‘Just how much exactly did you drink?’, I asked as Jia Ying began stumbling while merely standing in the lift, with her face red like a lobster and clothes in disarray. ‘Just.. half a bottle? I think.. I just kept drinking once I booked the car.. I just want to sleep once I get here..…Continue readingCrash Landing
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(Winnie asked) ‘Coffee for you uncle?’ ‘Oh yes please. That would be nice.’ Sitting on the study table amongst the girls who had just finished decorating the hotel room to celebrate my daughter’s sixteenth birthday, I was just touched and grateful that she had them as friends. Witty, cheerful, and forward-thinking, it was then I…Continue reading4-way
Unforgivable
‘Hey dad.. ‘ I wasn’t sure if I had completely missed what she said after that as the next thing I felt was some movements over my crotch, which genuinely jolted me awake in case my ‘faithfulness’ was challenged. Instead, all I saw was just my precious little girl all curled up (on the couch)…Continue readingUnforgivable
Humpty Dumpty
‘Are you comfortable?’, Ben asked as if they were going to be in his car for a long time, but Maeve, already had some idea of what – he was playing at. Staring into his anticipative eyes with her dreamy ones, she answered him in an alcohol-laced, slurred voice ‘yes I am. Are you?’ Right…Continue readingHumpty Dumpty
Young Wild Things
(Jesslyn slurring) ‘Hey.. thanks for coming.. and bringing us home tonight.. I know we didn’t.. really include you in our conversations tonight.. I just want to thank.. thank.. ‘ ‘It’s alright. It’s good to meet the friends who saw my sister through her poly days. I mean, I didn’t think that a bunch of studious…Continue readingYoung Wild Things
