"The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and the other begins?" -Edgar Allan Poe, "The Premature Burial" *** Wallace dreaded nothing more than being alone in the dark, here of all places. Clarence had the lantern, and although he was an old man he was faster, so Wallace had to run to kee...
Several years ago, just for fun, I audited a Creative Writing class at the university associated with the hospital where I am an RN. Probably the best assignment throughout the semester was to write something that would be appropriate for an episode of "The Twilight Zone". In other words, if we wanted to bend the rules of reality a bit here and there, go rig...
Chapter 26. Mousy. (May 1985). I met the second guy I had sex with at Uni and suppose he could be described as my first real boyfriend. We didn't stay together long, about five months or so, and although we had sex a few times it was never all that good; at least not for me. Anyway we drifted apart and I hadn't seen Phil for a month or more when I met Mousy...
After that evening with Rakesh where I had helped him to jack off, whatever barriers were there between us crumbled. We had seen each other naked and we had shared some more secrets. It was like we were walking down a path of no return. A few months later, my husband and I went for a holiday to Matheran, a place near Mumbai. With us were another couple who...
I always thought when I met the Love Of My Life, it would be in the great tradition of novels and films and I’d “just know”. As it was, I don’t even remember our first meeting, or our second or our third…after that however, I do vaguely recall someone with a very dodgy haircut and a gingery goatee, walking past me in the corridor carrying some boxes. I remem...
On the anniversary marking the thirty-first year of my emergence into this world, I felt the bare skin of another human being for the first time in memory. Amelia always said I'd come to bad ends. How I ended up in her clutch, considering I had no genetic relationship with the others, remains a mystery. The story, as she tells it, is that four months after...
I first met Ivan the second semester of my junior year while studying art in Florence. He was a friend, or I should say, a business associate of my father's and he called me up in late April to invite me to dinner. I had never met Ivan, but I remember my father telling me stories about him. He was rich, rather eccentric, and a serious collector of sculpture....
"And by all means, make yourself at home." That was the last thing Josh said to Brooke as he got into the limo to take him to the airport. That was three days ago, and Brooke still finds that line very funny. Brooke had just finished college. She was twenty five years old, and got a late start to college. Being an art major with hopes of working in a larger...
"Oh Alan, this stuffy old school gives me the creeps." said Dorothy to her handsome Husband, the new school master of the dreaded upper sixth. Alan agreed with his beautiful young Wife, "it is a bit old fashioned Dorothy, rigidly maintaining the 'traditional' school values, as everyone keeps endlessly repeating." They were alone now in the school master's...
I didn't get out much after the accident that killed my wife. It was a stupid thing to happen. I'd taken the kids down to the playpark to let them run wild for a couple of hours. While I was gone Georgia decided to wash the bedroom curtains. She washed and dried them with no problems but when it came time to hang them up again she couldn't be bothered using...