It was a mundane accident; a spilled coffee to be exact, but the consequences were anything but ordinary. Marissa rushed to work, late because of her delayed commute; a norm during her three years in New York. The hustle and bustle of the city was unlike anything she experienced in the backwoods of North Carolina, and later during her college days at Chappel...
Meena Patel walked up and down the dreary street between her house and her children's school twice every day, just part of her stifling routine of domestic duties. In the morning she left the kids, aged 5 and 7, and returned home to cleaning, shopping and cooking the evening meal. In the afternoon, she trudged back to the school gates and collected them, the...
To any American readers: Apologies in advance for my attempt at putting a Southern accent into prose. * "Hey Alice!" Heather, the new editor shouted across the office, "You like that singer... Hank Brooklyn, don't you?" I looked up from my PC smiled and nodded in her direction. "You can have this if you want," she continued shouting, "It's just come in...
March 7th 2008 So I must apologize, I've been neglecting you Isabella! It's harder than I thought to keep a journal! I assumed I'd be able to just empty the contents of my mind at the end of each day directly into word form for you but you know, a lot of the time when I get home I'm too damn tired to pick up a fork let alone a pen! Speaking of forks, after...
My mother used to tell me to always give men a little mystery if I wanted to keep them around. I didn't understand what she meant until I really started paying attention to boys. She was so right, but despite remembering all of that, Trevor's power over me ruled my actions. It was so difficult to contain my desire that I was sure that he could tell how badly...
How about a fantasy for my wife with a stranger when I'm not around... During your summer vacation you are finally able to spend sometime at home and get some things done around the house that you've been wanting to get done for quite awhile. You are also making some new purchases that have been long overdue and getting numerous deliveries. On one particul...
A very large part of my life has been lived by how others have told me to live it and I was getting really sick and tired of everyone's bull shit. I was told where to go for fun, what to eat, what to drink, how to dress, who should be my friends, stay away from them, and the boring list goes on. One day I sat down and made a list of what I liked and I wasn't...
Nadia Khan looked at the tall, dark and handsome African-American man who lay next to her. Hard to believe that a year ago, her husband Omar Jackson considered himself an atheist and a soldier of the United States of America. Now he was a practicing Muslim and a hard-working herdsman and farmer living in the woods outside Multan, one of the largest cities of...
Kammie was a busy woman. Her position as real estate acquisitions for a large electric generation and transmission company kept her on her toes. Always planning ahead, it was her job to secure real estate for the business as quietly as possible to keep the costs down. Mapping and maintaining all the geographic information was a daunting task. She was very g...
It was after midnight when I arrived at this little hole-in-the-wall called Runaround Sue's, not my usual type of nightclub. I had already been drinking and it was close to my place. I heard the country western music coming from the place before I parked my car, so I parked in front of a business that was already closed a cross the street. I heard a little...