Stephen Bonheur here. What's up, people? Happy Thanksgiving! The Capital University campus library is essentially my second home, partly because I love to play around on computers in my spare time. Seriously, if I'm not at work or asleep, I'm usually at the university library. As a young Black man of Haitian descent living in the City of Ottawa, Ontario, bel...
Mariella Yasimoto-Johnson is the name, and I was born in the City of Toronto, Ontario, to a Japanese-Canadian mother and a Jamaican immigrant father. Five-foot-eleven, brown-skinned, black-haired and brown-eyed, sturdy and curvy but fit, that's me. I am the unique daughter of two different worlds. It's not easy being a mixed-race woman in the Confederation o...
For Mike, who enjoyed every story I ever told him. ***** Mike leaned back in his chair and stretched. He glanced at the clock—almost 4:00 in the afternoon, and on a Friday. The office was nearly empty, everybody having gone home early to get a head start on the weekend. His performance review was coming up in about 10 minutes, with his bitch of a boss, Jan...
You are a poor student, in dire need of money to pay this semester's tuition. You visit the financial aid office to see if they can help you to find a way to make the payments, a loan, a grant, a scholarship, a job, anything. The aid officer sternly reviewed your records, shaking his head and tsking from time to time. You shift in your seat uncomfortably. He...
JOEL: Hello. KEARA: Hi. JOEL: How are you? KEARA: Stressed, but okay, thanks. How are you? JOEL: I'm fine. Why are you stressed? KEARA: I don't want to talk about it. How's work going? JOEL: Same as always. Nothing ever changes there. KEARA: That doesn't sound good. JOEL: It is what it is. Why are you stressed? KEARA: I said I don't want to talk ab...
This is my first ever story that I've written -- any and all feedback is much appreciated -- any suggestions and comments are also encouraged! ------------------------------------------- Preparing for a job interview always gets me excited, even more so now as the economy is worsening and worsening. I know that I'm not the most skilled employee out there a...
I had employed Carly about 6 months before based on the fact that she had good experience and from her qualifications appeared that she could do the job expected of her. Carly was very conscientious and always began work before time and often stayed late when I required her to do this. As the months passed by and the work given to Carly became more complex...
The phone started ringing at the Clarkson household around 12:30pm. Brittany rolled over on her back and answered the phone in a sleepy tone of voice. "Hello?" Brittany answered. "Is this Brittany Clarkson?" asked the male caller. "Yes... This is she," Brittany replied. "This is Mark Sampson from Corny Dog. I've reviewed your application and like what I...
Hard Hats "Hey, sexy lady! I want you to come sit on my face! Yeah you! I want you to come sit on my face!" Wolf whistles, cat calls and all other manner of Hollywood level stereotyping are the common perceptions of the modern construction worker. The classic image of a sexy woman walking past a work site and everything stops and then she is getting whi...
Sheldon and Leonard climbed the steps of their apartment building. They were discussing their failed attempt at donating sperm in order to make a couple extra bucks. They failed because Sheldon was worried who ever used his sperm wouldn't love the resulting child as they should. "Are you still mad about the sperm bank?" Sheldon asked. "No," Leonard repli...