When life takes a turn for the worse, sometimes fate – or God, or destiny, or whatever it is you believe makes sense of all this – looks back at you and realises you've had more than your fair share of hardship. After Jack's alcoholic stepfather beat him to a pulp that last time, so that he was lucky all his teeth were still there and would be lucky to recov...
It's a strange place, that few have heard of and even fewer have seen. Five hundred miles off the Pacific Coast of Mexico, the 6-mile-long Saint Agobard Island rises from the ocean, defying the waves which crash gently on its rocky shores. Hundreds of years ago, two ships full of Spaniards landed on the uninhabited island and dubbed it La Isla de San Agobar...
Katie was a senior at the Rosemont Academy for Girls in California, having just transferred across the country due to her father's job relocation. One of the perks of the company was a private education from one of the gender-specific college prep. schools in town, both were highly lauded and nationally respected. Katie wasn't too pleased to be starting over...
I work as a strength and conditioning coach take me to different high schools, colleges or training academies around the state and sometimes the Midwest. These contracts typically are very short, between a few weeks to a few months, once I have put programs into place and trained staff on implementation I am off to the next location. Setting up a new progra...
When I was in High School I had a girlfriend named Stephanie. I was a stoner/skater (common combination) and she was popular and very social. She was often at parties on the weekend and school events during the week. It wasn't long into my Junior year that we met for the first time. I had heard she was interested in me but I didn't really believe it. It's hi...
Chapter 4: Arriving in Bangkok Once I cleared Immigration, the director of the school met me in the waiting area. My initial reaction to her was one of surprise. From her letters, I assumed that the director of the language school was a woman in her mid to late 40's. The woman standing in front of me was in her mid 30's and quite a bit more attractive than...
Kiyomi stepped off the plane, thankful the journey was over. She was to find her American family, the Daltons. She had studied American culture, and was happy so much of it embraced Japanese entertainment (manga, anime, and video games) since she was also into these things and their American counterparts. She saw a middle aged man and woman, and recognized t...
Daniel had just moved to town a few weeks back after his parents had split up in a messy divorce. Since turning 18 he had tried to distance himself from their fighting and turned his full attention to school and getting out of his Mothers house. His new school didn't have room for him in any of his advanced curses, so they placed him with a lower level math...
Bob and Tina although didn't like each other personally, they mad one hell of a team. They had done many surveillance missions before. They returned to school the next day early, they were there by 4 am. Bob set up equipment in Tina's and the Principal's office. School bells rang and the 500 cameras set up all over the school went off all at once. There wer...
[©2010 BY CLINTON09; ALL CHARACTERS OVER THE AGE OF 18; NO EVENTS DESCRIBED ARE TRUE; THIS STORY HAS A 'HARDER EDGE' THAN MOST; BE WARNED: HERE BE DRAGONS; FOR AGES 21 OR ABOVE] [High school enemies meet at times, with one heckling the other, a bookworm, as a 'loser' who had to drive a loser's 'mommy-mobile' mini-van. The 'loser' studies overtime, eventuall...