How did I ever get into this ridiculous situation? I mean, who has ever heard of a grown man being hospitalized for extreme poison ivy irritation anyway? My sad tale began a few weeks ago while hiking when I clumsily fell down a hill and, as fate would have it, landed smack dab in the largest poison ivy bush I believe exists. Talk about your shitty luck, an...
"Take off your clothes and put on this robe, it ties in the back like this," explained the 60-something nurse, as Jaynthe tried to imagine the tiny paper gown covering anything but a tiny part of her torso. "There's a restroom through that door, feel free to use it. Dr. Smith will be with you in just a moment." Jaynthe nodded and gave a quick, nervous smile...
Shannon sighed as her beeper chirped. She was hoping that things would stay quiet in the ER until her relief came, but it seemed that was not to be. All she wanted to do was put this last hour in and head down to the nearby pub, Code Blue, for a quick drink. She hear rumors that her favorite actor, Colin Farrell, had been frequenting the establishment practi...
Seeing Tommy at the high school reunion brought back memories. He hadn't been my first boyfriend, or even my most remembered, and far from my favorite, but he had played an important role in my life the summer after our senior year. Now I was divorced, and he was married with a couple of little kids. Married to Janet, a girl he'd known in high school. She'd...
I'm fairly average. Non-athletic but pretty smart, not particularly attractive, mild acne problems. I'm kind of quirky, but I've been told that's good, one of these quirks is something that most girls seem to like; my hair. It's brown, right now it fades to almost a golden-brass color, from when I had dyed it blue then bleached it, and it's long, down inbetw...
Hi everyone! A thousand pardons for taking so long to continue this story – it's been eighty percent finished for months! I'll make sure hubby gives me a good, hard spanking for being so tardy. ;-) Jack and I sat in the empty waiting room of Dr. Fairchild's clinic, as the reception staff left for the day, wishing us a good night as they departed. I noticed...
All I can remember is that the cold November night was dark, foggy and rainy. I was driving as slow as possible not being able to see well through the fog. Suddenly I saw darkness and my car stops giving me no hope of turning on again. I hit the steering wheel and curse loudly. It had been such a long hard day at work and I was tired and ready to come home....
Debs and Bev made themselves comfortable on the bed for what was going to be a very uncomfortable encounter. Sid tidied the room and got dressed. There was enough time to make a cup of tea for Bev and Debs which demonstrated that things were bad. The English typically reach for the teapot in a crisis. Conversation since the 'incident' had been polite and n...
It was just after midday when Elvis Mutton drove into the Plymouth Hotel car park on the West Coast of New Zealand in the pink Cadillac with a white roof as personalised number plates, 'MEMPHIS'. Elvis had purchased the wreck from a junkyard in Reefton in the South Island for fifty bucks plus the cost of four new white-wall tyres. He checked in to the cheap...
I wondered sometimes how I'd gotten into this position. Not that I was complaining: I had an "essential" job, so even in the coronavirus era I was still getting a paycheck. But I was barely scraping by, and my effing landlord refused to cut us apartment dwellers a break. My fellow tenants were also unhappy. Most of them no longer had jobs. With the country...