The taxi pulled up to the house, a tall new build with pretty plants and a cosy porch. It was much bigger than I had anticipated. My shaky hands fumbled with the change so I gave the driver a note and let him keep the excess. Timidly I exited the car and made my way up the path. At the front door I was greeted by a simple white doorbell. I mustered enough br...
Dear Sue, I think I'd forgotten how the bank works. I started back at nine am this morning, and for the last two hours I've been sat in an office with paper work. Rejoiners forms, staff details forms, mortgage code board forms, FSA clearance forms… It's enough to make you despair. Granted I've got access to email from work, but I'm not sure you or me will...
When I woke up she was gone, with only the mussed bed and an old-sex smell to say she'd been at all. I lay there for some time, just thinking. Had I helped her? For all that half our time together seemed to be spent fighting, I did want her to be happy. I guess I really did love her. We just couldn't stand each other for more than a few hours at a time. I g...
As the wind howled outside and the rain hammered against my window, I was extremely grateful for the cosy, mulled-wine-reed-diffuser-scented warmth of my student bedroom. Nonetheless, I gazed impatiently out, waiting for someone I'd wanted in my bedroom for the best part of a year. Darci Morgan was easily one of the most attractive girls I'd interacted with...
Sleep overtook her and she drifted off, watching the firelight dancing on the ceiling. In the other room he lay as if poll-axed, snoring gently almost in tune with the wind in the trees outside. Bang! She was jolted awake by a noise, which penetrated the mists of her slumber. Bang! The wall next to her shuddered, and one of her grandfather's books fell to t...
I arrive in Houston on time and as planned. I take a cab to your office downtown and sneak through the front door of the high rise building. I sidle up to your office without being seen and manage to catch you by surprise. I close the door to your office and immediately pause to kiss you deeply. Your tongue slides by mine in surprise and dances in anticipati...
She saw him across the room. He was dressed normally, in a gray T-shirt and black jeans. She was attracted to him because he was alone. All the other guys in the bar were trying to get some girl or another's attention. But he was sitting in a corner, nursing on a Budweiser. She kept trying to pull her eyes away from him, and back to her date, but it was no u...
It was Friday, five o'clock in the evening when Sanura Moore sat at her desk shaking her head, looking bewilderedly at her computer screen. She just finished a report that had to be submitted to the vice president of product development, Adam Sheridan. She stepped away from her cubicle to run to the restroom a short distance down the hall. Upon returning to...
It began as these things often do. She blew in from the street, her coat held around her in an attempt to combat the chill in the outside air. Her hair was windblown and tousled as she slipped into the seat next to him and tossed a crumpled piece of paper holding directions unceremoniously onto the table in front of her. They went on about mundane things...
“I’m kind of nervous,” I said to Jake, as we stood in front of the door to his friend’s apartment. I was still buried in layers of winter clothes; gray snow dripped off my boots onto the welcome mat. “Why? You’ll like my friends.” He stopped and hugged me, kissed the top of my head. “I’m glad that you’re getting to meet them. They were beginning to think I...