By Larry LaForge
As she finished her morning coffee the barista handed her a form. “If you loved it . . .”
Before class the professor helped her. He casually mentioned the rate-your-professor website.
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The Carnival Boys
By Damien W. Green
They sent out the dogs hoping to find the scent and track those dirty bastards down. Stealing radioactive chickens and selling their eggs to the Soviets. We had them in sting, a perfect set-up but one of the guys was listening to his Walkman, someone said it was The Smiths, and didn’t hear them pull in. Heaven knows I’m miserable now. So we had to send the dogs out in hopes of finding them before dark puts the clamps down. The state line is only four to five miles south so time is of the essence. We’ve sent Deputy Jon Johnson ahead as well. He’s a runner, mostly marathons but some smaller events as well. He’s won the annual Slaughter’s Mad Dash 5k three years in a row. In a town where the largest employer is a slaughter house that’s the kind of thing you get.
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Ghost
By David King
There’s a ghost in my house, and I’ve seen it.
I have always had an open mind about that kind of thing and I’ve never really leaned one way or the other on it; I’ve seen television programs that made it look like ghosts are real and I’ve seen other things that are blatantly fake (Google isn’t always your friend). But something happened to change all that.
I saw it one morning when I went to the bathroom. I had finished brushing my teeth and I was standing there, looking at myself in the square mirror on the cabinet. I live alone in my house, so you can imagine my surprise when, right there in the reflection, the bathroom door slowly opened behind me. [Read more…] about Ghost
Office Girl
By Jackie Law
Looks can be deceiving. She appeared to be just another young woman, beautiful in a conventional if bland way, but nothing more. Her grooming could not be faulted, her choice of clothes stylish but unimaginative. If she attracted attention it was only from the men who thought of getting her into their bed; she consistently rebuffed all such attempts.
She lived alone in a flat that had been created when a large town house had been renovated by a small time property developer some ten years previously. An elderly neighbour commented that she resembled a woman who had once lived there; she took pains to avoid this neighbour from then on.
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The List
By L.S. Engler
Pat, the first one. Chris, who was colorblind. Andy, just messing around.
Sam, kind of into kink. Sam and Jeremy, camping in PA. Bob, kind of a blur.
Jennifer 1, history professor. Jennifer 2, rebound. Patrick, one-night-stand.
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Potato Chips from Hell
By Miles White
Edward, Craig and Brett all had wives who were pretty much cool about it now. On Saturday nights the guys went out. None of them told their wives where they were going because it was always someplace new. The women did know what the boys were going to do once they got there. That they had talked about, not that they were exactly happy to hear it. The boys had made up their minds though, so there were ground rules laid and there were lines drawn that were never to be crossed; after that everybody stopped talking about it. At least their men were not out there on a Saturday night chasing girls; they were out there walking around being girls.
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