A Night at the Theatre "Ok, I'll pick you up tomorrow evening. I'm looking forward to it. I love you honey. Mmmwaaahh," I hung up the phone. Pamela had invited me to the theatre. Her father had good connections to the theatre directors and managed to get free tickets, which he had kindly offered to us. Pamela was a wonderful lady and we had been a couple...
I try to shake off the cold as I stomp my feet into the art building. Small backpack slung over my shoulder, big, wet parka, and oversized winter boots... all soaked in the sticky, slushy snow of early December on campus. I'm trying to get to my job - it's an easy gig, just a couple of nights a week, and it pays better than anything else I could find, especi...
It was Christmas Eve. He looked at his watch as it reflected the lights of the tree that glowed brightly with many different lights. The watch was a gift that his fiancé gave him last year, before they were officially engaged. He changed the band of it multiple times in the year, but he kept the timepiece close to his heart. It was engraved on the back, and...
He leaned, carelessly, against the wall at the top of the stairs. From here he had a view of the whole room and everyone in it. "Boring." He thought, not for the first time that evening. The party, like every other party he'd been to that year, was boring and the people were, with only a couple of exceptions, all the same people who'd been to those parties...
Michael hurried to the airport. His plane was leaving in a mere hour and a half. Damn 9/11! What used to be a twenty minute ordeal was now a torturous hour saga. He finally cleared security and made the gate as they were completing general boarding. Naturally, the overhead bins were full. Michael looked forlornly as the pinch-faced flight attendant absconded...
It was supposed to be a holiday to enjoy and get things back on track. Instead after two days it had all gone wrong. My boyfriend, Dave, and I had been going through a rough patch. The idea was to spend a couple of weeks away from everyday pressures and sort things out. Well that was the idea but on the second day we had a big argument after he wanted to wat...
Rachael stood in line outside the crowded club waiting patiently to get in. Unlike the rest of the customers who were waiting to get in Rachael was in no real hurry, while they were there to find a new lover for the night or at least a couple of hours she was there to greet a killer. Rachael was a vampire but that did little to settle her nerves because inci...
Mary Dennison was too old for a schoolgirl crush, but it didn't take long for her to realize that's exactly what she had on her backyard neighbor, Charlie Kent. At first they had bonded over shared loss. Mary, at forty-eight, had lost her husband to cancer. Charlie, who Mary thought was about fifty-five, had moved into the neighborhood a few months after tha...
"The Palliser," I said. "Call me when you get to the parking garage." Finally! We had been waiting for months and now we were to meet. Twenty minutes later another ring. "Suite 531, just like your birthday, the door will be open," I told my beautiful partner. Now I relaxed in the oversized chair for the most desirable woman in the world. The door silen...
You sat there, awaiting word. There had been rumors, whispers about a man who had been seen wandering the underworld, in search of something, of someone…you. The throne upon which you sat was made of finery though anyone could have walked within a few feet of you and would not know as such. There was no light here, ever because that was the way you liked it,...