"When an western boy met an eastern girl - a romance."
By the cold blue light of the Winter moon, two small figures ran hand in hand into the undergrowth as the snow continued to fall all around them.The girl turned to her best friend and pressed a finger to her...
"Holidays always call for family and the usual"
Tony banged on the bathroom door as I emptied my stomach for the third time. "Are you okay?" he asked."Go away!" I yelled as I kneeled over the toilet. "I don't want to talk to you!""We can talk about this,"...
"Husband is given live updates about his wife's behaviour. But surely she won't go too far...?"
I don't know what started me having the absurd fantasies about Gina--certainly nothing comes to mind when I think back to it now. We were just a normal couple: we were dating for a year before we moved in together;...
"He's sixteen. His parents go on summer vacation. Two weeks with a babysitter? Blegh! ...or is it?"
“But, Mooommm,” the way I stressed the last 'm', the tone came out a lot whinier than I had intended. “I don't need a babysitter. I'm sixteen!”We were standing in the doorway, my parents ready to leave.“Our point exactly,” she...
"Staci's life starts to get better or worse, she can't decide which"
It had been four months since I started my new job as a teacher. It felt good to be back in the school system, even though it was way out of my area of expertise. I usually taught English or...
""It's getting stronger...""
It was an unseasonably cold night in October and Amber Shelton had had a bad feeling.She would have them from time to time, the bad feelings. When she was a little girl she would call them her feels. They were...
"Michael suffers the cruelest cut of all."
I have always hated hospitals. Loathed them, in fact; the clinical aromas, the sterile feel, the gloomy atmosphere, the poker-faced staff. I would have given anything to be miles away from the damned place.As of this moment, however, I had...
Making love and fucking may reference the same thing, but they have two very different meanings, to me anyways. And I want both. I need both. I need you to understand.Say the words out loud. The way the words flow...
"Between apartments."
I took the leftover cheese, crackers, and wine back to the kitchen. There wasn’t much wine left, so I poured the remainder into my glass, then put the bottle in with the recyclables. I hummed a folk tune while I...
"Hope continues to tease..."
Two weeks had passed since my wife and I had moved into her sister's house. The move from Florida to Texas was a big one, but so far it had paid off. Hope had got me a job with one of...
