I had always been the awkward, nerdy guy in high school and college. I was shy around girls, and had never gone on a date. This continued into college. I attended a small, private university in northeast Ohio, where I majored in history. By my senior year I could talk politics and history with any of the professors, but I couldn't get a date. Hell, my junior...
When a man has a crush on a woman, he feels compelled to do all manner of foolish things to win her over. My name is Scott and I have a crush on Darya. Darya is a ballet dancer with the Chandler Theatre, Fairhaven Center for the Performing Arts. She's 5'11", she's lithe, graceful and poised. Her eyes are an alluring royal blue, her long, blonde hair looks...
Megan was finally an upperclassman. After all that time being at the bottom of the food chain, she was now a senior at her local Westroot High. She had had a pretty normal first three years. She had ok grades, dated a little bit, tried different groups, and had a generally good time. But something had seemed different that summer. There were talks about some...
Note: The students in this story are at the end of their senior year of high school. They have all turned 18. * A year after wetting her pants during the university entrance exam, the young woman crouches behind a bush at the edge of the school oval, watching the library through binoculars. This year's calculus students are filing in and taking their seats...
This takes place after "Wanda Karaoke Contest." Before the weather turned cold the nursing and teaching college held a carwash. The funds were used to pay for a trip to Chicago for a college recruitment conference. Usually, the teaching students and the nursing students would have separate stations and compete to see who raised the most money. The winning t...
All characters are 18 years old or older. Every spring as high school graduation approached, there were always a significant number of students who were "on the bubble" regarding grades and credit. The pressure would bear down upon them as parents, teachers and peers would apply various forms of pressure and motivation. Mr. Williams was a 12th Grade Engl...
This is a true story which happened a few years ago. Another one of my adventures where a small impulsive choice leads to more than expected. My stories are detailed and slow to buildup, not for the impatient reader. * My company develops technology used all over the world. I am fortunate to have always been good at math and science and to have pursued en...
Unconscious Camilla was now reliving a memory that had occurred three years before the aquarium incident, so she was thinking back to when she was thirty-four and lecturing in McGill University in late October. She was discussing two passages in Moby-Dick. "'In Chapter 35, 'The Mast-Head', Herman Melville writes of how we can be lulled into an opium-like, l...
Chapter 1 Miss Vickie Roach sat at her desk and looked out at her students who were trying to solve the daily trigonometry problem. Her eyes moved across her senior section and the smallest of smiles appeared on her face as she observed her favorite class. Vickie was well liked by both faculty and students despite the fact that she dressed as a much older...
This is not an article on how to be a good parent in the general sense. I've only been a parent for over a year and I'm sure I still making mistakes. This article is about how to be a good parent when it comes to the education system. It is extremely important that you take initiative and become part of your child's life when it comes to their school educati...