It was going to be a great weekend, weather wise. It would be a shame to miss getting to go fishing for lack of a fishing partner. My wife hated it when I had to go alone, so I always tried to find a partner to take. This weekend was no exception, however I was having trouble finding anyone available. I was in the front office asking one of the young faculty...
Rich was putting away the last of the dishes. Wednesday night. Another night when he and the kids ate dinner without Marie. "I'm going to bed kids," he called into the living room. A muffled chorus responded that it was ok. As the house began to darken, Rich brushed his teeth, studying himself in the mirror. Had he aged, or was he imagining that he had? T...
I hated my English Teacher. He was a selfish little prick. He was short with grey hair and a Van dyke beard. He was teaching me and 30 others English 30, a class I had to pass to get out of high school. It was the mid-term that did me in, I got a 49 which wasn't enough, written on the paper in huge letters was see me. I waited until class was over and dragg...
I’ve always been known as ‘Big John’, even when I were a bairn – and it weren’t cos I wore a size 16 girdle, oh no! I always knew what the ‘big’ referred to though. And now, so do mi constituents. Oh yes. Well, it were just after election day and I’d been for mi Big Mac to build up mi stamina for another encounter with Porking Portillo. And he was called P...
It started with a telephone call, a couple of weeks ago, one of my former girlfriends called Christine, inviting me to her birthday party. I had nothing else planned for the evening, and accepted the invitation. When I walked into the venue, an upstairs room at a local pub, Christine was leaning on the bar, ordering drinks. She was wearing a very short, min...
Laurel rubbed her temples and stared at the monitor through bleary eyes, numbers and figures and tables swimming before her. Seven years. Seven years she'd sat at this desk and entered figures into this terminal while the cubicles around her emptied and filled once again as the men and women moved on. Really, it was mostly the men that were transferred up or...
Anne sobbed quietly with her head in her hands as the small army of doctors poked and prodded at her tiny son. The past few days had been a whirlwind of activity at the Riesin household, with government medical specialists and disease control agents coming and going to inspect the shrunken phenomenon. Almost immediately upon seeing Luke's 4-inch tall form on...
I'm a normal guy with an inclination to adventure. When I graduated college I had no idea what I was going to do. Then I saw an advertisement promising an adventurous career. Teach English abroad in Thailand. I had no money; I was lucky that the school paid for the airfare and provided a place to stay. I was ecstatic, a dream come true a life full of travel...
Chapter 13 – Arrivals I was standing under the large arrivals board at the local train station some 10 minutes early, my hands shaking in anticipation. The station was completely empty except for me and a lonely train conductor. A nice middle aged guy, about my size, slightly shorter. He helped me sort out the exact arrival time and then went on about his b...
I'm a male in my late 50's. Not to brag, but with all of my physical activities and strenuous workouts, I've been told I look more like a man in my early 40's. Back in 2011 I was diagnosed with early stages of prostate cancer. I immediately took the positive approach and was implanted with over 100 radium seeds. It cured my Cancer, but the side-effects were...