My first year at college, a guy I sort of liked was a so-called party promoter. He'd hand out flyers for these parties at a place called Short Ribs, Little Miss Piggy's. I kinda liked him, so the first time he handed me one, I made it my business to show up. Turns out he had a girlfriend, and I met her when I got to the party. But I kept showing up to those...
Chapter 9: Growth Sucks, I hate it and I don't want to do it anymore. Trigger warning: Death/Suicide is discussed in this chapter. ———— "I killed my father," I whisper, "I don't think that's something I'm allowed to get over." I wipe my face and take a deep breath. It tumbled out of me so quickly I can feel my heart racing, I try to steady it with my h...
If only I knew then what I know now. As a teenager I was very naive. Sex was something that adults did and was 'naughty' but nice. I was always 'prim and proper'. What an idiot I was. My life changed when I was 22, I was getting so bored with my life in the pokey little town in North Wales that I decided that I had to do something about it. I managed to get...
Sarah and Anthony were once colleagues and worked together as tax clerks in London. Their friendship was one of mutual laughter and shared hatred of their employer. In 2012 Anthony left the tax office to relocate to England's south coast and Sarah missed him very much. Although they had never formally dated, there had been quite a few drunken snogs and vario...
It's raining again... or maybe it's better to say it's still raining. But at least the bed is warm and comfy, and looking at my watch, I still have an hour before I have to get up and get to class. My name is Jillian Aimee Boyack but everyone calls me Jamiee. I'm was cursed to be short and skinny at five-feet one-inch tall and weighing in at ninety-five poun...
Alyce Walsh knew that tonight would be special. A part of her, however, wished this night would never have to come. Walsh had risen to become the first foreign-born executive editor of Metropolis magazine, a role she had served in for five years before receiving a lucrative offer to become the editor-in-chief of Harbour Magazine, the most popular publicatio...
An Unfortunate Afternoon I was berating myself over my decision to come to the bank today. This bank in particular. It was a financial institution I had never been in before, but I thought I'd pick up a money order on the way home from work for a purchase I was to make. Now, I found myself embroiled in the middle of a terrorist stand-off at a bank in the mi...
Chapter 1: Life Will Never Be The SAME! About a year ago I decide to move to Seattle where my best friend June lives. June and I had meet in middle school in the six grade we became best friends instantly. June moved out here 5 years ago after receiving a scholarship to go to the University of Washington, we spent every summer and every winter break togethe...
She's wearing a short skirt with cowboy boots. Her eyebrow is pierced. She has pinkish-purple hi-lites dyed in her hair. She doesn't look remotely unasian (as she said to me before we met). We get brunch at some hipster place. She thinks "brunch" is a pretentious idea, and wonders why we aren't just getting lunch. I explain that while brunch in Brooklyn is c...
It was February, with racing season just about to start. It was one of Justin's favorite sports, especially with the rise of a beautiful young racer named Natalie Decker. Natalie was a petite, blonde beauty of 20 who got Justin's engine revving. He had tickets and a pit pass to watch his fantasy girl compete in an Arca race at Daytona. It was a week before h...