What a waste of a beautiful Saturday afternoon, I thought to myself as I biked across town to meet with my group project partners. It was late April, and had been warm for awhile, but today was absolutely the most amazing day yet. People were out shopping, walking pets, or just enjoying the fresh air that carried more than the mere promise of summer. I pumped my legs harder, picking up speed. The wind blew my hair back an...

Hayley daydreamed as she stared at her computer screen, wondering if the day would ever end, if even lunchtime would ever arrive. Bored, she sipped her tea, then ate a sweet. She was still chewing on the sweet when she heard his voice. It was like stepping barefoot onto fresh snow; all of her senses were instantly alive, like a police siren flashing behind you. She could hear him through the open door to her office, talki...

I was travelling in a truck with Marty who was giving me a ride to Dallas. Marty’s truck broke down late in the afternoon about seven hundred miles from our destination. My journey with him thus far had been extremely pleasant. He was a chatty old guy who regaled me with trucking stories during our entire drive. After a lengthy discussion on his phone, he informed me that a breakdown was on the way but would only be arriv...

We were very fortunate for many years in the remote village where I grew up, because we had not been raided by the notorious Vikings that dominated the region. We always lived in fear that one day that could change, and regrettably, eighteen summers after I was born that dreaded day finally came to pass. We offered no resistance to our attackers because that would simply have been futile. They raped and plundered wantonly...

I was all dressed up in a heavy wedding lehenga. It's this traditional Indian wedding dress. It's always supposed to be heavy, shiny and mostly red. The one that I was wearing was in red and blue, with lots of handcrafted work done over it. To complete the look, a had put on a lot of matching jewelry. I looked nothing less than an Indian princess. And there I was, waiting for my to be husband to enter the wedding venue. I...

Jeremy saw himself as the personification of elegance. He was always attired in a monochromatic fashion, sticking mainly to black and shades of grey with the odd touch of white, here and there. He was slim, very slim, and watched his weight meticulously. Standing five feet eight inches tall, he weighed one hundred and thirty pounds. He wasn’t exactly skeletal, but his weight was twenty pounds under what it should have bee...

Three more bends up the hill, and I would be back in the safe havens of the hostel. I had been jogging at quite a brisk pace for over two miles now. But the early morning fog and the ensuing chill caught up every time you stopped for a breather. In this merciless December winter, the body sought warmth above everything else. A lot more was on my mind however, as I stopped by the fifteenth milestone, and surveyed the caref...

After that weekend, things around the house changed. We adopted a sort of communal free-love kind of arrangement between the four of us. Of course, it didn't happen all at once, but sex between each of the girls and I (or in a few instances between the girls themselves) gradually became more frequent and less secretive. Eventually it wasn't even a private thing at all. If two of us were feeling horny, we fucked. If someon...

One Monday morning, a very light trickle from a closed bathroom faucet had turned into a steady flow. Not wanting to receive a hefty water bill, I decided that action finally needed to be taken. After contacting my boss to explain my situation, my boss told me to take the day off, fix the problem, and enjoy a relaxing day, once my plumbing dilemma had been sorted out. Having put in a lot of extra time at work in the prece...