1:45 pm, their time. To her, at least. Becca took lunch at the same time every day. Not only was it the most convenient. But she also got to see HIM. Becca worked at one of the finance offices nearby. On the surface, she was a very beautifully accomplishe...
For the jobs I do, I always need materials and supplies. I have two main suppliers, one of which is a small wholesale warehouse with specialty products, and visit them regularly to pick up what I need. I make a point of talking with everyone who works the...
I met Kim through a mutual acquaintance at the apartment complex where we both lived. I was single and between marriage and she as about twenty-one. Kim had a boyfriend who lived at the same complex, but I soon learned that theirs was a strange relationsh...
Freedom? What to do with a large lottery win. So, I returned to the world of being a single man. A liberation of sorts, a return to uncertainty at a certain age. It is a scary place to be, ejected from the family home and to set up again. Sure I ha...
Well, I was halfway through the shift and was just finishing my break when an order came through. So after waiting for the order to be processed, I got all my gear and went off in the car, I was actually making some decent time as for once all the lights...
Sophie grabbed her rainbow patterned vest top from the end of the wardrobe, pulling it from the hanger and laying it on the bed next to her dark blue jeans. The top was a bit tatty now, a veteran of four previous Pride festivals, but with such glorious we...
The room was busy, and the party was in full swing. It was a swinger’s party and it’s an interesting story how I ended up there. I work as an assistant to a wealthy man, he is handsome and often had made passes at me. Being in my mid-thirties and single,...
I was twenty-eight, single, and returning home from a wedding at a South East Asian resort. I had a couple of days before my flight to return home. So I took the scenic bus tour to get back to the airport so I could then fly home. The tr...
She sat on her bed. Quiet as a mouse. Her legs were crossed and her laptop was staring at her, urging her to go online.She’d been away for a long time. She thought she had met “the one” who she could spend the rest of her life with. It turned out that it...
Day 1, Sunday, April 21. Dear diary, Alice is a bitch. She's a cunt, a dick, a heel, and a shitty friend. And I'm talking Judas Iscariot level bad friend. Here's what happened: Since we live in different parts of the country, we agreed to meet on board. A...
Time was a villain. As unassuming as still water and heavy enough to drown in. A cool breeze stole the searing bite from the bonfire before Daphne, and she wished it could regenerate what had already been burned. Her childhood. Early adulthood. And the en...
I grew up with the start of the baby boom. I graduated from high school in 1964. I went to war in Vietnam. When I was done I went back to college to get my degree in Electronics and Computer Science. This made me a little older than my classmates, but als...
In the Dark, Of the Night, A lone shadow, Is seen, This lone shadow, Belongs to a girl, A girl who is looking, For someone, She doesn't know, Who they are, All the girl knows, Is that the person, Is out there, For her, To help her, And to give, Her love,...
Up. Down. Up. Down. Up. Down. The weights seemed to get heavier every time I lifted them. Up. Down. Up. Down. I began to breathe harder as I lifted the bar over and over, worried that my arms would eventually give out and the steel bar and the heavy weig...
