"Fate - A power believed to control what happens in the future. Sometimes fate can be an attractive woman."
After finishing my workout at the gym, I wait for my coffee at the Grind'in Coffee shop. That's when Eve and I first noticed each other. The shop is extremely busy with no place to sit and little standing space....
"A woman encounters her former headmistress after more than thirty years and some things are relived"
Judith Saunders was a fifty-two-year-old divorcee and she was sitting in her hairdressers reading a magazine, having arrived early for her appointment. She was sitting in the area near reception and did not look up from the magazine when the...
"Lauren goes for coffee, meets Kara and changes both their lives."
I remember one morning, I was standing in line for coffee. It wasn't my usual place and I was killing time before a very boring meeting. The woman at the counter was dealing with a very confused pair of women who...
"This is one of my favourite (pre-lockdown) fantasies."
It is Saturday afternoon, and I walk down Oxford Street, which is thronged as usual with busy shoppers. It is a warm day, and the sun feels good on my skin. I am wearing a cute red eighties rah-rah skirt...
"Strangers meet in the frozen food aisle in a supermarket and end up in bed"
When Michael Brogan entered the frozen food aisle in his local supermarket the first thing that caught his eye was those buttocks. The buttocks were in tight green trousers and they belonged to a female bending over to reach an...
"No worries, we will be up all night"
They take a booth in the diner and order coffee. The end of a first date."It's been fun. You're cool," he says.Her hand extends slowly. "You rock, too," she smiles, fingers tickling his thigh.His hand hesitantly touches hers, moving fingers in a questing dance."I've never...
We sat at our usual corner table where we met every Friday to smoke and drink coffee and catch up on each other's lives or just make each other laugh.More often than not though these days, my mind would begin to wander and...
"'We all touch the flames at least once to prove they're hot.’ - Richelle E. Goodrich"
The unctuous sales pitch droned on and on; the view’s fantastic, the location amazing, nothing like it on our books, yadda yadda yadda.Seething, a sarcastic ‘shaddap your face’ nearly escaped, for cloying words don’t suck me in. Those pristine silica...
It’s that hour of the morning for which she insists on perfect silence. She sits on the cramped balcony sketching on a large pad propped on her knee. The door is open and down in the street there are car...
"Freedom for a morning."
My fingers brush the handle of her doorThe bright coloured lettering, my usual morning read.Then I remember she’s at Grandma’s.My fingers slip away again.Coffee in peace… Unusual.The threat of the buzz of the coffee machineneutralised for just one morning. Pad of...
