I just want to go on record right now, in front of God and everybody, that I never, ever planned it to wind up the way it did. Things just happened. In the end, though, I'm glad it all worked out. See, Jared and I always wanted to play basketball. He was too skinny and I was too short for football, and neither one of us could throw or hit or run very well...
Sweating bullets and ever conscious of her stern academic advisor's disapproving indifference, Tracy moved to the final suggestion on her list of possible topics. "I was thinking I might do my thesis on Slave Yoga," Tracy said. "It's very trendy, and there's a lot of interesting psychological aspects." Tracy's faculty advisor, Dr. Agatha Crush, had dismiss...
It started, as these things so often do, with the police. Because they went to the wrong house (if your warrant says 253 Oak DRIVE, you're not supposed to go to 253 Oak LANE -- they're on completely opposite sides of the city), they broke down the door of Councilman Jackson's house and when he and his wife reflexively reacted to someone smashing in the door,...
Early last year my boyfriend of ten years and I broke up briefly. During that time, I dated a guy for two months which really upset him so when we got back together I told him I'd do anything to make it up to him. I was very apologetic as it was a silly thing to do and he agreed that I would have to do some things to make it right. We always had a very adven...
In an alternate world, the constant threat of attacks by terrorists and criminals caused the public to become increasingly frightened. This fear pressed the government to create new regulations to help the people to feel more safe. Strangely, the government found that terrorist and criminal attacks were committed by females much more often than males. This r...
A friend of mine once told me that if I want to be a writer, I should write every day. By "friend," I could be referring to a fellow writer I met online like Max or Shepard, both of whom I have not heard from in quite some time. Or I could mean somebody I have met in person and have gotten to know better. One such case is my friend Ben. He once told me that...
Julie sprang out of bed the moment her alarm went off. It was followed by a muffled thud of her face-planting the floor, still being tangled up in her blankets. Getting back to her feet, she was much more careful this time. She took her fresh-pressed uniform out of the laundry basket that had cleaned and folded it during the night. Setting it on the counter...
Ch. 01 - David learns the truth about his parents. Eighteen-year-old David Cater was in the second-floor bedroom of his family's three-bedroom bungalow home pacing like a bull in a too small stall and worrying over how he was going to explain this. He was a wholly forgettable young man, five foot nine, one hundred fifty-two pounds, brown hair, brown eyes,...
I know what you're thinking - a carpenter's best friend is his hammer. Well, yes and no. I have a lot of hammers for a lot of different jobs. Some are for framing, some are for roofing, some are for trim work, some are swung by arm, some are powered by compressed air, some are powered by batteries, and on and on. I have a bunch of saws, too: cross cut, rippi...
It was a hot muggy August day in the Midwest as I walked into my 6th period class. My last class of the day, science, according to my schedule my instructor was V. Owens. Being the first day of school I had no idea who V. Owens was and not only that at 18 I was all ready bored with the project of going to school. I sat there with 20 other seniors, 8 guys and...