A story for my kiwi friend. The nurse left the hospital room after completing her routine checks and Helen felt the forced smile drop from her face. Being stuck in hospital while undergoing treatment for breast cancer was not fun at the best of times, but now that her husband Steven was unwell and couldn't visit for two weeks Helen was feeling sorry for her...
[Note: this story was the first I posted here at LIT – now more than a decade ago – and it was a catharsis of sorts, a working out of emotions overwhelming me at the time. I read it over a few months back and wanted to smooth out a few kinks, but it is otherwise little changed. This is a very short story about coming to terms, I think, with the unavoidable,...
Hello, there. My name is Alice Watkins. I'm a six-foot-tall, blonde-haired and green-eyed, voluptuous Irishwoman living in the city of Boston. I hail from the city of Galway in Ireland. My family sent me to America for my college education. We do fairly well for ourselves. My father owns Watkins Enterprises, a multi-million-dollar textile business. He's well...
A funny thing happened on my way home from the airport the other day. No, not funny "ha ha", but funny like strange. I saw my wife sitting on another man's lap, and they were all wrapped up in each other and they were in public too. I had managed to get the client's on-site physical inspection done much sooner than everyone (including me) expected; more tha...
Things quieted down after the weekend. Classes and part-time jobs kept us busy during the days and most evenings. The times we were all at home together I kept a close eye on Elise to make sure nothing funny was going on with my roommates. Elise's new favorite thing seemed to be taking selfies and I'd receive them at random times throughout the day. It seem...
Rory was surprised how good she looked with so little preparation. A lacquered chopstick, a pin, and some drugstore makeup, and she looked at herself in the mirror. Perfect. Almost. Her gun was a tight fit, but she managed to strap it into her bra, out of Darryl's sight. The dress came with a pair of strappy sandals, but all the straps were just simply conne...
Author's notes: This story is posted in the Humor & Satire category and is intended to be a comedy. If you are looking for a quick wank this probably isn't the story for you. The story is set in an Australian pub and contains a lot of Aussie slang, so don't whinge or spit the dummy if you don't understand some of the words. You've been warned. Weekly at th...
We were roommates, and I think I fell in love with her immediately. She and the other roommate we would be sharing the house with picked me up at the airport. She was deceptively thin, and it wasn't until later when she sleeked from the bathroom to her room while I was on the couch watching tv that I realized how great a figure she had. She didn't flaunt it...
A man who wants a wonderful life lives a terrible life. Tyrone couldn't sleep. The Christmas lights from the store next door lit up his small room with the glow of the holiday. It was Christmas Eve and with children everywhere going to bed with dreams of Santa Claus and presents under the tree, for him, Christmas was a nightmare. Tyrone turned off the tele...
"Freddie, you have a visitor." The orderly escorted me out of my ward and delivered me to where there was a reporter looking to do a story for the local newspaper. "Please to meet you," he said sticking out his hand. Immediately, I didn't like the guy. He looked like snot. "Hi," I said not shaking his hand but looking at him in his suit, tie, and topcoat...