my hands; noticed the prominent crown on his head.How do fairytale princesses keep missing obvious details? Superficial tarts!"Kiss me, fair damsel."He stared at my cleavage. Definitely a dude. Rolled my eyes."Kiss me," begging.I...
"She died under mysterious circumstances—or did she?"
“Dude, you gotta see this,” Pat said. “Fresh meat.”I rolled my eyes. There were several ways of coping with being constantly surrounded by death and putrefaction, the perks of working in the morgue-slash-autopsy of the forensics department. Pat just had...
"One man's pain is the next man's pleasure? Sure, but what if pleasure is derived from the pain?"
Tremendous fascination can be found in spices—take capsaicin. While leaving most other living species indifferent, it induces sharp, lasting pain in mammal mucus. Owing to these features, it has found widespread use in agronomy against rodent pests or as doping...
"Nothing says 'promotion' quite like the 'privilege' of becoming your boss' personal assistant."
The day was especially quiet—not that much happened in those cubicles anyway but on this particularly bland day when even the clouded sky tried to blend in with the monotonous gray of the city's concrete jungle. The office was so...