This story is a another snapshot of the world created in Scene from a Dinner Party. ***** Click... Click... 'and...' click! 'Perfect!' my Mistress says with wicked glee, 'now up you get.' A sharp intake of breath and my eyes widen but I place my hands flat on the cold, tiled floor and... my Mistress giggles, 'Sophia, Sophia - stay down. There's no way an...
"You'll never take me, Jake!" Shona flipped her long blonde tresses defiantly. They flailed about in the air for a moment then landed across her face. She picked stray hairs out of her mouth whilst glowering at her would be lover. "Oh, but I will my darling." Jake sauntered towards her, his brow dark with intent. He was a devastatingly handsome man, as bro...
I am trying something different with these stories. Instead of writing a single narrative, I have written 10 vignettes from a relationship. Each chapter alternates between the point of view of the two main characters and is written as if talking to the other person. In addition, I have written each chapter as a quickie; all of the stories are 1,000 words o...
Death has been written about endlessly, both by writers of fiction and theologians. It seems everyone has an answer as to what happens when you die, yet it’s still considered so mysterious. But take it from someone who has actually died, it really isn’t all that different from life, what with the politics, red-tape, and waiting in endless - eternally long l...
"Met your husband Saturday. He was getting gas when I pulled up to the pump next to him. I didn't realize it was him until I got out of my car, so I had to say hello." "Oh, what did you guys talk about?" "Just the price of gasoline but let me ask you something? Does he know about us?" "Why do you ask?" "Well, I never liked him. When we were in high schoo...
Chapter 1: The new-ish boy in town In Astrid's humble opinion, Coven meetings had to be the biggest waste of time ever. Coven meetings, magic, witches. she knew it was supposed to be cool, it was supposed to be a sisterhood, and all wonderful and blah, blah, blah. But Astrid found it was mostly just incredibly boring. A prime example? Astrid spent the la...
Chapter Five: Arthur vs. Tourism [Two days earlier] Arthur crested the last ridge where the trail turned northward and thankfully started to go downhill again. The straps from an overloaded backpack rubbed his shoulders raw and the canvas bags he held in each hand made his arms go numb after a while. The miserable five-day camping trip was almost over and...
“Hey baby, wait here," he said to her as he began to get up and walk out the bar. "Where are you going?" she asked reaching out to him. "Listen, we have been through this before. I go where I want and when I want, so don't ask me any stupid questions and you won't get stupid answers." She looked at him with hurt eyes and he pulled out a cigarette and plac...
"So, Izzy, you really like my farts?" Nabila Yassin said softly, and the young Yemeni Muslim woman looked at her lover Ismail "Izzy" Machar, as they sat inside the Starbucks located across the Ottawa Main Library on Metcalfe Street. It was a frosty Tuesday morning in mid-November in downtown Ottawa, Ontario, but inside the small, trendy café, things were def...
Cheap things that you can do now to save money and save the planet. 1. Install solar panels, a tankless water heater, and buy an alternative energy vehicle. The above items, installing solar panels and a tankless water heater and buying an alternative energy vehicle are certainly not cheap things to do for the sake of saving money, although, without doubt,...