Chapter Twelve Everyone at the hospital liked Abisali, the gentle caring doctor who was well spoken, courteous and always had time for the hospital staff. Available to help others, giving advice when called upon and involved with several charities. He had written numerous articles for medical journals and was a successful, compassionate and thoughtful man....
The Trampoline Chapter 1 Caleb trudged wearily down the stairs. What should have taken ten minutes, had taken an hour. His daughter had refused to sleep after just one story and he'd sworn on each of the subsequent five stories that this was "the last one." He reached into the fridge for a cold soda, craving something sweet but caffeinated. He'd heard...
In the city of Brockton, Massachusetts, progress is made every day. Want to know why? Because of the actions of one man. Samuel Xavier. Brother Samuel to his friends. My job is to find the man-haters, the racists and the sociopaths ( men and women without conscience ) where they gather and to mess them up. I infuriate them. I harass them. I intimidate them....
Mardi Gras: Part One, Bourbon Street Taking "Min" BACK,, to the "Big Easy",,, and being as close as two people can be.~~~~ We stand. Balcony. Johnny White's. Corner of Bourbon Street & Orleans. The crowd below us is going WiLd for you. And you stand, like some worshiped Aphrodite. Your adoring public below you, Screaming to you. BEGGING you! You look...
I am trying something different with these stories. Instead of writing a single narrative, I have written 10 vignettes from a relationship. Each chapter alternates between the point of view of the two main characters and is written as if talking to the other person. In addition, I have written each chapter as a quickie; all of the stories are 1,000 words or...
So, the pandemic rages on, and my wife and I have been out of work for months. my wife's job as a ballerina was completely out of the question as all theater work was shut down. My job was not much better and prospects were slim. I was having trouble making the rent and I knew that we were going to have to find a place to stay. Well, I don't have a ton of f...
We were in Japan staying at her family home. It was afternoon and her mother and cousins were preparing a meal. Our help was not needed, we'd been told- we'd been in the way- and Akemi and I repaired to the bedroom to prepare our stuff. We had either just arrived or were leaving the next day, anyway needed to organize our luggage, such as it was. Not a big j...
This is my contribution to the Quarantine story contest 2020. Please remember to vote at the end and thanks for taking the time to read. A special thanks go to AussieGuy52 for editing this story. Themes: Friends to lovers, Happily ever after, Office romance, Opposites attract, Taming the playboy, Love triangle, Matchmaker, On the road, Stranded, Unrequite...
Hi, thank you for reading my first story! I just wanted to write a story that builds its own universe. I invite anyone to write their own chapter at any point on the timeline and put their own spin on it (as long as it doesn't mess with my main characters' story). I plan on writing stories that focus during the outbreak and way into the future when society i...
My phone buzzed inside the laundry basket beside me. It was muzzled underneath my sweat-soaked running shirt and shorts. I was sitting on the toilet, no intention of using it, just somewhere to down the last pale purple dreg of my smoothie while waiting for a phone call. I had a therapy session scheduled at three-thirty which was just moments away. Since q...