"Reminiscing and saying good-bye prove to be a challenge for Carie and Vasily"
Tuesday EveningCarie made a beeline across the hallway to the opposite apartment with a small cardboard box, a plume of annoyance trailing behind her. Pulsating thrash-techno music had been erupting from inside Apartment Seven for the past hour with the...
"The finale of Red Hot Summer."
David was barely aware of the conversation happening around him, their voices sounding distant and muffled as though heard underwater. He could hardly think anyway. It was like he could feel the blood draining from his head and flowing into...
"The discovery of a mysterious algae causes things to get crazier on Ilha Anjos."
The next afternoon the sun was, once more, high and hot, its light glittering on the surface of the Atlantic and beating down on the boat bobbing up and down on the low waves next to a bright yellow buoy....
"On a mission to study changing climate patterns, a research team gets... distracted."
The sun was high and hot, its light glittering on the surface of the Atlantic and beating down on the cigarette boat cutting through the low waves, piloted by a wizened Brazilian man in a tattered Parrotthead shirt. Inside the...
"Vasily owes Carie after losing a bet"
Wednesday night at the Fawns Over Foxes Ladies Club... Johnny B Good2night stepped through the curtain to the small backstage “launch pad”. Breathing as if he had just ran a mile, he fanned himself with his call sheet, his shirt...
"Mary has a surprise for her friend."
I am sitting at a table outside the coffee shop in the mall. Wearing a white t-shirt with no bra, form fitting blue jeans and black four inch stilettos. I have my shoulder length auburn hair in a ponytail."Hi Tina, it's good...
"It's Carie's turn to use her golden ticket."
Sunday morning... There were very few things in life that surprised Vasily anymore, and fewer things that got a rise out of him. Snow in June, zombies on bicycles, flying pigs...none of those would give him pause. If you Googled...
"Strangers meet at a cottage but end up in a van."
“Now...” The rain came down steadily; heavy sheets of it falling for the last few hours. It had turned the winding cottage roads into obstacle courses with pools of water and large branches and debris strewn across the gravel and...
The next morning, Teaghan walked across the garden towards the house. She passed the hired clean up crew as they tidied the grounds after the party. They had their work cut out for them but they went about their business...
At 2:15 in the morning, Teaghan couldn't think of anything more obnoxious than the sound of an incoming cellphone call. Whether it be the thrashing thrum of “car collision” music, or the velvety voice of the sexiest crooner, or the...