Father figure - Chapter 1: Problem Child
"Pain, it's the only thing that reminds me I'm alive." Jim thinks as he looks at his swollen paw. He's sitting in the Principal's office, he and Roger got in a fight about ice cream. Nobody knows why two 18 year old lions would...
Part 13 - Visiting the Hospital & THE FINAL PART - Birthday boy
Part 13 - Hospital Visit It's early Sunday morning and the sun is already burning my skin through the window as the car stops in the hospital's parking lot. My parents are here for the day so we can visit Aunt Sally. We walk down the...
Part 12 - Bail
Good wine, good food and the girl I want to spend the rest of my life with, the ingredients for a perfect date. Tracy and I sit in the restaurant, preparing to order. "What'll you have sir?" the waiter asks me. "I'll have the calamari...
Part 10 - Through the eyes of a lion (part1/2) & Part 11 - Through the eyes of a lion (part2/2)
Part 10 - Through the eyes of a lion (part 1/2) Sometimes you think you know someone, even someone you've known your entire life. Then in an instant, they change. It's like inverting the colors of a picture, that person turns into the...
Part 9 - How NOT to break up with someone
I wake up in my bed, "3rd of January..." I mutter to myself as soon as I open my eyes. Today is the day, the day I have to face the music, the day that I have to choose between Tracey and James. I walk down the hall to the kitchen to...
Part 7 - Christmas & Part 8 - A New Year
Part 7 - Christmas The plater drifts on the water as I put it into the washing sink. "you'd better get ready, we're going to Aunt Sally again. James is going to be there too so you guys can catch up a bit." I hear my dad's voice from...
Reuniting old friends
It was mid-summer in Africa, the hottest time of the year. Rhodney was sitting next to his date at the annual year end function of their company. The suit was too small for him, guess synthia, his girlfriend, doesn't know his size. "I can't...
Guys' night
It was Friday night, 'the' Friday night, when the guys got together and forgot about everything. Their girlfriends, work, life and all such things. Normally they would go out to a club, but tonight they decided would be different... The doorbell...
The Sleepover
Friday night, the night when teenagers celebrate the fact that they are free from the bounds of school for the next two days. It's a small town, mostly farmers, but there are people living in town. Ben and Dan walk home from school, "Damn I...
No smoking!
"Smoking?" he says to himself, pacing up and down in the living room. He's livid. "Why the hell would he be smoking?" he thinks out loud. Kevin looks up at the clock, almost time for his son to get home. Kevin sits down on the...
Secret Love Part 6 - The Dream
I wake up, even though the curtains are still closed, the sun is shining brightly through the window, giving the room a blue ambience. I turn around in bed and try to sleep a bit more, even though it's christmas. Slowly the door opens, I open my...
Secret Love Part 5 - Visiting Aunt Sally
Visiting Aunt Sally Road, road and more road. It's the day before Christmas and my mom insisted we all go to visit Aunt Sally. Now Aunt Sally is a gentle old lady, a little older than my mom, but for the last couple of years she's been...