"It should only be a few more minutes now," the well-dressed blonde who had been introduced to them earlier as Lisa said, adjusting the wireless headset she was wearing. "If anyone needs to make a last minute trip to the bathroom, it's right across the hall." "Thanks, but I'm fine," the sandy haired eighteen year old sitting in the easy chair to her left sa...
Alex was sitting at his desk. wiping the sweat from his brow for the umpteenth time that afternoon. The heat in his office was his only indication of the announced heat-wave outside. There were no windows, no breeze, nothing to cool him down. His mind wandering he started to surf the net and quickly found himself 'accidentally' visit some erotic sites. Engro...
-- Saturday -- This was it! The grand finale was hitting the home stretch! Time for a status update. It was make-or-break time, 'cause I was down a buncha scores. It was all-or-nothing, 'cause I had totally gotten outmaneuvered by Ortega. Despite everything that had happened, the task was still the same. I had to broker new contacts for LGZ. The goal was...
My name is Melanie, and I am a student at a large state university—a place that has quite a reputation as a party school. Actually, it would be more accurate to say that I am masquerading as a student to get some interesting perspectives on college life in the millennial age. I am really a writer/blogger working for an alternative newspaper. My editor approa...
Was this really the place? Nancy McCammon was looking at a small New Age shop on the corner of two narrow streets. 'Crystal Soul' was written on the door in bright pink letters. Whoever owned it had to be a complete flake. Still, Paula had said it was the place to go so Nancy put aside her reservations and walked through the door. A little bell tinkled over...
Jenny's fourth day was a training day offsite. I felt like my old self again, challenging my team to do better work on a new campaign, and even closing a new client who had been delaying making a decision for several months. Of course, I did think of Jenny...especially her smooth white legs and her sexy smirk, but I was able to shake it off, even laugh as I...
Senator Bruce Reingold of Indiana sat listening as Senator Gary Harris of California, a fellow member of the Environment and Public Works Committee, droned on with his normal rhetorical tirade against the American way of life. "...SUVs have got to go, there is no earthly reason for any sane person to own or drive one. Their gas mileage is an abomination; the...
My name is Dr. James Carson. I am a 27 year old Archeologist worth over a little more than 5 billion dollars. I have been called a genius by some, partly because I graduated high school at ten and by the age of seventeen held a doctorate in archeology/ anthropology from UCLA. But mainly because of my prowess with women. I can have any woman with only a few c...
--Week 2 - Saturday-- It was Saturday morning, and I got woken up by the ring of my alarm clock. This wasn't my usual weekend routine as I preferred to sleep in. However, I was pretty sure that this wouldn't by a usual weekend anyways. D-Rod was coming by to take me to the shopping mall so I had to get ready. He hadn't said what he was planning to do there....
Long days, sleepless nights, stress and anxiety. These plague everyone who must sacrifice their time to the daily grind of life. It is enough that practically everything suffers; health, relationships, understanding, enjoyment, anything that can be worth living for is thrown out for the soul crushing experience of life. But, at times, there are ways to comba...