He watched. From inside Phuket Thai, a restaurant in Mililani Town Center. It was on a school day afternoon. Groups of high school students wandered past in their cliques. The trades were blowing through the square, occasionally forcing everyone to grab their hats. His attention focused upon two young guys, about sixteen or seventeen, wearing floppy shorts,...
"Attention shoppers we have a quick sale on ladies' shoes in the food court. Sizes are limited," said a voice over the PA system. I watched a couple of young girls get excited and dashed toward the sale. How great it would be to be carefree like that, without worries. Just hanging out with friends and shopping for shoes. Instead I was a woman in her thirties...
Sometimes...I hate men. A man can go do as he please and not tell his woman anything. She is supposed to cry...forget...accept. But when a woman does as she pleases and does not tell her man, suddenly it's the biggest betrayal of mankind, blah, blah, blah. A part of me thought it was cute how Maddix was pretending to be so upset, but the bigger part of me j...
(for those from less advanced cultural meccas: that's Klamath Union High School in Southern Oregon, USA) 1.) In freshman year, I went out for track and joined the long distance team. I did this because I wasn't very fast and really just did it for fitness and to see pretty girls in their track outfits. One day, I just didn't want to do the 5 mile run so I...
Diego sat with his chin in hand, playing idly with the two-day old stubble on it. They'd been hurtling through space on a very specific course, but what that course was he didn't know. Betty would chatter to the navigation computer every now and then and there would be a slight adjustment in the flight, then it would continue for hours with no excitement....
I looked across the playing hall to find her. I knew where to look, among the top boards of the open section. And she stood out, an attractive blonde-haired woman in a room full of shabby men. She was a chess player, an internationally known master. It was a surprise to see her in Philadelphia, so far from home. There was a good contingent of foreign playe...
(CHESS) Its a bit of a nuthouse this building really. Theres old Billy The Hamster upstairs (you really DONT want to know). And that wee wanker Shawn next door to him with the skinhead and the tattoo all round his neck. Then of course theres WhatsErFace. From Dundee I think. WhatsErFace has crazy red hair and we...
Troy, New York in 1975, where Jimmy, the nerd captain of the school's chess team, discovers women at the ripe old age of 18. *** "Come on in Jimmy," Mrs. Biondi said, stepping aside after I had knocked on the door, and as soon as I walked in the modest rural home I knew that this was going to be a great day. Mrs. Biondi was Becky's mother, and while Beck...
Magda Peter was nervous and embarrassed. Nervous about showing me his house, embarrassed about not paying for the taxi which had just thrown us up right next to three certain mailboxes of internet fame. He hadn´t even thought about money, that the taxi had to be paid and that he had no money with him, until now. I liked it so much I was worried. What if I l...
Friday at school is my short day. I had designed it pretty much that way, so that I could start the weekend early. Spring training didn't start until next month, and I had done weights yesterday, so I wouldn't be due in the gym until tomorrow. I was between girlfriends at the time, and none of my teammates had asked for the use of my apartment that night, so...