"Would you like me to demonstrate the new product on one of our staff or would you rather have a more personal demonstration?" Feeling herself blush Joslyn made an unthinking response, "A more personal demonstration would answer several doubts I have." "If you will excuse me for a minute I will double check our private demonstration room. I want to be sure...
The smoky air fills my nose and smells like sweet tobacco and spicy deception. The combination was so good that I took another deep breath before turning my head to the room. Music beat slowly with a dragging rhythm that set the calm mood perfectly. Women in short skirts with even shorter morals twirled their daringly short hair between dirty fingers. They...
An undersized round man with a crown of hair around his head walked in, immediately bumping into the table and spilling the withered hand, despite the almost half inch thickness of his glasses. "Oh god -- sorry." He stammered into the musty air of the shop. The two women turned when the door opened, and he hadn't looked in their direction at all. Sasha wond...
Mark sat outside the office of the woman he was here to see about getting the job. He was ready to return to the world of security, and this was his first interview in several months. He was nervous beyond belief, hoping that he would get the job, but already setting himself up for failure. The sign outside her door read Leticia Desmond. An exotic sounding n...
Two hours later, alone at her desk, Lynn leaned back to rub her tired eyes. She still felt rested but also distracted and restless and her eyes hurt from staring at spreadsheets and emails; numbers and letters swam on the screen in front of her. The young woman turned away from her desk to rest her eyes. The chirp of a bird from outside made Lynn look over a...
A few years ago I was on a basketball scholarship at Mountainview State College. The beginning of my senior season was pretty much like any other. I had been the starting point guard for the previous two seasons and by now, had become one of the stars of the team. This year we had a new coach who non-chalantly informed us that he would allow interviews from...
"You don't want to see me naked." Melissa clutched the cloth of her lapels tightly together with one hand, while she poked the front and back parts of the robe's lower seam between her legs. She tried ducking away in the impromptu shorts jumper, while envisioning the stretch marks over her abdomen and breasts. This was one in the dozen reasons why she hadn...
It was just after lunch, and Alan Harper, 35-year-old librarian at the University library was sitting at the reference desk of the historical section trying to track down a particularly elusive book in the national library database. It was a doctorate thesis on medieval sanitation gutters in northern Europe, published in the early eighties, and only a few un...
While sitting at the upscale bar in a fine restaurant, I wondered how big a mistake this was. What's the worst that can happen - an early night and web surfing back home? A beautiful black woman came in and looked around. I forgot to ask about race. I tried to catch her eye and flaunted my emerald green "It's ME" scarf. She looked past me and I looked t...
All I could hear around me were the screams of other souls that had damned themselves to this inferno of pain. I would slump down against the chains that had bound my wrists to this wall as my entrails poured out of me. The pain would be visited upon me viciously each and every time that I had healed the injury. My torturers knew what my weakness was…. "Com...