Wendy just dreaded her annual exam. But since there's history of cancer in her family, she makes sure she keeps her appointment. Unfortunately for her, her regular doctor had left the practice. She was told that her appointment would be with an older doctor who was filling in. She never thought to ask if it was a female doctor. Her old doctor, like the other...
Dear Diary: This was a night to remember (Cyndi Lauper song reference unintentional). Tired and wired as I am, I figure it's best to write it all down now, before I forget the details or they get blurred. And after I've finished, I'm going to tear the attic apart until I find a safe place to stash you away, so no one ever reads this. At least, not till I've...
I was walking back to my flat; it was the summer of 1976 and I was 24 and it was hot and dry, so I was wearing short sleeved shirt with a tie on, of course, but no jacket. I was training to be an accountant and lived in a small flat, not far from where I worked in Kingston-upon-Thames. I came round a corner and there was this woman struggling to carry two pl...
I woke up sweating and scared; it had been a bad dream. Just two weeks ago, I turned 10 and was so happy. The following week my parents had been killed in a car accident. There were no relatives, so I had been sent to an orphanage. I felt so alone and had nightmares every night. The nuns were really good. They had taken me in and treated me like a son. I wou...
"Well fuck you then!" I screamed, slamming the door in my now ex-boyfriend's face. A mumbled, "whatever" hung in the air as Trevor clomped down the stairs of my apartment building. His footsteps faded and I stood at the door trembling as the anger subsided and tears welled up in my emerald green eyes. It took only a few moments to make the transition from s...
Oh man it had been a roller-coaster of a day. My proposal was now two weeks overdue and you, my best customer, had started to lose your patience with me. If I could only keep this phone from ringing for just one more hour, I know that I could wrap it all up. "Ring - Ring" Oh no, not again. "Yes" I answer brusquely "Well", came your familiar voice, "if tha...
I walked into my office at work. Jess, who worked for me as my Administration manager, was sitting behind my desk. "Hi Paul," was mumbled softly as she was peering intently at the work on the screen. We had known each other for 15 years, since we had both started with the company. It wasn't unusual for Jess to seek the peace and quiet of my office when I w...
"Bang, bang, bang, BANG!" Becky awoke from her very short night's rest. "They're here again," she sulked, and tried to go back to sleep, but to no avail. The construction workers arrived every morning at 7 o'clock, and it was bad enough that she was still jet-lagged from returning from her vacation to Hong Kong. After another 30 minutes of tossing and turn...
I had to laugh when I heard the music playing and the shower running behind the door of the master bathroom. Dana, my wife, apparently had the same plan as I did about getting ready early that Saturday evening before we met her girlfriend and husband for dinner. Yes, she wanted to see as much of the football game as she could before we had to leave. Though...
It was a Saturday, and I had nothing better to do than lay in my bed in my dorm room, watching TV. Suddenly, I heard a quiet knock at my door, which I initially ignored, until the quiet knocking turned into banging. Lazily, I got off my bed to answer, and was greeted by my friend Sam, who I had been regularly hanging out with since the start of the year....