Chapter 1. The Antique Shop Hannah did not choose it. She was just wandering through the streets filled with small shops and restaurants, killing time before the plane back home and looking for places to spend what was left of her local currency. She push...
Honey is sitting on the edge of the bath, shaving her pubic hair. She has a date with Carlo and has taken off more than usual, leaving just a neat, small triangle. Her hair looks fabulous as she has had it cut. She is wearing Channel Number Five, her make...
Coming into the building, I realized it was the girls’ dormitory. Confused, I looked at the envelope with the keys and the contract papers again. But there it was all written, my name, address, and room number. Which also stood printed on the keys. I ente...
I live and work in paradise. I’m thirty years old and have been a lifeguard for more than fifteen years. For the last eight I’ve been the guard at Wineglass Beach on the east coast of small island in the waters south of Melbourne, Australia. I had to look...
I called her the beach girl because I didn’t have anything else to call her. I saw her every day when I sat out watching the Gulf and the beach with my morning coffee, enjoying the early morning before I went in to start work. I’ve lived here for almost t...
I heard her whispered call in the night - soft, gentle, yet with an urgency. Rising (not knowing if I was awake) and walking towards her, I glimpsed my vision of the night. Shimmering, almost translucent, she beckoned me to herself, placing her finger...
Willow emerged from the morning scrum at the cafe counter clutching her ritual espresso in one hand and her bag and phone in the other. Luck was with her when she spotted her favourite bistro table vacant by the front window, and she hurried over to claim...
His hands drift over the skin of my shoulders. I'm not entirely sure how or when, but somehow he has maneuvered us away from the dance flow, the ebb and flow of the music now distant as we hide secluded in one of the many rooms off of the ballroom. This...
I sat there, perched upon the edge of the king sized bed, the bed where, not long before, the two of us had made passionate love together.The memory of being with her still lingered in my mind, like a fresh scent of flowers blossoming in a field. Yet, thi...
The day I decided to break out of my usual routine and take a little journey changed my life in a most extraordinary way. It was October and the leaves were at their peak of color when this strange feeling came over me. I looked at the red and orange leav...
My heart stopped when I looked into his eyes, golden with a hint of green, a look of determination in them. I swallowed suddenly, a tad afraid, but mainly curious. My eyes couldn't move, no matter how hard I willed them to do so. "Why don't we get out of...
Have you ever had one of those weeks where nothing seems to go right? I had a two week stretch once. It was horrid. Since my wife had been away with her family and wasn’t due to return until the following Friday, I had been alone for the week, with the pr...
Don Taylor’s vacation was not starting the way he had hoped. His divorce had finalized just weeks before he was to fly off with his wife on what was supposed to be a second honeymoon to save their marriage. Since the trip was already paid for and non-refu...
Go to the house at the top of the street. Enter the house.(May 21, 2012 10:03 P.M.)Slowly advancing up the tree-lined hill, she glanced up from her lit phone screen to see the dark house towering over a neat lawn. The sky was a dead blue and every shape c...
Everyday I would ride bus route four home from work. I would get on the bus at the same time everyday give or take a few minutes. A couple of times I have came out and the bus was pulling off and as a ran after it the bus would stop and I would get on fro...
