Ashley sat on the stool, her bare legs and feet kicking idly while she slowly sipped her Starbucks. Caramel Macchiato, her favorite. It always served to calm her nerves and take her to a happy place, a function it was doing now - even with the blur of events still rushing through her mind's eye. First, the memory of her mother, naked in bed with the big, b...
Having just finished work, I decided to stop at a local bar, have a few beers, and unwind before going home. The bar was full and I was looking for a place to sit and relax. "Hey Nick, over here." It was a friend of mine, his name was Ken. I joined Ken and Leon, a black guy that I also knew from the bar. They wanted to know how my marriage was going. Linda...
Ava stretched up to string lights around the top of her flimsy, charley-brown Christmas tree. A man would be helpful at this moment, but that's wasn't in the cards this Christmas. She sighed as she took a step back and to look her little tree up and down -- not bad for having done it alone. As she sunk down into the couch, she felt -- intensely -- her single...
Alice was late for her job interview. Her alarm clock hadn't gone off, and here she was, in an elevator dragging a comb through her tangled brown hair. She hadn't even had time to shower, so grabbed a small bottle of perfume from her purse and unbuttoned her blouse. She gave herself a couple of quick sprays to freshen up, realising it might have been a good...
Last night I thought I'd died and gone to heaven. It all started with a fight I had with my supposed girlfriend. Seems I wasn't the only one she was dating. We had only been dating for about 6 months. I knew she had broken up with a previous boyfriend, but I didn't know they had gotten back together. They had gotten back together about 10 weeks into our rela...
HEADNOTE: "Schoolies" is a debauched week of celebration which occurs soon after the end of the Higher School Certificate; the high school leaving exam and University admissions test in Australia. It might be compared to spring break in the US. Holiday towns organise tightly controlled entertainment, part of which entails the wearing of coloured bracelets t...
Sarah stood in the shade of the thatch-roofed picnic shelter, sipping on a diet coke as she spitefully contemplated how her weekend had been completely ruined. After two continuous weeks of stressful work, she had been relishing this much needed weekend to herself. That was until Friday night, when a dreaded phone call from her cheerily coercive mother had e...
I was in Rio de Janeiro on business. I knew Rio had a reputation for sexual liberation. My problem was finding the hot spots since I had no knowledge of Portuguese. I had been divorced for three months. My ex-wife, Charlene, had been a frigid bitch. She claimed I cheated on her and even tried to catch me at it. So what if I did have a few women? Charlene co...
Author's note: If you check my bio you will see what I was wearing in the story. I watched with amazement and increasing excitement as the tall well-built, dark skinned guy and the statuesque blonde stood facing each other just a short distance apart. She was wearing a yellow, sleeveless minidress with silver buttons up the front, he was wearing a mid-thig...
After the coming of the Darkula, survival is all that matters... A story in the tradition of the 'Man's Action Adventure' pulp magazines. There's movement, from the floors below. So she's pacing on the raw stalks of nerves. Strange days. Scared of what every sound portends. Been sealed up here for a month, keeping the mad world at bay. Keeping to shadows...