What is it with this fellow upstairs? Five evenings now I have been sitting here, outside my holiday apartment sipping...no...guzzling my Sangria and savouring my Olives, head buried in a novel. Somewhere above (it's difficult to tell exactly where, the way the sound bounces off the walls) there seems to be a man holding conversations with himself. At least...
As I sit here typing I can feel as my sinuses fill up like a heavy water balloon ready to burst. The pressure pushes against my eyes causing an annoying pain; they feel as if they are about to pop out of my head. I can barely see the screen as I continue to write the story I am working on. My throat dry as the desert, tortured by the blast of the powerful...
6:35AM on a Thursday morning, and I was in a strange city for a conference. Granted, it was nice to get away from the office for a few days, but I certainly would have preferred to spend the time away from the office with my baby girl. By sheer luck, I had been given a hotel room overlooking a park with a large lake, connected by a short, narrow river to o...
What is real, and what isn’t? This is a question that I’ve had to ask myself more and more recently. My entire life seems to have become a horror story. As I type this, rain taps the windows, the house moans against the wind, and something scratches from behind the walls. I may be going crazy. Who is to say what is real? I mean, molecules and microbes mak...
The phone didn't ring. Susan wavered back and forth between staring at the phone and staring away. She remembered her mother always told her, "A watched pot will never boil." Susan wondered if that cliche' went for telephones or even lives. Her house looked different, hell, it was different. Black cars were parked all around it and inside there was a murmur...
You walk in the door after a long day at work. You kick your shoes off and set your keys on the end table. As you turn around to lock the door you hear a noise from the other end of the house. You know no one is supposed to be there. As you try to hone in on the sound, you realize it is coming from your bedroom. You grab the nearest thing to you that looks e...
It was a lovely hot summer day in August and he was taking her to the local nude beach just as he had promised. It was her second time there and he could see that she was happy to be going back. The first time had been a lot of fun. They went far out on the sandbar so she could get used to the idea without a lot of people around. This time he planned to put...
The phone was ringing again and again. It was already 9 a.m. but Mike was still sleeping since his wife Maggie was on that vacation trip to Turkey. Slowly he was getting up and walking to the fucking phone that disturbed his sweet dreams. "Hello?" he said in an unfriendly tone. "Hi Mike, this is Danielle. How are you doing this morning?" a wonderful voice w...
Mike set his books down as he walked in the door. Another long week of high school finished with. He ran his fingers through his brown hair and stretched as he walked to the kitchen to find something to eat. His parents had said they would be out of town for the whole weekend, giving him some solitude. Mike's sister Sarah was also going to be home, but she w...
I was randy as hell and had been saving myself for tonight. Excitement arose in my cheeks as I began to imagine later. The club was hot I scanned the place for talent and saw a few potential players, sipped my drink, while giving my guy a cheeky smile. He had an idea of what I wanted and I could tell he was thinking those dirty thoughts of his, he gave my bu...