"This would have broken Grandma's heart," I said. My cousin Shane and I sat beside each other at my grandmother's dining room table, watching in horror as our family engaged in a screaming match. We'd returned from Grandma's funeral earlier that afternoon...
This is a true story of an encounter with a lady that I met a few years before I met my wife. I'd been out on the town in Plymouth, where I'd been drafted due to being in the Royal Navy. It was Easter, so everyone I knew from my ship was on leave. I was i...
They returned to work the following day, refreshed and feeling like they could handle anything. For Jeremy, the week progressed without any major issues, and he quickly dealt with those that occurred. Allison’s week wasn’t going as well. As an adjuster fo...
I was nervous and excited, I already felt wet. I was waiting for Kabir, a young Indian masseur who had been recommended to me, who was going to give me a Guru Sensitive Massage. I opened the door and his dark eyes looked at me like a gentle dark lake in t...
Annie sat Indian style in the middle of her neatly made bed and listlessly scrolled Instagram. It had been a boring day ever since her older brother Jake left for work almost nine hours earlier. She was growing quite antsy, as there were only so many book...
Mother's Day was just around the corner and this year I was determined to do something special. I had never given Mother's Day much thought in the past. My father had always taken care of everything and said it was from both of us. However, my father pass...
It had become a typical morning in our household, my dad stuffing his face with his breakfast before dashing out the door without saying a single word. He eagerly wanted to go outside because of his lift to work and his new work associate, Clare. My step...
It was radio silence, and I found it disturbing. Karlie had pierced me with her glare when I got home the other night. I was pretty sure she’d been hoping this whole thing with Audrey would be over. Instead, it had taken a completely different turn. Even...
Leo hunched forward and hung his head as Ms. Amandine’s voice droned on, his hands clasped together between his knees as he waited for her lecture to end. Endless words tumbled through his head as they passed from one ear to the other like cars going thro...
"Ms. Hintern, your next appointment is here. Shall I send him in?" Molly, her bookkeeper and receptionist, stands in the doorway in her 'date night' attire - a sexy, but somehow still work appropriate little emerald dress paired with smokey eyeshadow a...
Today is my seventeenth birthday. It should be a joyous occasion. But instead, I’m watching a pile of leaves being blown up the street as depression eats away at me. It’s now four days into the autumn half-term holiday and I’ve spent the last three days s...
Sakura was sitting straight as a Newell post, hands clasped over her closely set knees. The skirt Paxton had chosen for her was tighter than she was used to, and she was acutely aware of how much her thighs were revealed in her current position. Her blous...
It all began with an innocent comment one day, as I was out for a long bicycle ride on a hot August afternoon.She had a habit of calling me with a sense of perfect timing. Never when I was just sitting in one spot, waiting for a call, but usually while I...
