The Sabbatical

Shabbadew2002 (shabbadew@ca.rr.com) Part 1 When she graduated from the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia, in late spring 2009, Cassandra Ackerman, known by her friends as Cassie, promised herself a sabbatical. She booked a flight and left in late May for Thailand. After a few days in the north, she ended up in Bangkok. There, she swam at the beaches of Pattaya and Naklua, shopped, flirted with boys, hung out with kids from the United States and Australia,

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The Trespasser

Alpha_Female “Finally,” Ashley exclaimed, vaulting over the final fence dividing her estate from their neighbour’s. “I can’t believe him,” she groaned, pacing over to a tree and throwing a fist into it. “Gah, The nerve of that man,” Earlier that morning she had awoken to her roaring husband’s foul breath in her nose, screaming at the top of his lungs. She wasn’t even sure why he was so angry with her, now that she thought back, perhaps it was due

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Training Mai Lin

By lovnbowser. I was a nineteen-year-old junior with a modicum of talent. During the summer program, the assistant administrator of women’s athletics approached me about sharing a room and mentoring an incoming freshman hotshot swimmer. We had finished second in the NCAA women’s swimming championships, and this new freshman was supposed to be the answer for us to climb to the pinnacle. I wasn’t a swimmer. I played basketball. However, I was acknowledged as someone who could adapt and get

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