Month: July 2021

A gentle continental breeze blew through the open windows of the palace on an otherwise stuffy summer evening. The birds were in full voice this evening, only adding to the baroque orchestral music coming from the grand hall. Like most nights, Queen Lucy’s palace was a hive of activity. Various dignitaries and diplomats danced, drank, and mingled amidst the ornate […]

I’m Mathilda and I have a story to tell about how me and my friend punished a cheater and celebrated our victory. My friend’s name is Lena. We are very close, and have been since college. She had a boyfriend named Kai. Lena had taken their relationship very seriously, she really invested her time and energy on it, but as […]

Recently my son not only turned 18 but also graduated from High School. He had recently broken up with his long term girlfriend and to cheer him up my husband and I took him out to eat and spend the night in the fanciest hotel in town on the day of his graduation. We rented a suite with a separate […]

The problem with free time is that it’s something we spend so much time yearning for that when we actually have it, we don’t know what to do with it. I’d been looking forward to the prospect of a summer without schoolwork, dull classes or stifling responsibility or, worst of all, my parents discovering my somewhat lacklustre attitude toward those […]

I felt a hand wrap around my morning stiffness. “Gee, John, what kind of dream are you having?” Her lips felt cold on my neck as she kissed me. Chrissy must’ve just come from her three-mile run and drank something cold before making her way upstairs.

It shocked me to hear it. “You don’t mean it,” I said, gasping it out. We were in the back garden. I was in shorts and training shoes because of the heat while my grandmother was wearing a light summer dress. I’d been mowing the lawns, sat on the ride-on, keeping to the lines like she’d told me to, killing […]

When Clancy came home, his mother was sitting at the dining room table, slowly sipping some hot tea. Harriett watched her son bring in the armload of groceries and put them away with a studious look, taking slow, thoughtful sips as he methodically loaded the fridge and cabinet. He hadn’t noticed she was watching him, wrapped up in his thoughts […]

John returned home for his father’s funeral. John had been away at school for about 3 months when he heard the news of his father’s death from his mother. His father had died from an unexpected heart attack at the age of just 52. John returned home and was immediately hugged by his mother as soon as he walked into […]

Gordon tapped his thumb impatiently on the wheel of his truck as he watched his recently turned 18-year-old daughter flirt with some dumb jock that she went to school with. Grace, the youngest of his children, had grown up under his strict rule of ‘no boys’. Gordon knew what boys and men were like; he was one of them. He […]

Nicole had recently turned 18 and her life was as busy as ever with school, soccer, tennis, applying to college, friends, and volunteer work. Sometimes she wondered if she was too busy for her own good, but she considered herself lucky to have a supportive family and some close and faithful friends. Over the past year or so, Nicole also […]