Month: August 2021

For as long as I can remember, I lived right next door to Jennifer Newell. We never really talked, but she was always just there; we saw each other constantly coming or going, and our bedroom windows faced each other. I could see straight into her room whenever she left the curtains open. My desk offered the best view; from […]

James Lock stood at the front door of the run down old house and let out a big sigh. Every day was a lottery in his job; one day he was working in some luxury mansion being entertained by a bored housewife; and the next he was having to come to some shitty old house, in a shitty neighbourhood, to […]

I gave my wife, Helen, flowers lots of times but I only gave her roses on Valentine’s Day, a tradition we started from our first Valentine’s Day together. Our wedding anniversary, roses signified that Valentine’s Day was our most special day. Roses were her favorite flowers and a yellow rose was her favorite rose.

Sunlight is yellow. Autumn leaves are yellow and sometimes so is gold. All these things are beautiful but Rebekah is the most precious. She has hair like wheat, her eyes like burnished gold, and her skin is tawny. I paint her monochromatic, only hinting at all the shades of yellow that color her. She becomes simply yellow, like smiling suns […]

I like profiling people. Especially standing in the long line to check-in at the airport, there is nothing else to do. The terminal is dark and stuffed. There are people, people-fences, benches, luggage, x-ray scanners everywhere. The only interesting thing is to discover the gems of hot people in the masses. The counter for Air India was particularly crowded.

Yuliana was instantly transported back to the millions of times that Danny had come calling for her son. ‘Hello Yakov’s Mom, can Yakov come out to play?’ was a catchphrase she’d heard nearly every day for over ten years as the boys grew up together. She’d watch them go, tearing off over to the park across the street and know […]

One moment, Marc had a great job in a successful company, the next moment the job and company were. No one was sure why, and no one was talking. It suddenly seemed as if success had been an illusion, or a lie. Jane found Marc sitting in the kitchen with a beer. “You’re home from work, early, Marc. You okay?” […]

I cursed at the screen as it flashed ‘You lose’ for the umpteenth time. ‘God fucking damn it. How am I still so fucking bad at this shit’ I whined internally, raging at myself for getting dominated so easily. I slammed my fist angrily on the desk before leaning back in my chair, letting out a sigh. ‘Fuck this. I’m […]

Deb was a week from turning thirty-five but she wasn’t in the mood for celebrations. In fact, she’d been depressed for nearly six months because her husband, after fifteen years of marriage, had left for a younger woman. He was the only man she’d ever been with, having been high school sweethearts and getting married two years after graduation.

Jen and Sam had been together since junior high school and neither had been with anyone else when they married right out of school. That had been twenty years ago. From the very start of their relationship, they’d declared they didn’t want kids and Sam had even used condoms even though Jen was on the pill. A few years into […]