This takes place after the Halloween Fundraiser. The Tau Iota Taus were sponsoring a karaoke contest for the Teaching and Nursing college. The contest was mostly for the purpose of providing cheap entertainment for their November get together. For five grand in prize money, they got an evening of the mostly female college students putting on a show. The stu...
The character Dwayne is to some extent autobiographical; however, the story is entirely fictitious. Please enjoy. (:-o) ***** Dwayne Richards was of average build with pleasant features and mousy hair. He was athletic, but did not participate in any team sport; he was a loner; an introvert. He was destined to become a nerd, not only because of his genetic...
I was in college when my family started going to church for the first time. I'd grown up an atheist, maybe going to church with the grandparents the occasional Christmas and Easter. Then, suddenly, once I turned eighteen and moved out of the house to go to college across the country in California, my parents decided that my younger siblings ought to get some...
Kayla by Polly+Anna (4315 words) New beginnings (2/1/20) 7:05 A.M. - December 25 Gary walked into the bar room and the barmaid greeted him with "Merry Christmas." "And a hearty 'Bah, Humbug' to you too." "Your usual?" "I'm anything if not predictable," he said. Cindy Lou poured Worcestershire sauce and Tabasco on top of the ice in the tall glass and re...
I was sitting in a bar having a quiet time drinking my usual scotch and water when I watched her walk up to the jukebox and put a quarter in. To me she was still the most beautiful girl in the world and had been since I had first met her. I knew she knew I was there. She had come to give me a reminder once again of where we were in our relationship. I knew w...
My name is Sabrina, Jay's daughter. I'm twenty years old, and I've always been daddy's girl. I think that's why my mother may have been jealous of me as I was growing up. My dad always had time for me, no matter what was going on. I loved sports following in his footsteps, being athletic and active. Mom, on the other hand, sort of put up with us. I didn't re...
All characters in this story are 18 or over ———————————————- "You know who I've been thinking about a lot recently?" said Jenna Swanson, an 18-year old senior at Sunset High, a private all-girls school, one Monday lunchtime to her best friend Amber Cook, a fellow 18-year old senior. "Who?" asked Amber. "Wait - is it a teacher?" "Yep," Jenna replied. "Oh...
All characters are over 18 yrs. old. *** Mike Owens had finished cleaning up the loft in the small barn in his backyard. It looked pretty good he thought. He had a few chairs and several blankets and pillows to make laying around comfortable. There was a window that he could open to allow air in. It also had a few lights so he could hang out at night too....
(For readers outside Australia, a few notes: Mobile = Cell Phone. Summer begins on December 1. In Australia we wear thongs on our feet = flip flops. That is 'thongs' plural. 'Thong' could be one of those items of footwear but increasingly is also used for that item of underwear which has barely a string between the bum cheeks and a tiny triangle of cloth in...
"Asia." She flipped her long braids over her shoulder and turned away from him. In just a few more achingly slow minutes, the bus would pull onto Darden Court. "Asiiiiaaaaa." She adjusted her book bag on her shoulder, rolling her eyes as she listened intently for the squeaky hot metal sounds of the bus's brakes one street over. It wasn't like this was a...