We were taking an overnight trip across the state on a bus line. We were sitting at the seat furthest to the back, close to the restrooms. I couldn't sleep at all on the bumpy ride but the other passengers apparently could. The lights in the bus compartment were turned off and the window shades were drawn so it was quite dark. You were resting your shoulder...
The China Clipper bobbed at its moorings at the wharf, its engines were shut off and its normally bright aluminum skin was dulled from the pelting of an incessant rain. The large seaplane had just come from Manila that morning and was awaiting orders at the Pan Am reserved birth at end of a long pier. A man in a white cap looked anxiously out the window of t...
All people in this story are fictional and 18 or older. Enjoy this loveable teacher and he special study group. ***** I sat in front of my final class, remedial American history, why I chose to teach this subject I have no idea. It's so boring talking about what any American with common sense knew is just boring. I envy Ms. Grey, the health teacher, she ge...
I always celebrate my August birthday with a morning run. I run most days anyway, but when it's my birthday I'm more intentional about thinking of it as a celebratory moment. This is especially true when I reach the milestone of another decade. Today I'm turning 40. Wow! I think back to my 20th birthday -- I was a college student. I think back to my 30th --...
Welcome to the Crescent City in May. New Orleans has a mean elevation of 5 feet above sea level. It is 181 square miles. It is populated by Jews, niggers, hipsters, freaks and do-gooders. Most of the rest of the space is taken up by my big fat ass and bad attitude. I'm still at work, but the day is winding down. The office is quiet. It's 5:30pm. Striped su...
Kendra walked into her bathroom, turning the hot water tap of her tub on full blast. Her husband, Ryan, had left today on yet another business trip. She untied her robe, letting the silk pool at her feet. She stood before the mirror, trying to analyze what had gone wrong in the marriage. Kendra stood at about 5'8", and at 28 she still had the same smooth, si...
~An interview with a female vampire~ ~Taping begin~ What I am about to confess may shock you (men out there). You see for quite sometimes now I have been enduring, waiting, watching, and yearning for this opportunity to seek my own revenge on the assholes in my life. No I will not rape them as some powerful women see it a way to belittle men; but I will go...
Clara sat in the gloom in the kitchen of her lake cabin. The sun had set without her. Soon no sunsets would have her adoring gaze. She was terminally ill. She had considered going home to Felicity but decided that it would be cruel to have her mother and sisters watch her die. She did not want them to suffer too. Her cancer had spread throughout her body....
Marine Sgt. Junio del Mundo peered through his battered binoculars across the bow of the BRP Teresa Magbanua. The sea mist kicked up by the new Philippine Navy cutter stung his face as he stood there, stolidly watching as they drew closer to the wrecked hulk of the BRP Sierra Madre. It's just a regular supply drop, Jun, he told himself as he ran his scarred...
I'm not going to pretend that I just turned an innocent eighteen years old when these events occurred. I was eighteen and a half when I entered college, with all the experience that eighteen years of living provides a girl, and much closer to nineteen than the big one eight when most of this story takes place. It was my good fortune to meet two people who w...