Category: Romance

‘Hello?’ she answered cautiously, but in a friendly tone. It could so easily be a business call. ‘Anna?’ a male’s voice said brightly. There was the low rumble of traffic noise in the background. ‘Yes…who is it please?’ She heard a moment’s pause and the traffic noise sounded all the louder. Maybe she was mistaken to hear a slow intake […]

I sat quietly in my room, the sound of the fan a constant reminder that it needed to be fixed, my stomach growled, I let out a long sigh. It had been months since I got a well-paying job, being a freelance architect meant that I could get paid big when good jobs came by, but it also meant that […]

But despite the motor whirring as the garage door closed behind him, he could hear upbeat music playing from inside the house, and as he opened the door to walk inside, he could smell the deep, rich aroma of dark chocolate wafting through the air: she was baking for him again. Smiling, he sauntered over to the kitchen, where he […]

I hadn’t seen Kristina in a few years. We broke up when she decided to spend her summer vacation with her kids at her family’s home out of state. We had not been together long, so there was no point in either of us spending the summer with no romance so we decided to end the relationship. I had a […]

He closed the trunk of the car, having extracted his bags and slung his backpack over his shoulder. He extended the handle of his rolling luggage and waved goodbye to his wife with one hand, turning towards the entrance to the terminal. As he stepped across the threshold and the doors slid closed behind him, he could feel the weight […]

Todd opened the door to his condo, beams of light from the late setting sun still breaking through the slatted blinds fitted within the openings of the living room windows, their shape softened by pale green drapes. He loved coming home to his place, even if it did echo and remind him that he lived a solitary life.

The Sheppard family had, as the words of an old song went, ‘picked themselves up, dusted themselves off, and started all over again’. Well, almost. They had drawn on deep reserves of courage and dogged determination to get through the searing losses of loved ones. In Jeff Sheppard’s case, it was the loss of his wife, Mary, from a cancer […]

It was a Saturday, and I had been indoors all day with my friends. We’d been playing a game on the console for so long that I lost interest. Plus, I was a bit hungry, and I needed to get some things from the store before it got closed for the night. So 10 pm saw me leave my apartment […]

The author asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work. This is a work of fiction. The events described here are imaginary; the settings and characters are fictitious and are not intended to represent specific places or living persons. In the years before the First World War, Lady Agnes was enjoying life. She was rich […]

I was drumming on the tank of the bike while waiting for the traffic light to go green. Anger still made made me grind my teeth and while wishing for the light to change I also wanted it to just stay red and force me to sit there. At least I would be halfway between two parts of life I […]