I knelt at my wife’s grave and laid a bouquet of her favorite flowers on it. It had been three years to the day since I laid her in it. Memories raced through my mind; our first date, our first kiss, our wedding, the birth of our daughter. On and on the memories went, until I once again faced the stark moment when it all ended. Injured in a car crash, Karen had died in the back of an ambulance before I even knew what had...

Anna skipped down the street from the high rise where she lived with her parents. There were three of them and they all had twelve floors and sat on a hill. During the winter, cars with front-wheel drive would have a problem coming up the street if it wasn't properly sanded and salted. But now it was a gloriously warm day at the end of May. Just another week of school and then the summer holidays. Maybe this what gave Ann...

It was December of 1982. Kelly wore a white sheer top and a rah-rah mini-skirt to work on a Monday. She left her bra and panties at home. She received appreciative looks--no, stares--from all of the men. Each, at some point during the day, made a point to stand before her and study her tits with various degrees of subtlety. Kelly was positive that by the end of the day none of them knew that she has blue eyes. Kelly, bein...

I saw Miranda across the street as soon as I came around from the backyard. It was a hot, muggy Saturday afternoon on an August long weekend. My neighbour was dressed for the steamy weather in tight little shorts and a string bikini top. Pausing, I drank in that sight with a soft sigh. Miranda was standing over her lawn mower with a sour look on her pretty face. As I watched, she pulled the ripcord hard a couple times wit...

After a weekend without company, Marnie showed up after school on Monday. She showed up with my Grand-daughter, who immediately excused herself, saying she had a final to cram for.  To be perfectly honest, part of me was disappointed that Marnie hadn't come alone, seeing as Morgan's presence would put a damper on things. Or, so I thought.  Marnie sat at the kitchen table and asked for my help with her algebra homework. I...

The taxi rolled slowly along the tree-lined street in suburbia. I watched kids bicycling and grown-ups setting up BBQs or lounging in the warm sunlight. It was a Sunday in July, and I had been gone for almost two years. Two long dusty years I had spent with my wife in a hell hole in Africa. We were both freelancers and had decided to fly over to report on the situation. The first eighteen months were fine that was until a...

I wasn’t awaked by the sunlight streaming through my window and hitting my face. I didn’t wake because of the mild hangover headache. I didn’t even wake because the covers had moved off my body during the night and my naked body was a feeling a bit chilled. No. I woke because I smelled coffee. The delightful aroma of those magical beans was what had my eyes popping open. I gasped and pulled the covers back up to hide my n...

I twirled in front of the mirror, excitedly admiring what I saw. "Thank goodness she doesn't believe in making us look as ugly as possible," I said aloud to no one. I checked the clock on the nightstand; I still had plenty of time to finish getting ready before meeting my best friend in her room to help her get ready for her wedding. Anastasia and I had been best friends since we were seven. And at twenty-eight, we were s...

For just a moment after opening her eyes Julie didn't know where she was. As her eyes became accustomed to the darkened room she was able to pick out the shape of the furniture, thanks to the sliver of light coming through the blackout curtain. That's when she remembered that she was in a suite at a local four-star hotel. The clock on the nightstand told her that she had been asleep for only ten minutes. 'It wasn't suppos...