I was hurting badly. I had gotten the leg muscle pain side effect from my cholesterol medicine. There were days during which walking more than ten steps was out of the question and days in which my limit was closer to a thousand steps. Those days allowed me to go shopping, if I could park close by. However there were times I had to ask a store employee to...
I was still feeling slightly depressed after the breakup with a long term girlfriend. At the time I was just 22. The girlfriend and her parents, and mine for that matter, we're applying pressure on me to, pop to question. I just wasn't ready to settle down. To be honest I think I'd only stayed in the relationship, was purely because I was too chicken to end...
It was 5:30pm on a Friday night and Jack was exhausted after a long week of classes. A junior in college, he was studying hard to get into graduate school while working part-time to help pay his tuition. He definitely wasn't energetic enough to go out later that night with some friends, but still needed an endorphin boost. Might as well go to the gym, he tho...
When you grow up in a small town, you go to school with a very diverse population of students. There were 74 people in my graduating class and it was a big class compared to some years. You had the kids from wealthy families, kids from farming families, kids from poor families. And, of course, birds of a feather flocked together in their little cliques. Well...
Diego had driven himself home, but it was well into the afternoon when he finally arrived. His wife, Suzanna, met him at the door. "You know I was about to call the police." The light-skinned Hispanic woman was holding a cup of coffee while wearing a bathrobe. She stood at nearly the same height as her husband, staring down the former Master Sergeant. "I'm...
Please note that like all my essentially true stories, a condom was actually used as I advocate safe sex though for the purpose of this piece i have omitted to mention it. They save lives but describing their placements can kill the moment. Thanks. *************************** Everybody has a six pack, at least according to a personal trainer I once had. Ap...
The next day at work Michael cornered Daniel in the lab. "Come to dinner with me tonight..." Daniel stared at him. "No" "Come on its Friday and you don't work tomorrow. Seriously I won't take no for an answer." Michael said. "Well, guess what, I just said 'No' so you're gonna have to." He retorted. Michael stared back, waiting. "Look, I'm sure you didn...
"Fantastic game out there Nick, congratulations," said a coy voice from just beside the end of a long row of lockers; halfway down which stood Nick Jackman; a college football running back playing for UCLA. He was stood there in the casual clothes he had put on in place of his kit, and was preparing to leave to go to a house party ten minutes away to get dru...
"Lou is chasing another story down, Gavin, and this one doesn't look like more than a short paragraph in the local news section. So if you've got an hour or two, could you check this out? And if you don't have an hour or two, I'd like to know what you're doing; what you're working on now was due on my desk an hour ago." The city editor handed Gavin a teleph...
It was the start of summer vacation, I'm eighteen and have just graduated high school. In August I will be starting college at the University of Miami and studying medicine, like my dad. Dad is a doctor specializing in cardiology, so there is a decent amount of money in the family. Nearly every year since I can remember mom, dad, my sister Alanna and I would...