This is a work of total fiction We were approaching the last checkpoint and hopefully everything would work out just like the last time. Our contact was there as usual, greedy bastard, but hey what can you do, that's the price of doing business in this part of the world. Greg, my partner, stepped out of the car to do the usual 'handshake', this time the con...
With the help of her friends, National Nude Day gives Ruth back her memories by restoring her view. The only thing that Ruth liked about the room she shared with Dorothy at the nursing home was the view. If it wasn't for the view, she wouldn't be happy here at all. Everything was too new, too small, too white, too antiseptic, and too cheaply made. Unlike he...
"The world is made up of two classes: the hunters, and the huntees." -Robert Connell, "The Most Dangerous Game" *** June: Laren had one condition before renting the cabin: "I want to be absolutely alone for the entire summer," she said. "I can't stress enough how important it is that nobody be around." The owner assured her over the phone that it was e...
Thanks for the tips Waratah! Hope you all enjoy ;) ~~~~~~~~~ From the moment my sister dropped them back at our house, the girls were whining and pleading to go back to the pub. On Monday the younger one gave her classmates an account of what life is like in a country pub, complete with instructions on how to replace a keg. I'm not going to lie; I was...
Sitting on bar stools on a busy Thursday night in London, Carmen and Justin appeared to all the world to be a average couple out enjoying an evening's drink; calm, collected, an established couple relaxing after a day's work in the city. Each knew the other's nervousness, that the self-possessed air was practised and hiding butterflies in her stomach and a k...
During the entire flight I had been staring through the window lost in my own thoughts. Idly I had been wondering if Marcus would live up to his promise and be waiting for me on my arrival. As I sat there, the hum of the plane in my ears, looking but not seeing, the butterflies in my stomach metamorphosed into dragons. A mixture of emotions ran helter skelt...
Rick Potter turned into his driveway, shit it was eleven o’clock. He had told Sheila he would be home no later than eight. She was going to be mad, but he was getting use to it. Ever since this new project was given to him, he had not been home before nine O’clock. He had been working on it for two months and it would probably take another two months to fini...
If they were asked, there is no doubt that Zoya and Salman would have considered themselves a modern liberated couple. However, before the events described here, they were really much more conventional than they would have cared to admit! Both worked in the financial world, and when they had met at the wedding of her cousin Salim to his cousin Zara, they h...
The following story is pure fiction. It is meant to be a parody of the TV show with the characters, Pam Huxtable, Vanessa Huxtable, Denise Huxtable, and Sandra Huxtable. Claire Huxtable entered the living room brushing her hair into place. She was in a hurry. "Denise?", she yelled up the stairway. "Yes Mom, I'll be right down.", called Denise. The 20 yea...
My girlfriend Kathy and I weren’t getting along any more and finally broke it off. Yeah, people always say “It was a joint decision” but I’m not afraid to admit I’m the one that brought it up first. I’m sure it was inevitable, but Kathy was still pretty upset about it. She called a few days later, drunk and lonely and wanting to get back together. I felt bad...