"Gone, never forgotten."
"Sappy damn movies," Amanda muttered as she mopped the tears from her eyes with the back of one hand and pressed stop on the DVD remote with the other. The old Sandra Dee movie, Imitation of Life, always made her...
"An older guy, a young girl and a well-timed snow storm."
Sometimes I can’t help but be disgusted by my own stubbornness, or maybe I should say, my own stupidity. Why, just an hour ago I was sitting in my car shaking my head at myself, wishing I’d listened to my...
"Anna meets Drew from across the pool and can't get enough of him."
"Meet us back in the room at 5," my mum called as she walked away from our lounge chairs. "No problem," I thought to myself. It was noon and the guy across the pool would not stop staring at me. I...
"Whose mercy do I need most?"
I was absolutely shocked. Baffled. Bamboozled. Confused. Non-plussed.Any of these words, and more besides, described me. I was sitting on the toilet. That was not why I was so shocked and confused. I knew how I had gotten there and...
"Carmen rekindles an old romance and fantasy, with electric results!"
Carmen turned to her laptop and logged onto Facebook. She had no trouble finding Charles, and was startled to discover that he had over ten thousand followers. When she examined his profile, Carmen was taken aback to discover that Charles...
"The Quality of Mercy is not strain'd, said Shakespeare, I once tested my emotions on that."
My name is Jennifer. I suppose I am what you would call normal, for the most part. I am twenty-four years old and I work in admin for a textiles company. It's not the job of my dreams or anything,...
"Jennifer's day at the company turns out quite different and rather revealing."
The next morning dawned far too early, but I couldn’t keep the smile from my lips when sticky fluids on my body confirmed that this had not been a dream. There was this urge to whistle a tune while I...
"Through the winds of change, an unexpected romance occurs."
The sun shone bright as I walked along the shore of Lake Superior. I loved the sound of the water rushing up on shore and the feel of the cold water and soft sand upon my bare feet. The water...
"The morning after...."
I didn't want the fantasy to end so I walk right past the note and head to the shower. Whatever is in that note can wait, reading something about "had a great time... had to go... we'll always have Dallas"...
"If one feels too at home in a hotel room, unexpected and exciting things may happen."
No matter where I tended to end up for the night, these little rituals kept me grounded, gave me a little bit of homely quality to counteract the tedious sterility of hotel rooms. I set my diary onto the nightstand,...