Month: October 2021

There was a big storm hitting the east coast, remnants of a full-blown hurricane. It had calmed down a bit but still caused many flight cancelations and delays. I landed at JFK airport and it began raining hard. My connecting flight to Chicago was canceled so I was stuck there for the night. I went to my usual hotel in […]

Ada stepped out of the nightclub and onto the street. The air was filled with the warmth of the city in midsummer and so, despite the early hour of the morning, she felt no need to don her bolero. Her evening had been spent, as so many of them were in the madness of youth and freedom, dancing and drinking. […]

I’m a bitch. I don’t know exactly when I became a bitch. I suppose it was sometime after the twins entered puberty that I decided that my life had peaked and all I had to look forward to was motherhood, obligations, and aging. I wasn’t always so pessimistic but somewhere along the line I traded youthful enthusiasm for midlife fatalism. […]

Josie sighed as she glanced at the time on her computer screen. It was after eleven at night. The office was dark apart from her desk lamp, and the only sound that filled the space was the clacking of her typing. She was dead tired and wanted to go home and pass out, but Josie was determined to excel at […]

It was a warm, humid summer’s day in Sydney, Australia. I sat in my apartment looking at the screen of my laptop. I’d just received an email, and I was deliberating over how to respond. I chewed absent-mindedly on my thumbnail and re-read the email in front of me. “Hi Matt, you big stud! It’s Mia and Iris here…remember us?” […]

Tess Scott had a great life! She was a beauty at 44 years old. She turned heads with her large brown eyes under thick dark lashes, pouty full lips under a cute little pierced nose. Her long brown hair fell in waves down her back, and she had curves with a full 34D chest. Her body wasn’t of a 20-year-olds, […]

Mark and Barbara had been recently engaged. They were living in a nice, suburban house. A new, young couple, headed straight towards creating a beautiful family. He owned a relatively big-sized business, and worked diligently and hard for it to prosper, while Barbara had an office job that meaningfully contributed to society. It was a warm summer, most of the […]

It was the next morning, and her lover Edward had his head firmly planted between her thighs. Until the previous evening, he had been known as E.D., shorthand for “Erectile Dysfunction,” and had been one of the most despised men in all of Des Moines. The Change had cursed him, and all around him, with impotence, and he had been […]

It was a cold and stormy day, which seemed only appropriate, as my mood was quite dreary as well. It was this day that my idyllic life would come to an end. No more lovely afternoon teas and darling fireside evenings with my sisters and mother. The balls where I would dance myself dizzy in the arms of charming young […]

She was into sales when he first met her. He had come home from college and was spending the summer holidays with his folks. It was his first year at uni and he didn’t do the usual student escape to the beach. He loved his parents and decided to spend the holidays with them. Besides, he kind of owed them. […]