It was Sharon's 21st birthday and she was excited. Her and two of her friends, Lucy and Annette, were going to go to the local bar district to drink and dance at one of the many clubs down there. It wasn't the fact that she was going to drink she had been doing that for a long time but now she would be doing it legally at a bar and not in the basement of som...
I'm a modern dance instructor, and a few weeks ago a couple showed up at my modern dance class. They were the absolute picture of ski slopes fitness, the sorts who set the pace at resorts such as Aspen and Vail. I soon learned that they were both in fact competitive skiers and were taking my advanced dance class as part of their regimen to get in shape for t...
Jennifer wondered if she made a mistake in telling Lois her secret with Harvey. Harvey and Jennifer were to be married in seven days and she desperately needed to confide in someone. She needed help. “Lois,” Jennifer started, “When I first starting dating Harvey, I told him I didn’t believe in sex before marriage. He said you’re not telling me you’re a virg...
It was the busiest part of the day at the Festival when I was standing under the rusty brown leaves of the liquidambar trying to keep away from the busy throng of people trying to buy their lunch from one of the harassed vendors. It was then that I noticed a woman not much older than myself dressed in a loose-fitting kaftan her dark sultry eyes burning into...
It was tough to say who was more surprised -- Miranda, when her boyfriend suggested they go into the strip club -- or Josh, when she so quickly agreed to it. She had only been to a place like that once, with a bunch of girlfriends on a dare back in college and he had joked about taking her to one several times since they started dating. Regardless of how the...
The April meeting passed without incident, as far as I was concerned. Then Margie emailed she was coming in June and I was looking forward to seeing her. So I didn't think much about the meeting in May. Again the adventure started with a phone call at work and this time the caller was a young woman named Terry. After introducing herself and explaining her...
Many thanks to Lancerlott for his help proofreading this story. My intent for the "Briefs" series is to write short pieces on whatever scenario that comes to me. -Tricia ***** Saturday night at the "Who Cares?", out at the edge of town, is always a wild party. Everyone knows that it's a time and place where people come and experiment a little, dancing and...
Note: This story takes place between two girls who are seniors in high school and have fully reached eighteen years of age. * Pfft. Prom night. I leaned against the wall of the gym, one high-heel on the cinderblocks and my head resting against the corner of the wall. Give me a lunch table full of conversing students, and I could fit right in no problem, b...
"Wow tonight's going to be great!" Cindy said to herself. "I wonder if I should make this slit go up higher." Cindy was staring at herself in the mirror. She was getting ready for her big prom night. It was going to be perfect. The last big fling before I'm off to college, she thought. Her boyfriend, Jeff, was gorgeous, and he had planned out everything tha...
It was the first evening that the weather had been warm enough so I opened my curtains and then the sliding window and stepped out onto my balcony. The fresh, Spring air was a tonic and I placed my glass of wine on the balcony table and sat in the rattan chair and revelled in the view of the rooftops of the city. I'd left the lights off in my sitting room to...