Month: September 2021

Don’t you guys need to say ‘I do’?” Jurian whispered to Alizeh over the droning sound of the priest chanting mantras. The flames in the fire pit in front of them, crackled to life as the priest threw some powders in it. They had used some artificial wood to light a fire. “Oh no!” Alizeh grabbed his hand with force. […]

“You look tensed and so out of your element,” Ash remarked, holding open the door for Nina to enter, “Did something happen?” “Just some issues with Lean,” Nina mumbled, settling herself on the small sofa. The effects of alcohol were wearing away slowly. “You have so many issues with her always,” Ash grumbled, taking off his shoes and putting them […]

It was getting late. The sun could be seen disappearing below the horizon through the window. Two women sat upon a couch in a dimly lit room, made only a little brighter by a television in front of them. Cindy, the thinner of the two, peered down between her bangs at a book she had been clutching for the past […]

Lucy is delicious. There is simply no other way to describe her. She’s 30, dark, brunette and grey eyes, a body that just draws attention no matter where she goes. We’ve been married nine years and I’ve never seen her unhappy or blue. She simply lights up the room when she walks in. A few months ago, I discovered her […]

“It’s okay,” I reassured myself. “This is always before the premier.” But the fear did not go anywhere; he held my scrotum in a cold fist. “What if it doesn’t work? What if they don’t understand?” On the other side of the stage, my partner must have been just as worried. I thought about her, how much we rehearsed, how […]

For as long as I can remember anxiety has ever been present in life and now at the age of twenty-three, I still struggled with it. Awkwardness and weirdness followed me daily, yet inclusivity made me happy. I was grateful for the few friends in my life. They were aware of my extreme shyness and have accepted me fully. They […]

Miriam was warned not to stray from the path. The hunters and the traders in the village all told her that the road through the Tanglewood had its own hazards at the best of times, and wound through the forest as though a line randomly drawn on the map. But it remained the safest way through the Tanglewood, oft travelled […]

Kelley turned her SUV into the driveway and quickly killed the lights as she turned the engine off. A quick glance at the clock on the dash showed 3:47. She sat thinking for a few moments in the darkness before saying aloud for at least the hundredth time, “Shit. What did I do? Tom is gonna kill me.” She had […]

“It wasn’t surprising to see half-naked athletes milling around the sports complex. Lucky coaches, I thought, swinging open the big glass door while looking at two swole shirtless football players, one with long curly black hair and another with a blond high and tight military cut, leaning against a front column watching something on their phones. I swear one of […]

Pearl pushed her cart absentmindedly through the store, gazing in awe at some of the more exotic wares available for purchase in Furcadia. It was so very tempting to stock up all at once, but she reminded herself that she still had several more weeks to visit and there would always be more time for that later. She settled on […]