1:45 pm, their time. To her, at least. Becca took lunch at the same time every day. Not only was it the most convenient. But she also got to see HIM. Becca worked at one of the finance offices nearby. On the surface, she was a very beautifully accomplished woman. Blonde hair fell just past her shoulders. Black-framed glasses accented the blue in her eyes, making them like two pools of water. She wore a business suit and b...

I met Kim through a mutual acquaintance at the apartment complex where we both lived. I was single and between marriage and she as about twenty-one. Kim had a boyfriend who lived at the same complex, but I soon learned that theirs was a strange relationship. One evening as I was getting ready for work, Kim knocked on my apartment door. She was flushed and out of breath, as she darted in to my first floor flat and I closed...

Freedom? What to do with a large lottery win.   So, I returned to the world of being a single man. A liberation of sorts, a return to uncertainty at a certain age. It is a scary place to be, ejected from the family home and to set up again.      Sure I have the comforts. Sure, I have all my books, the CD’s, plenty of DVDs. Ok, the furniture in the new place isn’t that good yet and I could do with a new mattress, but hey, ...

Well, I was halfway through the shift and was just finishing my break when an order came through. So after waiting for the order to be processed, I got all my gear and went off in the car, I was actually making some decent time as for once all the lights seemed to go my way. If I had known what was going to happen later, I may have bought a lotto ticket, haha.   I pulled into the end of this street and was just looking fo...

Sophie grabbed her rainbow patterned vest top from the end of the wardrobe, pulling it from the hanger and laying it on the bed next to her dark blue jeans. The top was a bit tatty now, a veteran of four previous Pride festivals, but with such glorious weather, there was no way she wasn't going to wear it. She checked her phone and laughed to herself at the thirty-seven new messages on the group text chat, excitement was...

                  I was twenty-eight, single, and returning home from a wedding at a South East Asian resort. I had a couple of days before my flight to return home. So I took the scenic bus tour to get back to the airport so I could then fly home. The trip was over two days, with a stopover at a provincial town.             Accommodation was fine, at a fairly cheap clean hotel, but the bus trip left me feeling a bit jade...

She sat on her bed. Quiet as a mouse. Her legs were crossed and her laptop was staring at her, urging her to go online.She’d been away for a long time. She thought she had met “the one” who she could spend the rest of her life with. It turned out that it only showed her that she was much better off on her own. She didn’t need anybody, just her family and friends. She had a roof over her head, a decent paid job, and she ha...

Day 1, Sunday, April 21. Dear diary, Alice is a bitch. She's a cunt, a dick, a heel, and a shitty friend. And I'm talking Judas Iscariot level bad friend. Here's what happened: Since we live in different parts of the country, we agreed to meet on board. After all the hassle of travel and the security screening, I made my way down to our cabin. It's small, with twin beds and a tiny, cramped, bathroom, although with a showe...

Time was a villain. As unassuming as still water and heavy enough to drown in. A cool breeze stole the searing bite from the bonfire before Daphne, and she wished it could regenerate what had already been burned. Her childhood. Early adulthood. And the end of the only relationship she’d had where someone seemed to care for her. She was going through the motions but she’d never been happy. Hopeful, but not happy. Life was...

"Be happy," he said.Like it's that simple.Like I haven't been trying. Like saying "be happy" erases that I'm being put on the back-burner againbeing used as a back-up plana last-resort when there's nothing better to doSaying "be happy" is supposed to change that he pissed me off again. "Be happy." I want to be happy. So desperately that I push too hard, ask for too much, move forward when I should hold back. I dive in whe...

I grew up with the start of the baby boom. I graduated from high school in 1964. I went to war in Vietnam. When I was done I went back to college to get my degree in Electronics and Computer Science. This made me a little older than my classmates, but also gave me an edge. I knew what I wanted and knew what had to be done to get it. My class was made from all types of people. Most of them were the first of their family to...

In the Dark, Of the Night, A lone shadow, Is seen, This lone shadow, Belongs to a girl, A girl who is looking, For someone, She doesn't know, Who they are, All the girl knows, Is that the person, Is out there, For her, To help her, And to give, Her love, And warmth, To be there for her, No matter what, This girl, Has been searching, For so long, For this one person, She is starting, To lose all hope, She is calling, Out f...

Up. Down. Up. Down. Up. Down. The weights seemed to get heavier every time I lifted them. Up. Down. Up. Down.  I began to breathe harder as I lifted the bar over and over, worried that my arms would eventually give out and the steel bar and the heavy weights on the ends would come crashing down on me. I didn't have a spotter since I usually prefer to work out alone. All I needed was my iPod and a bottle of Gatorade and I...