I've always been a sucker for Scandinavia. It's such a weird mix of primitive and modern, what with bears in the streets and Nobel Prize and all that. It fascinates me. So, when my company opened a new office in Sweden, I was eager to get transferred there. It was every bit as exotic as I had imagined it. OK, so there were no bears or moose walking around...
in An alley off of a street that seems to appear and disappear in the oldest most decrepit part of the city, there is a little shop front. An old overhead sign hanging from the storefront that says in fancy script The Library. You enter into the place through the old wooden entrance. You see pile after pile of books and bookcases with no real organization an...
My name is Melissa. I am 32 years old, married to a wonderful man for the last 5 years, and we have a 3 year old son. My husband Tom is 38. Tom works for a large insurance company based out of New York, but he manages an investment group here in our Midwestern city. I have my Masters in Political Science but after we had our son Tom's career was doing well e...
Going into his freshman year at university, Will was a shy, quiet 18 year-old with a passion for film, theatre, and musicals. Although he longed to be on the stage, his anxiety kept him relegated behind the scenes for his high school productions, and despite his resolutions going into post-secondary education, he had found himself working as an assistant sta...
This story begins on a random Saturday morning. We were planning on spending the day working on projects at home. Tony was working hard outside, mowing and edging the lawn. I was inside dusting, sweeping, and mopping. Music was blaring through the speakers as the radio hummed over the noise of the vacuum. I danced happily along as I cleaned. A commercial cam...
Cover Image Source Call it an anthology I guess. The stories will likely be short and linear. And mostly about the sex. (And there's gonna be incest. Lots of incest.)What's next? Red and the Riding Woods Jack Hoff and the Beanstalk What's next? Red and the Riding Woods Jack Hoff and the Beanstalk...
Brandy had finished her shift at the House of Dreams, a store of strange wonders. Toys of all varieties, wondrous candies from around the world, clothing which was exotic to the states, and many other strange trinkets were sold at the shop. People stopped by regularly to stare in amazement, and now and then people purchased the goods, whether a cute outfit f...
Case #1. Catching a train. Accidentally crushed by a subway car. Case closed. Hoping to catch something other than a sexually transmitted disease, Susan sat alone at a high class bar. Looking as beautiful as she could for her to stand out from the pack of women who were desperate for their soul mate of a man in shining armor, she was looking for love. With...
There is an old saying about fishing and work. It goes something like this; 'The worst day fishing is better than the best day working'! I was having one of those days. Work had gone well and, in general, I suppose it was a good day. But, I was getting 'antsy' and I wanted to get 'out of here'. With it being Friday, I skipped lunch and headed home to get a...
"I look like a freaking fairytale witch like this..." The man muttered as he stirred his cauldron. "Or maybe that Harry Potter professor... what's his name..." Janus Edwards Plum wasn't your ordinary appartment tenant. In fact, a great community of people calls him insane, though he insisted that he's only eccentric. He stopped stirring f...