I took the weekend off and decided that I was going to go to Portland and look around. I've lived in Oregon for 14 years, and for the most part try to stay away from the largest city, due to traffic. There was a restaurant and book stores I wanted to visit and maybe check out some popular places to meet new friends. I had heard that The Hawks Club near down...
Chapter 24 - W4 - Friday evening 7:00 PM Most of the trainees ate later than usual tonight, because of the special and mandatory meeting that Ruben had arranged. One table had been reserved for the CA group, and they were the last of the students to fill their trays. The podium had been returned to the cafeteria, as it was last Friday night. "Gentlemen," R...
"OH FUCK.....WHAT TIME IS IT?" Sven's anxious voice quickly roused me out of a deep sleep. I let my eyes open partway and through the soft light drifting in around the drapes, I saw him leaning over to look at the alarm clock beside the bed. "SHIT!" he exclaimed as he hurriedly threw back the sheets and hopped out of bed. "Wh......what's wrong?" Kurt asked...
Chapter One "Fuckin hell!" I screamed as I looked in my locker for my deodorant. I was sure that I had brought some in my bag but much to my chagrin, I had forgotten it. The wrong time to do so too considering I had a date with a hot girl, Irene, from London. I met her after one of our matches last week. As I was going under the tunnel, she yelled out my...
Chapter 87: Putting Things Right Merrick loving kisses Adam's lips, before he sits back up. The spoon clinks in the small bowl he holds, before he turns to set it next to the ceramic deep dish containing the rest of the soup. He gets up, and turns around, smiling as he sees the paper fish cards taped up on the wall. He puts his hand onto one of them, openin...
I kept coming into consciousness randomly and in the middle of activities over the next few days. It was really trippy because I could see what I was doing but I couldn't really control it. Everything was in slow motion, my mind was detached. The first time I awoke, I was getting a shot in the arm by a man I recognized as Ali's father, a doctor as Ali had...
Author's note: After a near-fatal hard-drive incident I was backing up some old files when I came across this. Somewhat to my surprise, this was abandoned in a nearly-finished state and then forgotten about. I mostly just had to spruce it up a little and give it an edit. I'm not sure that at this point, eight years (!) later, there's anyone looking for a con...
Drew was finding it difficult to concentrate. He knew the moment he hit the water, life would be bearable again. Everything made more sense off-land than it did on solid ground - life always did. He could still hear the crowd going wild, but it wasn't right. They didn't cheer for him. He could hear the quiet through the loud cheers. He knew that within the r...
Come Fly with Me With a grimace I couldn't help thinking about how pained I must look wandering through departures on autopilot. The Boarder Force Officers that check our passports outbound looked at me like I was something from the walking dead - I don't even remember our conversations. I'm guessing that I answered their questions correctly, else why would...
Revised version copyright 2009 by the author. Committed readers of my stories will notice that this tale is a prequel to two others already posted. A prize to the first person who writes and tells me which ones . * It's getting a little hard to remember with all the "For Sale" signs going up on my block, but not too long ago times were good, and people we...