"How a real encounter in the school changing rooms could have been very different"
When I was in my final year of secondary school, year eleven, I became a Sports Prefect. Apart from being something good to add to my CV, the role brought extra responsibilities, such as helping the teachers with running sports...
"To consummate their mysterious meeting there seems but one thing to do."
I try not to shake as his hands slip over my shoulders, his body close to mine while he watches me, his mask now gone, abandoned somewhere on our journey between the ballroom and here. A dark room that smells...
"Love is stronger than fear."
Around they swirl,Faster and faster.Closer they draw,Loathing, self-doubt and insecurity. Tottering on the edge, I can't seem to resist.Their seductive pull,Luring me in. NO!His voice rings clear.Hands strong and firm,Pulling me from the brink. Mine! Beautiful! Strong!His words break through.The fears that swirled,Fading quickly away. Calm...
"To trust or not to trust "that" was the question."
CHAPTER 10Her tears ran riot for the entire hundred miles back to Phoenix. Her husband would be out of town for the next two days—a sudden business something or other—but he was on the cell and ready to join her...
"“His life was a perfect graveyard of buried hopes.”"
CHAPTER 7The next nights all I could think about was him screwing her. In my mind’s eye I could see the kids, Sarah and Mia, running into the house and calling for him: “daddy, daddy!” I was sick at heart...
"A writer encounters an unknown entity in the woods... or did she?"
“I was sixteen and had run away from home...”Delete “I had married young after getting pregnant…”Delete“Ernie found me cold and hungry wandering the streets…”Delete“Grrr… I hate writers block!”Even though I was sitting alone in my office, I was talking out...
"We met around sunset on a Monday night, we exchanged numbers and the rest was up to us."
Under a star-filled night,Two strangers meet for the first timeNot knowing what to expect.They begin talkingFinding out each others'Deepest secrets,Worst fears.Crying together,Laughing together,Falling together,Hearts beating as oneTheir lips falling closer and closer.Hands shaking, knees weak,Butterflies in their bellies,Dancing around to the...
"Friendship, like the Phoenix, can rise from the ashes . . ."
CHAPTER 23: I was literally shaking. I was terrified. The man strode in major concern in his look. “Jim, the nurse told me. Have you heard anything else?” said my ex-best friend.“No, no, not yet... Rodney...” I started, but paused....
"Friends in need are friends indeed."
CHAPTER 21: “So he seemed to soften a little? Is that what you’re saying?” said Claire.“Yes, sort of. He said he’d think about things. And I think he will. He has her to think about now too not just himself....
"Emotions that master us"
Worry —What help have you ever been to me?Why then are you so ever present in my thoughts?So many journeys begin with you,Always destined to end with your friends here below.Not one thing do you add or enhanceNever improving the...