Trolley Dolly

Something was crushing me — hard, pinning me from behind. It was difficult to breathe as if my nose and mouth were being pressed into wet sand. I felt the gritty substance crunch between my teeth which confirmed my suspicions. I was lying face first in sand. If I didn’t do something quickly I was going to fucking suffocate. Channelling […]

The Last Hurrah

The thing with life is that it always deals in swings and roundabouts, sometimes you’re up, and other times you are down. Since Ashley diagnosis eight months ago, the bond and love between us have developed exponentially. However, the physical lust that was once there has waned as she has grown weaker due to the medication or treatments. But that’s […]

Moonlight Glaze

“Just trust me,” she said, pulling his hand behind her. She hopped over the cobblestones, carefully balancing on the balls of her feet and led him down the pathway. The sound of the waves was getting closer, and the place was getting darker until they finally arrived at the little secluded beach that she was so keen on showing him. […]

The Anniversary Week – Monday

I awoke to the sound of my alarm clock buzzing – and a headache. I solved one annoyance by tapping the screeching device on my nightstand and tried to alleviate the other by rubbing my temples with one hand and reaching for the half-empty glass beside my clock, which was flashing 7:00. It didn’t help much, as I knew it […]

Challenge Accepted

I love college parties, and my buddy, Esther, is throwing one tonight. Only eight people will be there, and I count myself lucky to be included. Her parties get pretty wild because of who she invites and because she has plenty of liquor on hand. I’m not part of her wild bunch, but she usually lets me attend because we […]

AI Era: Loss Function

All models are wrong, but some models are useful. – George Box. A loss function is a way of describing the gap between what we want and what we have. – Patricia Rosewood, “Introduction to Artificial Intelligence: Collected Course Notes”, 2027. I hadn’t expected so many people at Nadja’s funeral. I wouldn’t have blamed them for not showing up – […]

Sun and Rain

I was greedily gulping down air as hands explored over warm flesh. His larger over my smaller, softer form, whilst mine traced hard muscle-curvature over a broad, biological expanse. Years of martial arts and gymnastics training had left me like iron, or so I’d thought. I had simply not understood how soft I was until this very moment, until I’d […]

The Dying Hour

The room is illuminated only by candles. Some of them are scented and they suffuse the air in the room with a pleasant, sweet odour. The four-poster bed has been positioned in the center of the room. There is no carpet on the floor and even in the semi-light of the room the circumference of the chalk-marked circle bordered the […]

The Honeymoon, Finale

Kevon: Kevon Simpson here. Five years after marrying the most beautiful, vivacious woman this side of Beyonce, I’m getting divorced. It’s my own fault, really. I fell prey to the oldest dodge in the world. Working late one night, tired and hungry, my guard down, a female co-worker and I did the deadly deed. I was profoundly sorry for this […]

Adventures of Rayne & Malgrim

The wedding festivities were beautiful! Rayne was so excited to be there with her new friends or what she would now call her family. Malgrim grumbled a lot but she tried to focus on being happy, and keeping Rune out of trouble. She had promised him a hunt, so that’s what she was going to do. After talking with Malgrim […]