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The Podiatrist and Stadium Girl
Chapter 1: I Meet the Podiatrist It all started coming down from the top of Half Dome in Yosemite. I wasn’t really looking where I was putting my feet. A rock I stepped onto moved, not much, but enough that I tripped and twisted my ankle. I assumed it would just clear up with the…
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Steph
Chapter 1: Mysterious Chat Friend My name is Stephanie although everyone calls me Steph. I was only just 15 when this story started. I’m an orthodox Jew so I’ve been brought up in a very sheltered environment. We didn’t get told anything about sex, for example, but the internet is a friend and I’d managed…
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I Like to Be Second
Paul reached out and silenced the alarm clock. It was already light, he didn’t need to get up early since it was a Sunday morning. But Sundays were the best day of the week for him because he would go to church. After the service everyone would mingle together in the hall next door and…
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Guest Services: Owen
Chapter 1: The Desert It was a Monday and Owen was in his studio doing some retouching of photographs he’d taken of the desert. Of course these days retouching meant Photoshop not some subtle skill such as dodging with the enlarger. His phone vibrated in his pocket. But he was busy and it would be…
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I Like to Be Watched
Prologue The first time was in the fraternity house. There had been a big party. We weren’t old enough to drink but you don’t need to know much about fraternities to know that the alcohol flowed freely anyway. There was a keg and some sort of fruit punch that enough vodka had gone into that…
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Beware the Geeks Again
Chapter 1: Shannon Remember me. Morag. The geek who uses her computer skills to solve crimes and mysteries. Except actually I use my body. Let me remind you about myself. I actually am a computer whizz. I have a PhD in computer science from MIT. I have a good body but not a great one.…
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The Reverend
Chapter 1: Lord Devon The footman opened the door to Lord Devon’s study and showed the guest in. He was a clergyman, dressed in a long black robe with a white dog-collar. “Ah, Reverend Robinson, I’m so pleased to meet you face to face at last.” “Lord Devon, the pleasure is all mine,” the Reverend…
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Mountain Biking
Chapter 1: Saturday Mountain Biking I was out mountain biking as I did most weekends. The friends I usually went with were out of town so I was just out on my own. I was descending a narrow single-track fast. I came around a blind corner. My hands were on my brakes the moment that…
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The Realtor
Chapter 1 I noticed that there was an open house in the condo next door to mine. I knew that the people had put it up for sale, they had had a baby and pretty much moved out to the suburbs. I decided to go round. Of course I was just being nosy really, I…
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Catherine
Chapter 1 Catherine looked across her desk at the interview candidate. Fiona had just graduated high school. Catherine liked to hire smart high school graduates who had not been to college as her administrative assistants. They didn’t have bad habits and she could train them herself. Plus they got very loyal, she had given them…