"Lift and squeeze. Lift and tuck. Lift and squeeze. Squeeze hold." Darcy moved in and out among her 4:15 pm class, the most sparsely attended of all the days' classes, adjusting positions of already-thin women to make sure they were working the right areas, banishing fat that lived only in their broken minds. There were only five of them in the class, if she...
It is funny how most times in life you don't see the life changing moment when it happens, that those times are often subtle and hidden from you until in hindsight you see how the decision you made at a given moment altered the entire trajectory of your journey. Yet other times you can see the fork in the road clearly or maybe, in my case, the better metapho...
She stood up, stepping out of the taxi, straightening her dress as she turned to look towards the source of the sound. The evening was warm without being a single degree to hot and it carried the mash of sounds easily from the well lit and well presented house that was crawling with its young guests. The house seemed almost alive as people danced across the...
It is often asked what Mrs Claus gets up to while the big man in the red suit is speeding across the sky in his sleigh, delivering gifts to the children of the world...a few years ago, I had the privilege of discovering the answer to that question. With the world population rapidly expanding towards eight billion, the traditional elvish labour force had bec...
Raven walked into her apartment and flopped down on her sofa (which has seen better days) with a little 'oomph'. "Why do all men have to be jerks, Diablo? Is it in their programming or something? Can't at least one of them want to have a decent conversation without staring at my body?" But, with her wild riot of auburn curls dancing around her shoulders,...
I've anticipated this for so long, since the very first time we met in that chat room. You were different, but I didn't know why at the time. I was immediately attracted to you. As our relationship grew, we would chat for hours, about anything. We'd make each other laugh, cry, think. We challenged each other with our conversation, but never alienated each ot...
August was August. By that I mean everyone was busy; the kids were trying to get in the last of summer with their friends, Karen was preparing for fall classes, and Sandy and I returned to work. We moved Sandy in within a week, after having a king sized bed delivered. Now, you need to understand two things: first; while it's a four bedroom house; the kids...
Life Is Uncertain - Eat Dessert First! Copyright© 2008, 2012 by Stultus Thanks to Dowyd, Dragonsweb & DuffieDawg and several advance readers that prefer to maintain deniability Synopsis: Is it possible for a woman to cheat on her husband without ever having sex with another man? A former Navy officer and marine researcher discovers the answer, when his wif...
A siren wailed in the near distance; probably on the ring road that wound around his haven in The Village like a tarmac leviathan, bejewelled with pin-points of light in the night, hiding them securely from prying eyes. Enoch paid it no heed and peered through the dense cloud of smoke that served to momentarily obscure the teenage girl from his line of sight...
Deepa and Rudra were waiting in the lobby of what had been the Tata Centre, one of the first multi-storied office buildings in Calcutta. Now after weathering many storms, it was a shell of its past glory but Pandey-ji had occupied it and operated out of Rusi Mody's erstwhile office on the top floor. Today was the second day that Deepa was here. That was why...