It is just after 10:00 at night. After an exhausting seven hour trip I have finally make it to my fourth-floor room. I am really pissed off that I have had to undertake this emergency business trip. Especially since it is to a city that I have never vis...
My apartment is on the second floor of a three-story building in an older development. As an older building, it has far more character than the new cookie-cutter high-rises. While the quirky units are nice, the lack of air-conditioning was a big drawback...
It was July seventeenth and the day of our group’s annual picnic. Ever since we’d graduated from college ten years ago we’d had a summer picnic. The first one had been to blow off steam the weekend after we’d learned that we’d passed our exams and would b...
Just over a month into my final year of university and I was hosting another of my biweekly get togethers. As parties in the rat hole, the affection name given to my apartment, went this one was dead. It was about nine o’clock and, while all the regular c...
That was an absolutely fantastic weekend, I thought as I drove back to the city on Sunday after spending the last weekend in June with my folks at their cottage. While both days had been hot and sunny with temperatures in the mid to high thirties, it was...
‘This is it. I’m going to do it,’ thought Jane. ‘No!’ she thought shaking her head, ‘I’m not going to do it!’ ‘I’m doing it!’ As she reached into her room for the light switch she thought back to that fateful Friday night about a month ago. She’d come hom...
I am alone and lonely in a distant hotelIt's a frigid cold night out I can tellFrom the bundled up people I can see walking the street I'm on the third day of my stay A tough business trip with no time to play I've had great success but I'm a little beat...
It was 9:25 on Thursday morning. I was in an elevator with eight other people on my way to the eleventh floor for a job interview. I’d been looking for a job ever since graduating third in my class with a bachelor of business, and even six months prior to...
I'm naked and alone in the dark Watching out my hotel window at the park I'm waiting, waiting, waiting for the right moment My heart beats in anticipation As I keep my station I try, try, try to be calm and patient Then I see a chance A twenty something w...
Life in rural Ontario was tough in the mid-1800s. Farming families were able to make a living but it was hard work every day of the year. In spring they planted and hoped that the crops took, in summer they worried about drought, in fall they harvested an...
It was just after 9:00 on Monday morning and I was just finishing up with unpacking boxes into my new cubicle when Jocelyn, Mr. Jeffries’ secretary, dropped by and said, “Jane, Mr. Jeffries would like to see you in his office if possible.” “Sure,” I repli...
It was just after 9:00 on Tuesday morning, and I had just arrived at Tower Productions on Grant Street. I had received a telephone call three weeks ago from Jeff at Tower Productions who said that he had received my application for being a contestant on J...
Anonymous Pleasure As I stood under the shower and let its warm spray wash over my body, I thought back to how frustrating the day had been. Everything seemed to go wrong. It all started when I told my boyfriend that my boss wanted me travel to Rosetown f...
