We had a cleaning lady come to our house every other Friday and she worked about 5 hours cleaning our house. Her routine was simple. She would arrive about 7:30 am, being dropped off from a full sized van that had about 6 other ladies that were driven to various locations in our suburban area. She had a key to our home so she let herself in and proceeded to...
I work as the head housekeeper in a slightly run-down but decent hotel. I don’t hate my job most of the time, but there are days when nothing seems to go right and I wish I worked anywhere else. I was having one of those days last Friday. Two of my girls hadn’t shown up, using lame excuses to call off and forcing me to have to clean twenty of the forty-fiv...
The sun was just starting to set on the shoreline of Carolina Beach. Jack looked out onto his balcony to see the sunlight reflected off of the clouds and onto the sea. Brilliant hues of orange, red and pink created an incredible view. He thought about it a moment and then got up and got an ice cold beer from the refrigerator and stepped out onto the open bal...
It was that time of year again, the time I dread the most...tax time! I typically don't look forward to having our taxes prepared although I have known Phil for more than 20 years. Phil knew my first wife and was genuinely pleased to meet my current wife Jolene at our wedding and then again that year when we had our taxes done. Jolene has always had an eye f...
My wife and I had hired a lawn service for the summer. They came out every five weeks and applied fertilizer pellets and sometimes sprayed for weeds. Usually one or two guys came out and spent an hour running back and forth over the yard and that was it. I had noticed a profusion of dandelions spring up across our wooded back yard and I called the service...
HER: Sitting alone at a tiny table in a dimly lit club, the music roaring around me, the bass kicking hard in my chest, I felt eyes on me. I scanned the crowd, but everyone seem to be preoccupied and in their own little world, moving to the beat of the music almost in unison. Then I saw him, a rather nice looking older gentlemen standing alone, his dark and...
Part Three: Christine's interpretation It had been nigh on an hour since my Maestro had left me upon the stage, waiting for my curtain to rise, and still, his instructions bewildered me. "When the curtain rises, you will take your bows and the performance will begin." I had attempted to question him, saying that such was not the way Foust opened, but he w...
{Because the mall is a magical place at Christmastime.} "Hey, Elf!" His name, of course, wasn't really Elf, but he'd been working at the main court in the mall for the past three years as Santa's helper and after correcting hundreds, no, thousands of small children who insisted on calling him "Elf", he answered to just about anything. Besides, he did have...
"Clean up time," said Tiffany when Bill had disappeared down the lake to his camp. "I got the tent," said Susan. "You deal with the stuff out here. The women turned to and in short order the bedding was hanging on a line in the morning sun and the tent floor was swept. Tiffany cleaned up around the fire pit and checked their food cache, then hoisted part o...
In which Elenora of the Sword is briefly interrupted in one of her preferred pastimes, ridding Perversia of its more grotesque inhabitants, and is told of a new task which she must fulfill. In addition we meet the human sword for hire Martin Riverknife, and learn of his feelings for his current employer, which leads to an unfortunate conflict. In a glade le...