"How'd it go?" "Fine. I didn't miss anybody and I didn't break any windows and I only had to retrieve one paper from a garden. It ain't rocket science, ya know." My friend Larry grinned and handed me a pair of pliers. It was the summer I turned nineteen. I was in the backyard of my folks home repairing my little sister's bicycle. I'd just started my new te...
SELF ISOLATION By Dawn R When the COVID virus hit I had a decision to make. As a writer I am very lucky in that I can work anywhere. Anywhere that is, that has light and power and good access to the internet. I am too married to my computer to consider resorting to pen and ink. Being too married to my job and my computer is also what led, at least in part,...
I I can remember the last day of my old life as vividly as if it was yesterday. It began with my hand slamming down to silence the jarring, banshee wail from the alarm clock as it tore me from a deep, dreamless sleep. I lay staring at the ceiling, half awake and in a state of disbelief and feeling as though I had been cheated, I had just closed my eyes the...
Edited by Todger65 It was a hot Saturday morning. I headed out to the beach for a swim and a tan. I slipped on a skimpy two-piece bikini which was pretty revealing, grabbed my beach bag and keys and headed out the door. After a quick drive I arrived at the beach. I parked the car and walked down finding a nice spot to lay my towel. I always loved coming her...
We were two days and two nights into our week at the beach house, and I was frustrated. The trip hadn't been exactly as my friends advertised when they talked me into it. We had yet to play volleyball on the beach in the light of the evening sun, had yet to peruse the cute little shops in town. So far, I'd been watching from the sidelines as my girlfriends w...
I started dating my asshole boyfriend Brian at the beginning of our junior year in college, when I met him at a party thrown by my sorority and his fraternity. He's not the worst boyfriend I've had, but he thinking we're going to get married, so he's incredibly jealous. And for a college girl like me who just wants to have fun, he can be a real buzzkill and...
Charlie walked down the steps next to the pier and out onto the white sand. The long shadows of the pier in the early morning shaded the sand, keeping it damp and cool. Later, in the heat of day this sand would be blistering hot. He walked to the dunes to his right surveying the naked beach as he walked. "Naked," he thought, "naked is right... there's not a...
I threw back the curtains and was almost blinded by the intensity of the light and colours that flooded in to my room. Deep blue skies and aqua blue seas speckled with shimmering flashes of reflected sunlight. Dominating it all was unfiltered dazzling orb of the sun still low in the morning sky casting its rays directly in to my East facing room. Its warmth...
It is Sunday evening and I find myself on vacation in Southern California ready to spend a quiet evening walking the beach watching the sunset. The sky is clear and a full moon is on the calendar. I am expecting to experience the best part of my vacation tonight, just me, alone, watching the waves and smelling the fresh salt air. I leave my rented beach ho...
The author kindly advises that this scenario contains graphic language and is only suitable for persons over 18 years old. Chapter 1: The Dunes It is Friday afternoon. Grace Worthington, a blonde, tall and slender eighteen-year-old Uni student packs her weekend bag at her dorm building. She is going home for the weekend. Home is her parents place close to...