By parker. “Damn it!” Annie Speer crumpled the small piece of pink paper and angrily tossed it across the room in the general direction of the waste paper basket. The tall blonde woman glared as it fell short and bounced along the worn carpet of the staff room. A glance at the clock hung on the wall confirmed her fears: it was just about 8:00 pm. Her shift should have been done almost an hour ago. She’d just finished washing
Read moreghandi “To find the derivative of something like x^3, take the exponent, put it at the front, and subtract one from that exponent. That’d be 3x^2,” a voice said in the back of Ellen’s mind. Eighteen-year old Ellen Cavendish sat in Intro to Calculus, half-listening to the teacher. Finding herself utterly unable to concentrate on the teacher, she turned her attention to more interesting things; like drawing people, flowers, and whatever else came to mind in her notebook. The boredom
Read moreBy Suemartin. Part 1 Somehow I had pictured Africa as being hot everywhere at all times, but that was not the case. The breeze was little more than gentle but it had the sharp cold edge that had to be blowing from some place cold. In this case it was snow. High up in the mountains the white capped peaks stood as towering testament to the fact that here, like most other places it could be cold in winter. The
Read moremilqand Lisa, an 19-year-old college girl, had a week off at school and she’d been up early the entire week. She lived close to the forest, so she decided to take her dog for a walk for a couple of hours. Lisa closed the door behind her and walked towards the little path at the side of the road with her dog on the leash. She played and chatted happily with her dog, a young, female shepherd called Amy. Lisa
Read moreDesigal It was well after midnight, and I was in my car, driving with my eyes completely focused on the road, and my mind reminding myself – don’t go above 40 mph, don’t go above 40 mph. Driving faster would have meant reaching home sooner for sure. But I was aware that I was still somewhat under the influence of alcohol I had consumed at the office party at the famed resort . I am usually very careful never to
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