After a long drive, I'd finally settled in my five wheeler, and come early morning, went out to stretch and admire the view. The top of the mountain was still covered in snow, and the sunrise made it glisten. I blinked, then closed my eyes and took a deep breath. Finally, in the wild! I had sold my house after realizing that nothing had changed in my life in the last five years after the big breakup. I went to the cinema,...

You sit on the slightly damp, mossy rock, staring out across the pond. Some type of bird shrills nearby. You slowly put your hand to your trouser pocket, fishing for your phone and hold it up. An annoyed expression flickers across your face and you toss it lightly away - it bounces away soundlessly. If you can’t get away from technology here, then where can you? It is warm today; the sun shines through the tall canopy of...

The sun falls behind the mountains, causing the sky to melt into pastels with speckles of gray clouds hanging. Inside, the gentle light of a candle dances along the stone walls of their humble home. The two men’s shadows are tall and furious with angered fists rising towards the heavens. Confusion and resistance present themselves in each of their minds, but one must persist. “I do not understand you, my son,” the older m...

“FUCK!” I was so close. I could feel it, building and building towards release. I just needed that tiny bit more pressure in the right spot. I had been straining towards this for what felt like hours, desperate to get there. Now flushed and gasping, I felt like I would do anything, promise anything, if I could just get what I needed. But the wheel nut would not budge. It wasn’t going anywhere, so neither was the wheel, an...

“I’ll show him,” Calla muttered under her breath in anger. It had only been a few hours since she ran from her family, and knowing her father, she knew not to expect anyone to look for her for a while. In fact, they all probably thought she was still pouting in her hut. She wasn’t the only one of her sisters who felt this rage at being sheltered their whole lives, but she was the most vocal about it. Suddenly, she heard t...

When Orla McCready went missing, everyone suspected her parents. That was because the McCreadys were Christian fundamentalists whose piety was infamous. Isolated in their cottage down by Fairyhill woods, they kept Orla locked away at weekends, with the windows shuttered. She was never allowed to wear makeup, and her clothes were crudely secondhand. The ridicule Orla suffered at school would have been endless had she not b...

"Katie! Don't forget to walk your dog!" my dad calls from downstairs. He had no idea I was lying on my bed, completely naked, just about to play with myself. I'm already super horny from reading erotic stories all evening. Begrudgingly, I quickly put on some pajama shorts and a zip-up hoodie, not bothering with underwear or a shirt. It's already dark out so no one should notice. I quickly go downstairs and call my dog as...

The wind blew towards her, bringing the smell of forest along with a couple of pale, yellow leaves that landed behind her. Along with the coloured trees in the forest, the air had become somewhat sharper the last week – gone was the chocking heatwave of the late summer, and soon enough the mountain peaks would get the season’s first layer of snow. A smile formed on her lips as she brushed an auburn lock of hair behind her...

Walking through the woods in the morning. Dew is still glowing all around. It is a peaceful morning on the trail. The birds all sing their songs of joy. There is constant rustling in the bushes as I pass. Small animals rushing from my view. They hide as though I were a predator. They have nothing to fear from me. I have my sights on a very different type of prey.   As I pass over the crest of a hill, I catch a glimpse of...

It was Memorial Day weekend of 1978. Kelly and I would graduate from high school in just a few days. I was camping with my family and our family’s good friends. Their oldest daughter, Rachel, was a year younger than me. The previous summer I had popped her cherry, with Kelly encouraging Rachel to have that happen. Kelly couldn’t come with us this particular weekend because she was stuck working at the grocery store deli....