"Jake’s big deal was a bust, but his afternoon is looking up!"
“Hello? Hello? Say, can you hear me, Ray?” The only response to Jake’s increasingly desperate pleas was crackling, akin to water running down the drain, just like this multimillion-dollar deal. He launched his cell phone across the room thinking: So...
"A village woodworker's heroic deeds bring attention and a mysterious visit"
It was not uncommon to see the carriages of the Spire traveling the dusty road that led from the mountain citadel to the riverside village. Drawn by massive horses of pure white, they were elegant vehicles of polished metal and...
"Daisy, nineteen years old, is marooned on a desert island with five men she does not know."
The Cessna 180 came down hard on the water, the waves causing it to buck and pitch. The landing might have been successful had not a pontoon brushed against an unseen outcrop of coral just below the water's surface. The...
"Trouble Sleeping at night"
I was awakened by the sound of people walking down the street outside our house, presumably coming home from a night out. I looked at the neon numbers on the clock over on Jade’s side of the bed, as I...
"I'm glad I slept on the couch."
I think it's only natural to wonder if you'll ever have relations with your roommate, especially one of the opposite sex. I just never thought it would happen to me.It was an average, even boring night. I made myself comfortable on...
"Yoga student Martina offers Nick some private lessons"
I followed Martina into the living room of her small basement flat."Take a seat," she said. "Be with you in mo." She flung her gym bag in the corner and disappeared though a bead curtain into the next room, apparently the bedroom....
"A dowager looks for a bright future."
Part One – Galas and GardensNancy Bates slowly made her way through the well-dressed crowd clustered outside the main ballroom at the Fairmount Hotel Vancouver, waiting to get inside. She spotted her friend up ahead and waved and watched as...
"A beautiful young yoga student teases an older man"
The first time I noticed Martina, she was kneeling on a yoga mat waiting for class to begin. It was a small group, mostly middle-aged ladies, and she stood out straight away as the only other young person in the room....
"It was forty years ago when I first ventured out as Michelle."
It wasn't until I was in my mid-twenties that I plucked up the courage to leave the house dressed as a young woman. Initially, it was short walks to the end of our street (a relatively quiet suburban road in...
"A bullied boy and girl together discover their hidden inner female and male personas"
Louisa and I were of the same age, lived with our mothers only a few streets from each other, and attended the same Secondary school. Yet, we had never met. In the 1950s, the belief that boys and girls should...