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Cassandra’s day was crawling by like a wounded snail. It was early afternoon and there was nothing to do but watch the servants prepare lunch. She stood there watching Lilly, her cook, wash the lettuce. “Lilly, is there something I can help you with?” she asked. “No, all is under control,...

“Shut up! Are you serious? She did what?”             I glanced up from the music I was reading to glare at my roommate, Bella.  She glanced at me and mouthed s0rry before going back to listening to whomever it was she was talking to.             “Are you...

Jill stepped into the nightclub ready to relieve the stress she’d collected after a busy day. A couple of handsome men caught her eye and activated her sexual imagination. It had, after all, been over a year since she’d had a relationship with a man. She wondered what some of those good-looking...

Elijah paced back and forth across the office of Owen Clarke—his lawyer. He felt like an animal caught in the headlights, just waiting for the inevitable blow that would crush him. A whole team of lawyers, and this was the best they could come up with? If it wasn’t Owen sitting at the desk in...

Mia loved her job. Writing an advice column for sexually troubled people was a task she was perfectly suited for. She had a therapy degree and an uncanny ability to place herself in other’s people’s shoes. Every day, her inbox greeted her with a new challenge. Monday morning was no exception....

Michael closed his eyes and took a deep breath, reminding himself for the umpteenth time this was no big deal. He’d stood in the middle of heated boardrooms and barked out orders. He had stared down presidents of multi-billion-dollar corporations. Certainly, he could do this. At least, he was fairly...

            I sat in the hard leather loveseat in the lobby of the office. There were two other people there also waiting. Like me, they were dressed professionally, and I wondered if they were also here for an interview. I looked around. The office was nice with the usual copies of well-known...

Lucia nursed her drink while she sat at the bar. She dangled the cherry in front of her lips, sticking her tongue out to grab the fruit into her mouth. She knew that she had the attention of every man in the room. But there was only one man that she wanted to come over to her. He had been sitting...

              “Don, I got tickets for the concert in the park for next month. I hope the weather will be nice for it,” I said to my husband as he stuffed papers into his briefcase. “I do love concerts in the park. Don’t you?”             “Hmm,” was...

Samantha’s morning started out all wrong. Oversleeping meant she had to spring out of the bed and frantically put herself together in order to get to the TV Station on time for work. “Why didn’t you wake me up?” she yelled to her husband as he dragged himself to the bathroom. He shrugged...

            “Amy, I need you to work tonight. Samira called out. Again.”             I looked up at the head pediatric nurse. “Sure, Connie. I can do that.”             She gave me a relieved smile. “Thanks. I asked you first because I knew...

The big city was a scary place. When I first got off the bus, and gazed at the wild world around me, I thought I was going to pass out. The giant crowds of people sweeping past me on the sidewalk, the mean faces, the noise. Everything was breathtaking for a girl like me raised in Red River, Tennessee. Gawking...

Molly stepped into the science lab, ready for another busy day of work. “Good morning, Kim,” she said to her boss. Kim greeted her with a smile. “Good morning! We’ve got some really interesting work today. The subject is already in the observation room and ready to begin.” “Great....

Mia loved her job. Writing an advice column for sexually troubled people was a task she was perfectly suited for. She had a therapy degree and an uncanny ability to place herself in other’s people’s shoes. Every day, her inbox greeted her with a new challenge. Monday morning was no exception....