It was a beautiful Saturday afternoon in the early spring. The sun was shining down warmly, the snow was melting, and the sound of running water and chirping birds echoed in the air. Like many other people, we were out around town running errands and doing some neglected tasks. Surprisingly, my husband, Rob, pulled the car into an unfamiliar parking lot. I looked around at the businesses, spying an accountant’s office, a...

They say you should always expect the unexpected. It turns out they were right. We live in a small community, about a ninety-minute drive from the city. Our town provides the necessities - there is a supermarket, a pharmacy, a coffee shop, a gas station, a bank - but trips to the city are inevitable. The new year hadn’t started the way we had hoped, riddled with sickness and tragic loss, meaning I had to make an unexpecte...

Nick blew in the door in a whirlwind of snow, stomping his feet and cursing under his breath. He knew that it was inevitable that tonight’s event would be cancelled due to the storm. He’d barely stepped five feet into the nearly abandoned mall when his phone dinged. “Thanks to the snowstorm, 'Santa After Hours' has been cancelled tonight. We’ll be in touch when it has been rescheduled.” Fuck. He had been very excited for...

My fingers typed out the hasty message, “Something came up. You’ll have to take an Uber. Sorry.” I hesitated before sending it, knowing he would be disappointed, but felt sure that what I had planned would make up for it. Chris’s flight was due home in two hours. He’d been gone four long weeks for work, which was fairly routine by now. When he was seated on the plane, I would always send him flirty texts telling him what...

The moonlight shining through the window illuminated the bedroom like daylight, making it impossible to sleep. Truth be told, I had been tossing and turning all night, full of nervous energy that needed to be channelled into something productive. Tonight was the night. Recital night. The culmination of months of meticulous practice. I was ready, but needed to calm my anxious nerves. I threw on my sweats and a T-shirt, gra...

It was one of those days. If it could go wrong, it did. What should have been a quick, routine flight to end the day had dragged into hours stuck on the tarmac. We couldn’t leave the gate because the plane would be due for routine maintenance upon arrival at its last stop, and there was nobody in the small town who could complete it. Rather than switch all the passengers and luggage to a new plane, the airline decided to...

It was a quick, forty-minute commuter flight I had taken dozens of times. Nothing out of the ordinary had ever happened on it. This particular day, I was late choosing my seat and ended up in seat 32F—the very last row of the plane, in the window seat. I boarded early, stowed my bag in the overhead compartment, and settled in for the short flight. I thought I had lucked out - nobody claimed the two seats beside me (the fl...

"Cheers!” Our glasses clinked and we took a sip. It may only be 7:00 am, but as the saying goes, it was five o’clock somewhere, right? Eight happy but sleep-deprived faces sat around the table in the airport lounge, waiting for the boarding call that would transport us to paradise. This vacation had been the result of a girls’ night a couple of months ago. Janet was lamenting about having to spend a whole week with her hu...

A single tear fell on my phone as I stared at those last five words. The first time I read them, my heart shattered. The tears flowed. Now reading them for the millionth time, my heart remains numb. The waterfall of tears has become a single tear. Days have stretched into weeks and months. And yet, despite the pain, I foolishly cling to hope. Hope that today will be the day that he reads my response. Hope that today will...

The peaceful, quiet atmosphere of Jack’s office, as he worked late into the evening, was broken by an indistinct sound. It caught his attention and piqued his curiosity. What was it? Was it something that required his attention? Jack was an engineer who had just bought the building three months ago to act as a temporary home for his offices. After turning forty years old, he decided he needed to leave the security of the...

The touchdown of the wheels on the tarmac immediately brought a smile to my face. It felt like coming home after twenty-five years. We had been invited back to Josh’s Alma Mater where he had been chosen to receive an honorary doctorate and asked to give the commencement address. Tied in with the graduation festivities would be his twenty-five-year class reunion. We were both excited to reconnect with old friends and visit...

The familiar weight of Sam’s arm wrapping around me and firmly grabbing my breast pulled me from my peaceful slumber. I sank against him as he spooned me, not wanting to wake up. But his hard cock pressing into me, and his insistent fingers on my nipple told me that sleep was no longer an option. My eyes slowly opened, finding the room glowing in the light from the full moon, giving the illusion of dawn, despite it only b...

It had been six weeks since I picked up my life and moved across the country in search of a fresh start. A new beginning in a new year. I traded in the frigid cold of Toronto for the more moderate, albeit wet and somewhat dreary, climate of Vancouver. I accepted a job at the University of British Columbia, and rented a condo in an affluent neighbourhood just off campus. I quickly settled into a new routine. There was a tr...

The room swirled around him. His heart raced out of his chest. He had to remind himself to breathe. This wasn’t really happening. It had to be a bad dream - surely he would open his eyes any moment now, and none of this would be happening. Only, it wasn’t a dream. It was very real. “Landon? What do you have to say for yourself?” Andrew queried in a stern voice. Andrew was a co-owner of the plumbing company Landon had work...

The warm Autumn sun was beating down on me as I took advantage of the perfect day to do some yard work. I had worked up a sweat as I raked the leaves and separated some of my perennials in my flower bed. The perspiration was running down between my breasts, despite wearing only a tank top and shorts. A familiar car slowed at our driveway and pulled in. It was Jeff and Kim. I hadn’t seen them since the the night they invit...