Doug was 22 years old, having recently graduated from university in Ireland. He shifted in his seat trying to find a comfortable position. He had been on a flight or 19 hours heading from Dublin to Los Angles, his home town. His plane still had two hours till arrival. Dublin was a big culture shock when he first arrived. It was a modern metropolitan capital...
DOOM, BABY! "The world's going to end in five minutes!" John announced, slamming the door behind him. "Let's fuck!" Dropping her anthropology textbook to the floor, Becky bounced off the bed and started to shuck off her jeans. "Who told you that?" she questioned. "Command Center," he replied, tossing his cell to Becky's roommate. "I've set the timer." A...
It had been a long day. The station was virtually deserted. I had ten minutes until the last train left; mercifully it only made two stops before mine. The whole journey would last no more than forty minutes. I bought a coffee from the Starbucks stand and made my way through the barriers to the front carriage. It was empty, and I headed to a pair of seats at...
I was 20 years old, a junior in college and had a serious case of senioritis. My boyfriend at the time, Mister Atrevido and I agreed to meet up early at a study spot on campus to prep for a Biology final. We actually met on Myspace. Yep, good old Myspace from way back when it was popular. This was the true beginning of my "online dating" experience. We con...
Inspired by an overheard chat, a voyeur remains concealed to listen but has a mini camera in his bag which is positioned carefully, with great risk and captures the scenes and sounds of two young slag mothers, whilst they feed their babies. ***** Having finished my swimming exercises at the local leisure centre and I was having the usual cappuccino. Depen...
The roof on my son's backyard clubhouse needed to be replaced. The boards were rotting or warped, and just looked plain terrible. Our neighborhood of closely packed houses sure didn't need to see that ugly roof poking over the fence. We'd had a lot of rain lately, especially on the weekends. The rain, of course, sure helped out the rotting and warping of t...
Jogging On the Thursday evening, Jon came home a bit early and said that we were going jogging before tea. He told me to put my tennis dress and trainers on and off we went. I had a bit of trouble keeping up with him and the wind was causing me a bit of concern. There were too many people around and my dress was threatening to do a 'Marilyn Monroe'. We he...
It all began with Sophia's ridiculous dare. We'd been sitting at Mason's Coffee Shop late one spring afternoon, sipping mochas (low-fat milk with whipped cream!) and taking a well-deserved breather from life as graduate students. As usual, Melinda was tapping away on her iPhone, texting as if she'd forgotten how to talk like the rest of us, somehow managin...
The day had barely muttered grayly through the closed window, had barely whispered in the tunnel of her pink ear, had only rolled once to stretch its clouded back and try to dim the sun with ash-cover that would deny the hour, when she knew. She guessed by the still of the apartment, by the strength of her own breathing, by the lack of a certain damp warmth...
A few years ago, Kelly and I toyed with the idea of buying a video camera. We like to travel, and in theory, a video camera would allow us to do an even better job of recording our trips for keepsakes. In reality, we found that we didn't use it that way, and that it was a little too expensive to own at that particular time, and thanks to the generous return...