Month: July 2021

The speedometer hit eighty on my new fire truck red F-250 and the spring scenery whizzed by, but I was not sightseeing, I was going home.

Let’s get some of the background stuff out of the way quickly. My name is Calvin, “Cal”, Sanders. I am thirty-three years old and work for one of my best friends in the world. Her name is Toni Lapiro and is the same age as I am. We attended college together, her as a business major with a minor in […]

Everybody has a secret. We keep them for different reasons. It might be to protect ourselves or to hide something we’ve done; to deceive others. When we keep secrets from people we love, things get complicated; there’s a fine line between secrets and lies.

Mona Mubeen shivered uncontrollably, even while laden with heavy clothing in the month of October in Lahore. She had hoped for a wedding in December or January when the weather was considerably colder and the heavy, ornate bridal dresses could be easier to wear.

The outpost was known as Fort Holidays among the soldiers, but the officers mostly considered it a place of detention. Your superiors would send you there to get rid of you and help you “reconsider your inappropriate actions”. That last phrase was what captain Sarah Bendt heard along with her new commission. But unlike most officers she was not angry, […]

“Damn!” was my initial reaction when I arrived at the airport check in desk and found my flight back to London from my business meeting in Germany was delayed nearly three hours. I called my husband to tell him I’d be late. Then I reflected that there are worse things that can happen to a woman business traveler on her […]

Very few people realise that there is another dimension to our world, a place that exists between life and death, a place where you could perhaps say, dreams can come true. Even though we have all visited it on occasions, especially as children, it is not somewhere that we would knowingly accept as existing in its own right. I’m not […]

As usual, Luke had overslept. His mother didn’t try to hide her vexation with him as she shook him awake. As the boy stirred, a book slid off his bed and tumbled to the floor. “Get up!” she said. “It’s the first day of school and you don’t want to be late.”

One, short and curvy, vivacious, the other tall, slim and graceful. Arm and arm, tired after a long hot dusty day at the local Renaissance Faire, they weaved a bit as they strolled toward the exit gate. Their gauzy costume dresses flowed in the warm breeze. The taller girl shielded her eyes from the low, setting sun in front of […]

The bell chimed over the ship’s PA system, announcing the twelve-mile mark of our trek out to sea, officially starting our Nude Cruise! Megan and I laughed and stripped as fast as we could. This was by far the wildest thing we had ever done for spring break.