It was a Friday night in late October. The events of the summer had already dimmed into the distant past and our sex life had reverted back to the normality of the humdrum - Vanessa and I had made love perhaps two or three times since that night with Caroline. I was at home alone whilst Vanessa was out with her work mates. I had been detailed to stay sober...
Marc had always wanted to drive across the country, so when he turned up and said that he had quit his job and was leaving in the morning I knew that he meant it. I was torn between staying with the stability I had here, or going on an adventure of a lifetime. No big decision there, I ran inside and threw some things into a backpack, grabbed my money, and a...
Vanessa rushed quickly past the other cubicles towards her small three-walled office. She was late for work and she was not impressed with herself. She never was late in the past, but since she began dating Jordan, things had changed. She was tired and sore and had slept through her alarm, twice, this morning. Vanessa rushed past his desk, not even making e...
June 20th - John has talked to Sue about putting a security system in. John suggested an alarm on the end of the driveway so we know if someone turns into the drive. Sue did a lot of research and the one she found will include an invisible eye on the end of the driveway so if someone turns into our drive, alarms will go off in the house, in the basement, and...
Linn flitted about the kitchen nervously -- which was unusual for her, as she was not the type of person who got nervous. But she wanted everything to be perfect, for her and for Codi. She'd dressed casually for now, not wanting to get her dressy clothes messy, so she only wore a tight-fitting pair of jeans and tiny top. Even casual, to anyone who saw her,...
It had been a rough patch for in the last eighteen months for me. First of all I had a near fatal heart attack where I had to be shocked by the defibrillator three times but luckily for me I survived. Following ten months of depression and anxiety from this event, my wife left me and not long after my best mate for so long succumbed to an aggressive illness....
The abrupt, loud music startled me out of the zone I'd been in. My fingers had been moving on the keyboard for... how long? Hours? I wasn't sure. It was coming from the wall speakers that were in every room of the house. I listened for a moment; it was that song, 'Up All Night to Get Lucky'? I think. Those two guys with the helmets, forgot the band name. I...
Vanessa Perry sipped coffee from her mug as she looked out at the summer sun rising over Philadelphia. The forty-year-old executive sighed deeply as she reflected back on her life. She had grown up the youngest daughter of an extremely wealthy family. She had dreams of growing up, falling in love and getting married, like her four siblings before her. Howeve...
I was typing away at my desk when the intercom buzzed, "Miss Vanessa, can you please come into my office?" Before I got up, I pulled out my pocket mirror and smoothed out my skit. I prided myself on my professional appearance, which was obvious from my head to my toes. I was wearing a white satin blouse, with a black skirt, which came to just above the knee,...
"Dancing is a vertical expression of a horizontal desire." -- source unclear * Vanessa stopped at the door of the dance studio. She had to be crazy. She was twenty-two years old. Who started dance lessons for the first time at that age? Some of her friends in school had started lessons when they were still barely toddling. Obviously there were people who s...