Seven P. M. on a Thursday evening, a weary Betty sat on the bus heading back to her new flat. She didn’t hate it, but when she thought were she had come from it left her quite depressed. Betty was almost 62 and after a late marriage at 49, she’d been left divorced almost penniless and pretty broken four months …
I never would have taken the art appreciation class if
my friends hadn’t convinced me that it was a snap. “Hey,
it’s Art in the Dark, man. All you do is watch a bunch
of bogus slides in the dark.” Cool, I thought.I picked a seat in the last row. It was dark, farthest
from the prof and closest …
Lina is sitting in her hospital bed. She is munching through her
dinner. She looks much better than yesterday, even though her
face is still swollen and she is pale.We are alone; Ana is out in the gardens with her father. I guess
they have a lot to talk about. A good man, that Mustafa. He is
showing compassion …
Suddenly middle aged men were as frisky as teenagers and their women,
whilst initially secretly pleased soon became exhausted through the
renewed attentions thrust upon, and indeed into them. And so they
started complaining.However you can’t shove the genie back in the bottle and, like nuclear
weapons, it couldn’t be uninvented.So the drug companies worked on a version …
Jack geared down his rig as he approached the traffic lights; he was heading for a long haul and would most probably be driving well into the night. As the truck rolled to a stop next to a small white sports car, Jack glanced down through the front window of the vehicle next to him […]
Ted was 18, yesterday, and he was miserable. He had no friends and he knew it. So why did his mother insist on throwing a birthday party for him, rubbing his nose in it? She had invited all of the neighborhood kids, talking to all of their parents personally, and then told him to invite […]
I sat down at the computer, finally hoping to get some peace. No such luck. The incredibly gorgeous babe who had been following me for the last half hour sat down in the chair next to me and put her hands on my shoulders, squeezing them gently. I sighed in exasperation. “Don’t you have anything […]
I told you a little bit about how Daddy and I played when I was younger and I’d love to tell you more. But some people are wondering what our relationship is like now that I’m 20 and a sophomore in college. Daddy is still a very young and sexy 53. He’s gotten a little […]
I am starting this diary to tell everything. To people, I can’t be perfectly honest and not hurt them, but to you I will tell everything. I guess the reason I started this was because I have a boyfriend. Chris Carpenter. He doesn’t want me telling my friends everything about what we do and I […]
We were up early the following morning. It was one of those rare bright winter days where there is no wind and the world looks made anew under its carpet of shimmering frost. The sky was an achingly blue vault with the only clouds a couple of puffs left over from God’s cigar. It isn’t […]