09/24/2024
He rang me at the office around three in the afternoon. That time of day when everything urgent has been dealt with and you’re starting to plan for tomorrow. He was planning for the evening though. “You haven’t forgotten have you?” he asked immediately “Of course not, darling.” “You’ve got a key, haven’t you? If not I can leave one …
09/24/2024
As consciousness returned Sam became aware of the ache in his shoulders….and an overwhelming need to piss. “Where am I?” drowsily he asked the darkness. This question – though revealing much about our hero’s own innocently cliched assumptions – got no reply. So he dozed off again, waking however many hours later feeling no less numb and muddled. The pee…
09/11/2024
“I don’t think there were many girls named ‘Aurora’ two hundred years ago,” Dawn said. “This was the most beautiful girl in the whole county,” Larry said, smiling across the breakfast table at her. “Such girls are always named Aurora or something like that.” “You’re sweet.” Dawn replied. “Not an honest bone in your body, […]
09/11/2024
Our company sent us to New York on business and we were both booked into the same hotel, but in separate rooms. Julie, my co-worker and I were going to give a presentation the next afternoon, then catch a red-eye flight back to the coast. We checked in, finding our adjoining rooms on the 23rd […]