It was several months after my sixteenth birthday when something happened that would change my entire perspective of life. I was sitting at the kitchen table, eating dinner with my mother, when she proposed that I stay home on Saturday night and have a mo...
A couple attends a Halloween party filled with drinks and debauchery. Sultry maidens and ghouls dance amongst the pumpkins and headstones. As midnight approaches, proper etiquette is cast aside and inhibitions fade. A “behind the scenes” meeting quickly e...
The ringing of an alarm clock woke Richie from his precious slumber. He shut it off in a confused daze. There had to be some sort of mistake, he couldn’t have been asleep for more than a few minutes. He rolled over onto his side for a moment before sittin...
As Nick approached the Coquina Beach changing cabanas, he saw that Max and Jay were eagerly waiting for him. They both smiled and laughed from the moment that they saw him, clearly eager to collect on the debt that Nick had owed. Jay made an overexaggerat...
It was a typical mid-summer Saturday afternoon. A longtime friend, Mike, had invited me to stop over that evening to hang out. Mike’s house was about a ninety-minute drive away and it was inferred that there would be quite a bit of drinking involved, so I...
As Steve climbed into his vehicle after his shift at work, he had already decided to take a bit of a detour. He turned in the opposite direction that he normally took on the route home and instead headed out to make his weekly grocery run. Working on the...
Elise tossed and turned in her bed for most of the night. If she had slept at all, it was minimal at best. The previous days’ encounter with Justice continually replayed inside of her head and she couldn’t wait to see her again. She finally relented and g...
It had been a torturous past couple of days for Tim. He worked as a salesperson at the local branch of a national insurance company and he had been sent to a convention hosted by the parent company. It was all incredibly boring stuff and he felt like he w...
It was shortly after the end of the school day and Josh and Gavin were speeding toward Gavin’s house. It was part of their daily ritual at that time of the year. They both had baseball practice at 4:00, so there was a bit less than an hour to drive to Gav...
Early in the summer of 2019, my mother required surgery to repair a torn ligament in her right knee. She had been tending to her vegetable garden when she somehow got her feet tangled and fell to the ground. It seemed harmless enough at first, but when he...
Yuko walked briskly down the hallway of her school with her feet barely leaving the ground. Her gaze was directed mostly downward, but just far enough ahead to keep her from charging into the other students. As she reached the appropriate classroom, she f...
When I was in my mid-twenties, I started working at a nearby factory. I quickly made friends with a co-worker, Rick. He was two years older than me and had been married for a couple of years. We would occasionally go out drinking after work and soon becam...
Rosita meandered around inside her bedroom for most of the evening. There was a fair amount of multitasking as she streamed media while web surfing, playing PC games, texting and gaming on her phone, and playing games on her PS4. All the while, she had he...
Nathan stared at the clock in the lower right corner of his monitor, waiting for it to read 11:30 AM. For some unknown reason on that particular Friday, he was completely famished. He worked at a processing center for a regional insurance company. Occasio...
It was a typical Saturday afternoon for Tate. It was 2:00 pm and he was still meandering around the house in his pajamas. His father burst into his room suddenly. He rambled on about Tate getting his lazy ass into gear and getting dressed. He reminded Tat...
