Lana woke up in a foul mood for the fourth morning in a row; she brewed some coffee and lit a cigarette. She had barely slept through the night, thanks to the new, noisy neighbor and his loud screaming bimbo. For the entire past week, the new neighbor—who remained a faceless presence to Lana—was drilling holes on the walls and hammering furniture together in...
Her 25-year high school reunion did not go as Marina had envisioned it. Of course, she had also set the bar pretty damn high; she had hoped to impress her classmates with her still firm body, her youthful looks, her social status—admittedly acquired via her husband, who owned a supermarket chain. However, no one paid too much attention to her: David—her hig...
"Look, Mrs. Tyler," Mr. Radcliff—the high-school basketball coach (and former European basketball superstar)—said, "I'm gonna be honest with you, even if it goes against school's policy." "What do you mean?" She raised her eyebrow, inspecting carefully the tall, balding man, who still retained his physique from the years he was considered a stud of the cour...
"So, what do you think?" Gina asked anxiously. "I don't know..." Dana rubbed her forehead hard, stupefied. "I mean..." "You think it was faked, somehow; don't you?" "No, I...well, yes," she admitted with a sigh. "To be honest, I think you're trying to make a fool out of Tony. For dragging you over there." "You do remember the condition you found me in,...
"You know," Bob said solemnly, "it's beginning to get tiresome." "Look," Laura replied, after a long hit out of the wine bottle, "you just have to show some patience, some...don't let it bring you down." "Easy for you to say!" He accepted the bottle, and smirked. "You'll never know how it feels being totally invisible!" "You're being too dramatic, Bob,"...
"What in the hell are we doing here?" Gina protested angrily. "There are far better ways to spend a Friday night." "Stop nagging!" Tony erupted. "Look at it as a one in a lifetime experience." "I'd rather experience the food at that new Chinese restaurant." "Gina, try to look at the bright side," Dana intercepted. "Which is?" Gina raised her eyebrow. "...
When Boredom Creeps In Rita lifted her exhausted, aching eyes from her copy of History of Western Philosophy, feeling as if a raging fire was ravaging her mind; she leaned back on the leather office chair, stretched, and several cracks echoed in her silent small apartment illuminated only by the lamp attached to the desk, its bright white light falling dire...
"A penny for your thoughts," Gina said. "I'm just..." Dana cleared her throat, slowly emerging out of the dense mist of pondering. "I've just been thinking about the other night." "Makes sense," Gina nodded in perfect understanding. "No, I'm not talking about..." she sighed heavily. "Okay, yes, also about that. But," her voice turned sterner, "mostly, a...
It was with a heavy heart—alas, with guilty enthrallment, too—Marlene had accepted her friend's Jennie's invitation for a Saturday night out in the city. It'd been nearly seven years since she last went out—namely, since she entered her second trimester with Ricky. "Jon'll be fine!" Jennie tried to cheer her up, as they drove through the heavily trafficked...
"Stan, I'm not sure about this," Layla said with a faint tremor in her voice, as she glared at the dark mist-engulfed forest surrounding them through the car windows. "Oh, come on," he chuckled and continued to plant long, wet kisses on her neck and exposed shoulders, "don't tell me you're actually afraid." "There've just been...too many rumors, reports......