It wasn't the first time I'd seen them together -- far from it, but something about the way he leant into her got to me every time. She laughed, and the sound of it brought a smile to my lips as they walked past me. We were at a party, Beccy's, to be precise, and I'd decided to come only through the pestering of my friend Josh. "There'll be some girls th...
The thing about insomnia is, your time isn't even time anymore. Even though you get the same ration of hours, or even a couple extra, they're an inflated foreign currency: you can't buy nothing worth shit with them. I always drift into it, in cycles. I'll have a good week, waking and sleeping like a model citizen, Ben Franklin style. Up at six, bed by nine....
As a regular visitor to the Netherlands to visit relatives in the Havre, I normally fly or on occasion use the Euro tunnel. However, on a whim this last June (2015), I opted for the cross channel ferry from Harwich. I had a few days annual leave to use up, so was in no rush and hoped to do some sightseeing, as well as seeing loved ones. It was on the return...
Where, oh where had her kids gotten that from? It was a silly question, really, as Andrea stood in the doorway of her own home, listening to the ABBA sound blasting from the radio in the kitchen. The radio had been a gift two years ago from her oldest, meaning that her husband had paid for whatever it was that Sarah had picked out at the store. The girl was...
In the small New England college where I taught English, every professor was also required to take on the coaching of a sport or extra-curricular activity. I took on Drama since I had always loved the theatre. We did only one big production a semester, and the one for that semester was to be "West Side Story," a huge undertaking because of the size of the c...
I remember an old joke. I was in 9th class and we had undergone a test in science. The Science teacher was pointing out the mistakes we had made in our test papers. He held out an answer sheet of a student and read an answer to a question. Question: What is a Fahrenheit thermometer used for? Answer: A Fahrenheit thermometer is used to measure the boiling...
Mina's fingers shook, partially from nerves, partially from disbelief. Her breath caught as she glanced at herself in the bathroom mirror -- her dark hair held back in a ponytail, her lips a deep rose red with lipstick, her eyes darkly enticing, their already charming colour subtly enhanced by the merest application of purple eyeshadow. She was stunning. He...
"Well, shit!" I sighed as I rolled onto my back to squint at the red glow that would soon become numbers. These numbers would once again inform me that I was still awake past midnight whilst my wife slept soundly in my arms. I envied her that ability; in all the time we'd been together she'd never struggled to get to sleep – I was always the one listening to...
Steve's specialty was the seduction and corruption of inexperienced, innocent, virginal young women, and his position at the university allowed him to meet many such beauties, who had often just moved out on their own for the first time after high school. The excitement of corrupting an innocent beauty was often enhanced when there was a bit of competition...
At long last, Dallas was upon them and Jennifer was as nervous as a long-tailed cat in a room full of rocking chairs. She had sent her parents tickets, hoping they might just come but knew they probably wouldn't. They weren't really the type to come to a concert but she at least hoped to see them backstage. Pushing herself through the crowd, she came across...