"After a torrid time at her work, Katie needs a change."
I worked at the local Hospital in the supply department, it was a high-pressure job that had at times long hours. Most weeks it ran into six days and some days well over ten hours. When I first took the...
"Two nineteen year-old students find the solitude of island life leads them to lust."
“I think I can see land!” exclaimed Sarah, shielding her eyes from the sun.“Aye, we’ll be ashore in half an oor,” confirmed the skipper, who had overheard the girl’s remark.“I’m relieved it’s calm,” replied Molly. “I’m not a great sailor....
"Life would never be the same..."
Looking back on my life, I find it strange how completely random events have charted the course of my life more than the ones I planned and prepared for. When they happen, I’m almost always unprepared for the outcome. This...
"The hook up was a while in the making, but now . . .its undeniably strong"
Bobbi and James were new office neighbors in our multi-tenant office. James was an affable older fellow, in his fifties and Bobbi, while equally affable, was much younger and unsettlingly cute. James was an appliance installer and Bobbi was his office...
"I found what I had been missing in an unlikely place"
An “Old Soul” – that’s what my English teacher called me. My peers spelled it “S T R A N G E.” Whatever anyone wanted to call my inability to fit in, I called it “painful.” I didn’t enjoy the parties...
"A stranded sex addict's saving grace."
A work assignment had pulled Sai into going to a country that was starting to prosper but riddled with crime. The country that Sai was in led the world in murder rates and was a hotbed for all kinds of...
"Kim was simply an acquaintance with a fast car."
I met Kim through a mutual acquaintance at the apartment complex where we both lived. I was single and between marriage and she as about twenty-one. Kim had a boyfriend who lived at the same complex, but I soon learned...
"Sometimes, you make that connection with nothing more than a smile and wink."
I was visiting the student union where my son goes to college and was simply amazed at all the cute girls going to the college. I’m pretty sure there were some mighty fine-looking women in college back when I attended...
"It pays to advertise"
It was the third time I’d tried this, and I had decided it was going to be the last. I felt pretty silly, riding the subway with an old leather slipper on my knee. But then she sat down opposite...
"Not all is as it seems, in Adam and Eve's garden..."
Did I reek of hypocrisy, standing at my brother’s wedding ceremony thanking God for my lipstick? Not for the colour, rather enjoying that it wasn’t quite up to the task of concealing, when my tongue touched my lips, the molasses...