( A Christmas Carol - With apologies to Mr. Dickens) Jack was depressed... Here it was almost Christmas and he still hadn't found the perfect gift, (or any gift for that matter) for his wife Jenny. This past month had been a bitch. He couldn't remember when a holiday season had been as incredibly hectic for his business as this one had been. He had been on...
It was my first day at the tuition and I felt a little anxious. Maybe the anxiousness was probably due to the fact that I was 20 years old and still in school. I met with an accident when I was 13 and had to take rest for 2 years. So, now here I was, 20 years old and attending maths tuition. It was a special tuition arranged by my mom for me and it had been...
* Author's foreword: I'm sorry to say that, due to problems finding an editor, this is an unedited version of the story. Please stop reading right here if you have any problems in reading text what might contain errors in grammar and word order. An edited version will be out as soon as present problems are solved. * Jimmie Svenson was a real friend who d...
1. Charley, Jordan, Nicky and Hal drank in the middle of an empty room – so empty that it couldn't be called a room at all. It was more like a space. It was due to be a kitchen sometime in the next seven weeks (give or take). Until then, the space, and therefore, Charley and Hal, were trapped in the purgatory of a home remodel. The walls were stripped of...
My culture is conservative, but that doesn't mean I have to be. Religion and culture are important, of course, but so is the individual. The name is Warsama "Sam" Osman, and I'm a tall, skinny and perpetually bald-headed young Black man of Somali descent living in metropolitan Calgary, province of Alberta. Why am I perpetually bald? It's a rare condition I'v...
Meet Arini "Rini" Ketiga, a young Indonesian Muslim transsexual living in the City of Ottawa, Ontario. She's originally from the City of Surabaya, Indonesia, and has been living in the Canadian Capital for about a decade. Two years ago, Arini became a Canadian citizen, and she's trying to change the narrative about both people of color and transsexuals in No...
Marcella Henry watches over a sentient computer at night. What she doesn't know is that the computer also watches her. This is a GEEK / NERD story. The beginning is very technical and is not at all sexy. The last portion gets sexy. Depending on how this is received, I will most likely be writing additional stories of PLATO, Helen, and others. They won't nee...
Note: I've tried to make this story work as a stand-alone tale, but for anyone wanting to see what leads up to the beginning of this story, this one picks up right where "Katie's World is Rocked by a Coat" leaves off. Thanks for reading! ***** "You saw WHO?" Amanda demanded of Ryan, "And HOW?" Her flustered boyfriend was pretty sure he'd been clear ab...
I think this was like in my sophomore year at Oceanview U. in southern California. Christmas rolled around, and I went home to Japan. One of the people I wanted to see was my cousin, Namie. I mainly see her on special occasions, but she's always been nice to me, and we're kind of friends. She's older than me, and married now, but to me at least, she's one of...
Nina dragged into work several minutes late. Her tardiness was not the first thing her co-worker Teresa Schuster noticed about her. Teresa had been a friend of many years' standing, and she had been invaluable in helping Nina through the trauma of her divorce. She was several years older than Nina, edging toward forty, and had been happily (or at least sat...