Training day: the day after

Sophie and John left the bar hand-in-hand. Outside they paused, a look of uncertainty in their eyes. This was their third date in as many weeks: first coffee, then dinner and now a movie followed by drinks. How many dates did it take before you’re no longer just testing the waters? “Would you like me […]

Usually, John was the only one in the office building that used the bathroom showers. The only one on this floor at least. There were over twenty floors and three to four different companies on each level. Those companies each shared two bathrooms – for men and women – and one shower area. Most people […]

In the distance Mia could already see the red roof of her piano-teacher’s home. Her hand fidgeting with the edge of her skirt as she thought of the ordeal that would come within the hour. She remembered the first time she had walked this road. She had been angry then, her father had sent her […]