Through the mist and blinding flashes of light, she appeared in the most confident, immortal walk I have only imagined to be possible in a scripted scene, stopping short of my feet and tilting her head back at me. My chin received a hard grasp of her strong fingers, and my eyes shut instinctively as…Continue readingSlub
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Fourth Rotation
When the four of them returned from the balcony, Tim could smell the unmistakable stench of weed, though he wasn’t going to call in on them. One of them, after all, was his girlfriend Lisa. He was fine with anything they wanted to do as long as everyone enjoyed themselves. Him, being in the military,…Continue readingFourth Rotation
Mischief Undone
(Whispering softly) ‘J? Wake up.’ For Janice to be that soft, it must be something important that she didn’t want to wake her boyfriend up for. So I turned very slowly onto my back in that cramp bed, to see her lying between me and her boyfriend. A head-like silhouette, moving in the dark over…Continue readingMischief Undone
Shooting (on) Stars
‘Name?’ ‘Jay. J-A-Y.’ It took the ‘bouncer’, who was smoking/ keeping watch at the corridor, just a glance at his phone to instantly make him stub out his three-quarter stick of cigarette in a seemingly apologetic look, as if I was somebody important. ‘You name is on the list sir. I’ll need your bag.’ Thinking…Continue readingShooting (on) Stars
As the four of us came out of 7Eleven with our favourite hard liquor, which coincidentally were all different types (Gin, Vodka, Rum, Whiskey), these four girls blocking the entrance were caught up in a fishy, secretive discussion. Bearing no thoughts to them, we were about to head back to our hotel rooms when one…Continue readingFour Ways