The buzzer had sounded ending the game. After shooting the puck along the ice off the side board I followed my team mates off the ice and toward the locker room. Fred Watts, the talented left wing on my line wearing number 28, came up beside me. The game had gone well for me. My short wrist shot at 14:13 of the third period had tied the score. It had beate...
"Oh, Chris," tutted Geoff as he stepped into the car. "You could at least have shaven." "I did shave," protested Chris. He put the car into drive. "Like three days ago." He looked at his friend, who wore a bright orange tank top, Speedos, and flip-flops. Comparatively, Chris felt like a schlub in the board shorts he got for $10 on clearance at Old Navy. Bu...
For Steve McCarthy, the reason he became involved with the Union College Chess Club were two-fold. The love of the game was certainly one of them, of course, having been an avid player for most of his 57 years. The second was that it allowed him to interact with young people, primarily men, and that always made him feel more alive. Having just retired from...
I've always been wild...the wild one in my family, at school...I regularly got grounded, got called out...got pulled back. Maybe it was just timing but I learned a valuable lesson my 12th summer...at church. My family is religious. One sunny Sunday at church, I couldn't sit still. The fidgets and squirms were constant. My mom hand me in her grip. I saw birds...
When I turned on my computer and opened my email on Tuesday morning, there was a response from Jody. Hi Julian, I was glad to hear that you liked Psych class today. I've been looking forward to it ever since we got out of New B's. I plan to major in psychology, what about you? Have you thought about what you'd like to major in? Comparing profiles might be...
I put a "_______" where the juicy part starts if you aren't into reading what happened during the buildup. Always love feedback. *** I was driving up to the nice part of town to watch the game at my work buddy's house. We both worked as project managers for a construction company. His wife was out of town with the kid, and he had the house to himself. Grea...
About 10 minutes had passed, James struggled weakly against his bonds. Despite that, his nose got accustomed to the horrible smell, it was still too much to bear. James coughed and gagged a few more times while turning his head right and left. The scent of all these things combined with him sweating and panting made him a bit dizzy. All the gunk that covered...
Despite the fascinating, urban resort-like rooms that Arthur got to hang out in, despite the good food and the pleasant conversations, and the tours, the next five days were mostly tedious. Sometimes, he got to sit outside in one of the courtyards. He'd always see an uninterrupted sky when he looked up, not a tree in sight. Other times, Vince rolled Arthur...
Ever since I saw my first Monday Night Football game when I was ten years old, I have been an obsessed football fan. And during football season, my Sunday afternoons are spent at the local sports bar – cheering and screaming with everyone else. This is certainly a typical Sunday afternoon for most heterosexual American men, and in many ways I am a typical g...
The light in the room was dim, dusk having set in over the previously abandoned cottage at the edge of the village. The furnishings were scant, mostly broken and worn-out, useless sticks of this and that, with thick layers of dust on all surfaces, the dust also being heavy in the weak beams of light coming through the grimy-paned window, kicked up by the act...