It all started with a shrimp ring and my desperate desire to fit in. So there I was, done up in a fluffy black cocktail dress, four-inch Mary Janes that I'd worn to prom, and pearls, surrounded by restless homosexual men in ugly Norwegian sweaters, looking at the remains of a very stinky shrimp ring that was supposed to be the main course in our pescataria...
Again, I must thank bebop3 for the pertinent suggestions. *Translation: Bituin and Tala = star Langit = sky or heaven Bulalakaw = comet Liwayway = dawn Luningning = brightness Pina = pineapple Enkantada = any being who hails from the enchanted lands (fairies, nymphs, sylphs, ogres, trolls, etc.) *All the characters in this story are above 18 year...
The hardest thing to do is to begin with goodbye. To watch the world spin for only a moment, and to know, that the beginning of this moment, would soon become a silence, a stillness. Love is always the end. While I had known the man before me, for so long, I could never be sure when it was that I met him. The question always arose; can you know a man whom...
Upon entering the flower shop, he thought he needed a little something to brighten his day. He thought about how things were going for him and the melancholy had settled in to be a way of life. He went right for the cut flowers thinking a bouquet would do the trick, to put some color in his otherwise gray life. After staring at the varieties in front of him,...
Amanda was starting to get a little jumpy, this feeling that started at the back of her neck, like the hair standing up on end. She couldn't get over it and it was distracting. She was starting to look behind herself nervously. Damned if she wasn't keeping her eyes on the doors. She tried to shrug this off and wasn't doing a good job. The party was a wash, s...
Author's note. Though this is one story in eight chapters, each of the chapters is itself a self-contained story of exactly a hundred words. This is in homage to "Flash Fiction" by Chicklet. I thought it was a superb idea as soon as I saw it. I have even used the same eight titles that Chicklet did, hoping they won't mind. * * * * * Reluctance The night i...
-You are James Hart, a 27 year old . Today is your wedding day - you are marrying Nina Farley, a beautiful woman you've dated since two years ago. Due to an accident with a mysterious wedding gift, Nina switches bodies with another member of the wedding party shortly before the wedding. The three of you decide to find a way to reverse the transformation It's...
It had been quite some time since the third mysterious photo arrived in my mailbox, so I was quite surprised to return from work and find yet another manila envelope bearing a cancellation mark from Milwaukee. I purposely waited until after dinner before sitting in my small office to open the envelope. Inside was yet another five-by-seven photograph, with...
As Erin's lips slid down over my length I gasped and lay back on the couch. Relief suffused me: the only sound apart from her wet murmuring and my groaning was the distant noise of traffic. There was no hint at all of that hideous fluting which had dogged me for so long. The curse had finally been lifted! A few drinks after work had led from one thing to a...
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