My work occasionally takes me into a certain mixed-use building downtown used as a hangout spot for college students. The ground level has a bookstore and several chain restaurants, and the upper floors contain classrooms and administrative offices for a local college. The basement of this building was leased by the city as a sort of record-keeping facility...
My alarm woke me at seven o’clock and I got up, took a shower. After I got dressed, I made myself a sandwich and ate it. I wasn’t sure whether Jill planned to feed me or not. Even if she did feed me, given her obvious focus on health, she might want to give me some kind of tofu concoction. That stuff gags me. Finally, I locked up my house, got in my car, an...
Even though she'd only spent a week in the area, Erin was able to find the housing development without using the GPS on her phone. She drove up a couple of short side streets to her friends' house, pulling into the U-shaped driveway and stopping near the front door. It was the Monday after she'd graduated, and two weeks before the shortened summer term would...
Ch. 02: Team-building I was curious about the famous team-building. My colleagues were talking about a lot and sometimes we got an e-mail about the plans. I think they had tried to make us interested in the team-building so they gave us information about it little by little only. There was a poster in the elevator, showing who is in charge of the registrati...
Stephen closed up the back of the UHaul and began to drive it to the dealer and thought about his life. As difficult as the last 18 months had been, he was glad to finally be making a new start in a new town, with a new job. After his wife of 21 years passed away, he found himself with no ties to New York and decided to try somewhere with better weather. His...
Earning your way through college has never been an easy task, especially for a scholarship student attending NYU full time, with little time to hold down a job and pay for room and board. That's why I jumped at the opportunity my uncle had hooked up for me at this semi-luxurious apartment complex on the west side of town. He had a good friend that was into t...
Rose Gowan wipes the sweat drops coating her forehead after her long trek from her dorm building to the tall, research building in the scorching hot sun. She glances to the building, and her jaw drops upon the building's very high tech and modern look. The building is one of the research buildings owned by her university, and she is here because she is a par...
I'm an accounting manager and work in an office building. The building is three stories tall and sits right next to the freeway. My office is on the third floor on the freeway side. A couple times a month I work late, sometimes well into the night. I find I can concentrate and get more done when I'm there alone without the distractions of my fellow workers a...
Author's note: This is part 5 of a six part story. The central theme is a version of the movie Groundhog Day. Sorry for the delay, but this chapter has a lot of moving parts and it took me longer to put together than anticipated. Friday July 15th, 2016 Day 1403 "What is love? Baby don't hurt me....don't hurt me....no more" I slowly sat up in bed. I fina...
Andrew Anderson entered the conference room in the courthouse with his attorney, Jennifer Portofino. They were the first ones to arrive and set about finding chairs to wait on the other participants in the conference. Jennifer placed her notebook computer on the table, booted it, and pulled several folders from her briefcase. While the computer was loading...