"Hi, my name's Rebecca." She said across the aisle between our desks. Now, I have never considered myself a smooth talker, and certainly not at the age of fourteen, but the first words out of my mouth were "It should be Sky. Because of your sky blue eyes." This conversation took place the first day of high school. The day I met my future wife. I can't say...
"I've got an interesting new patient for you, Dan," his supervisor's voice said. "I think you will find her very... challenging." Dan hung up the phone and waited for the file to arrive. Turning his chair, he surveyed the office. The walls were painted a warm cream colour. Wooden bookshelves filled two walls from floor to ceiling, still only partially full,...
This chapter contains two stories of a life-changing nature. In both, people stepped forward and gave of themselves to help strangers that really needed the help. As noted in the other three chapters, kindness is not rare, just under-reported. The purpose of this series is to let readers become writers and tell their stories of unexpected and unconditional k...
Please read my profile for my stance on comments. Feel free to email suggestions or to start a conversation. Private messages work too. Frank Beard; Billy Gibbons; Dusty Hill: "I got a girl, she lives on the hill. She won't do it but her sister will, when she boogie, she do the tube snake boogie." + + + + I've always thought that I had a good sense of ri...
Though the overhanging black expanse of a new umbrella kept the pouring rain away from Amos Jefferson's head, it could not keep his face free of the saline moisture that had formed about his ebony eyes. As he stood silently, the gusting October wind began to whip the raindrops sidelong at the lower extremities of his pants. Tilting his umbrella to compensate...
The Meekering Incident was fifteen years in the making, and it had a profound effect on me and those around me. I had arrived home from LA an hour ago, Mum had called to tell me that Dad was in a bad way and was not expected to live for any more than a couple of weeks, a month tops. I haven't been near this place for fifteen years, ever since I left for the...
WARNING: This is an adult story, containing sensitive material of a sexual nature, including graphic descriptions of consensual, "vanilla" sex within marriage. If you find such material offensive or are underage, do not read further, but please bypass this story for one more suitable for you. This story is written for enjoyment and entertainment purposes...
FOUR: "Resurrection of the Lost" Angela's eyes fluttered open several hours later. She was very weak, her muscles feeling like lead. It took her several minutes to be able to focus her eyes and even longer before she could attempt to sit up. Once she accomplished that, she started to take in her surroundings. She was in what looked like a hospital room, tho...
Alice woke up with a start; she had had another nightmare, only this time it seemed so real. She got up and walked to the window of her small room that was her home, and her prison. Alice had been locked in Williams mental hospital for almost a year now. She did not remember much of her life outside the hospital, mostly just bits and pieces of a broken child...
This story follows the short descriptive tales of the Blob, a fictional alien character, based in a post war-time, 1960's-esque civilisation. Miranda, a buxom girl of big heart and even bigger breasts, and her friend, Jane, a small and stout beauty of dark hair and hypnotisingly striking features, find discarded barrels of alien fluid. Overcome by the mind c...