Category: Mature

My telephone rang. “Cathy Dixon, Atlanta Models Direct,” I answered. “Oh, hi,” said a female voice. “Jo Anson here, Elite Footwear.” “Oh, Jo! How are things?” “Just dandy, Cath. How about you?” “Nothing to report — business is keeping up with demand, so I can’t complain!”

The story you are about to read is true. Only the names have been changed to protect the innocent. My name is Neil Jamison. Actually Neil Frederick Jamison, a much more impressive name than the person who goes with it. At the time this story was written I was 5’8″, had brownish red hair with sun bleached highlights down to […]

Dan, a young photographer of 35 years old who shoots consumer electronics prototypes in his studio and sometimes also nature and landscape photography in the field. He lives in a town in southern California, a few hundred kilometers from Los Angeles. He makes good business, hence he could afford new gear like an EOS R6 and shortly later an EOS […]

Pandora’s box is an artifact in Greek mythology connected with the myth of Pandora in Hesiod’s Works and Days. He reported that curiosity led her to open a container left in care of her husband, thus releasing physical and emotional curses upon mankind. Later depictions of the story have been varied, while some literary and artistic treatments have focused more […]

Jenny had become a friend. A close friend and a colleague. She worked at my consulting firm as my intern last summer. I enjoyed working with her and teaching her. I also enjoyed just talking. She was smart and educated. Very intellectual. She was also beautiful. Jenny had decided to spend some time with us on a small project over […]

I am a bloody idiot. That’s what I am. And at my age at that! Forty! Alright, alright, I guess I should explain. Maybe you will understand as no one else is likely to believe me. None of this was planned. It just happened. It all started when my daughter and son, Bonnie and Clyde, decided to have a Halloween […]

I walked along the shoreline, it was past midnight and the moonlight threw it’s light upon the ocean waves. It was cold outside and I felt the chilly wind blow right through my clothes. “Should have put on a jacket.” I thought to myself. But that never crossed my mind as I was lost in other thoughts when I left […]

My name is Jim Dolman and I’m here to tell you that college is expensive no matter how you look at it. As a high school graduate just over eighteen years old, with little money, and little hope of a good-paying job, I was desperate to get into college so I could get a deferment. I didn’t want to be […]

As the doorbell rang out, Jacob was jolted awake from the couch. Dazed and confused, he pulled himself up from the couch. Jacob waited for a second ring, unsure if the noise that had woke him was actually real. Jacob was eighteen, recently graduated from high school, he was as he put it, ‘transitioning to adulthood. Realistically it meant that […]

My cousin dropped by my house after school. He was in his first year of college while I doing my form 5 secondary school. School has started two weeks ago; he came over to pass me his school notes and revision books. “Thank brother…” I replied. “No problem and I hope these notes will help you,” he said. “So what […]