My cell phone rang in the hotel and since I was in the shower my husband answered it. We were beach front on the azure waters of Grand Turk in the archipelago of the Turks & Caico's Islands so I did not expect it to ring. We were on the island for a week of diving and chilling. As busy professionals we just wanted to unwind and have a good time. "Who was it...
My routine on Saturday and Sunday mornings is so regular, it almost qualifies as a religious observance. Sleep late. Take a shower. Clean up. Go get bagels. I'm like clockwork. I know it's not that exciting, but it works for me. I'm a single guy in my 30s, past my party years, and my focus is mainly on my career. Weekend days are for relaxing. Weekend nigh...
The summer of my junior in high school, when I had just turned 18, I had a job at a wildlife sanctuary in Massachusetts. I and two other guys from different schools boarded at the director's house and worked to maintain the trails and gardens, clear brush, mow lawns, build a boardwalk through a swamp -- that kind of thing. It was fairly hard work. I also too...
Foreword These stories are based in Australia and written in the idiom the characters would use. Some issues in language variations I anticipated and built translations into my narrative. Others have caught me by surprise especially in their intensity. Generally, the intended meaning will be clear from the context if you don't cling too tightly to your us...
*All characters are fictional and over the age of 18. The young brunette teacher stepped up and boarded the bus. "One, two three..." she said, counting the students' heads poking above the seats. "...eight and nine. Okay, it looks like everyone is here. Are you guys ready for the waterpark?!" Ms. Centino excitedly called out. "Hell yeah!" Danny, one of...
My one friend Lisa who is my roommate and two others, Barbara and Jane, who where actually more Lisa’s friends than mine went to the Caribbean over winter break. Lisa and I were only invited when two of Barbara's friends bailed out at the last minute. I don't think Barbara actually wanted me to come since she seems to view me as a rival. I don't know why sin...
It had been a very long day already and we were all still looking at a 12 hour flight home. My wife and I and a group of friends had all just recently cut our trip to Vietnam a week short. The whole world was shutting down and we figured we should get home before anything crazy happened to us. While we missed out on a lot of the things we wanted to see, it w...
Having finished one of the best showers I have possibly ever had, we dried ourselves off and then Tracy folded her towel and hung it on the rail, before walking back into her room stark naked as the day she was born. Following suit, I wandered back into the bedroom, only to be ushered back to my own room by a demanding Tracy. "Nope, don't even think about i...
The combination of the shock of seeing Lucy and the fact that I had got so used to lounging around naked over the past few days meant that it took me a few seconds to realise that I was now standing in front of my best friend wearing nothing but sun block! Embarrassed, and much to Lucy's amusement, I awkwardly struggled into a T-shirt and my bikini bottoms w...
How the Four of us ended up in the pool together is a little bit blurry but my mind certainly cleared after that. Julie my wife and I attended a "Stralia" day party at a friend's house. These days were always great fun around the pool with a late lunch with games and plenty of drinks. The usual crowd was there with their kids plus other friends we saw fai...