God, I thank you that I'm alive. Those were the words in my head at two thirty in the morning on Tuesday, August 7, 2012. I was working an overnight shift as security for one of the biggest parking lots in the City of Ottawa, Ontario. Clad in a black security jacket, black pants and boots, I patrolled the five floors of the parking lot, looking for vagrants...
The Bridge was her favourite place in the world. He knew it. It was where he had taken her on their first date, and he used to take her there to cheer her up and see her face light up every time she saw it. There was only one other thing that made her face light up like that, and he wanted to bring the two together. He picked her up from her place. They wer...
In life people always like to partake in a little bit of risk. Just enough to feel a rush, but not enough to get caught or noticed. Jamie's encounter with the unknown businessman left her feeling satisfied and enthralled. Her bathroom rendezvous was the appropriate next step in her pursuit to be more daring in life. She not only looked forward to thinking o...
Christmas had just ended and now it was time to go shopping at the mall to redeem some of the gift cards I had received, the usual return of an item or two and to see if I could locate any good sales. My family and I had flown to eastern Indiana to see my grandmother on the 27th and were prepared to stay a few days like we had done several years prior. My si...
This story is a work of fiction. Any similarities to any real person, institution, or place are unintentional and coincidental. Sorry, this story takes a few pages to get going. ***** I was in college on September 11, 2001. What happened that day in New York, D.C., and Pennsylvania caused me to change my major to Middle Eastern studies. I also began to stu...
It was a seven minute ride in the mine cargo elevator to get upstairs into Operations from my quarters on Level One. That gave me far too much time to worry about potential problems that I had absolutely zero control over. The security protocol was for the on-duty night guard to call Phyl before calling me, and if followed, that was a huge comfort. My securi...
I apologize for leaving you all hanging in the first part of this adventure. I wanted to have it all done before I submitted it but I was inundated with e-mails asking for me to post something. I love getting all the e-mails, comments (good and bad) and the questions and all and wanted to please you all. I tried to find a good place to stop and decided it wo...
1 Beth and Zack were both downstairs sitting at their desks already and were creating some forms for reviewing the cloud-based CRM systems they had identified the day before. Breakfast was delivered and they moved to the lunch room to eat. Annabelle and Cass came down together, both with big smiles on their faces. Cass went directly to Beth and then gave h...
Have you ever lost something but you were happy about it? That happened to me at an embassy party. I got into this paradoxical situation because of a rather well set up quickie with the Ambassador in his office. At some point during the, uh, event, my panties went flying and I couldn't find them afterwards. Either there's some incriminating evidence for his...
Thanks to Yazva, who came up with the idea for the E-Security device and Chastos Labs, and who encouraged the creation of this story! The wind whipped around his face as Jay left the Chastos Inspection Facility, causing the young man to raise his hood and pull it tight. He walked with a slightly uneven gait - one leg swinging out a little wider than the oth...