Ah, the life of a college student. It makes it a lot easier on me to have someone with whom I can share the workload. My sister is great – she’s much more organised than me, and she helped me more than once organise myself, while I help her with memorization. Unfortunately, we can’t share… Read More Short Story: The car in the fog

The proposal came unexpectedly, in a neat, no nonsense package which left me reeling with shock. All my life I wondered if I could do such a thing. Now I know. She first came in a couple of years ago – three years, two months and one week to be exact. I remember how her… Read More Short Story: Karma

The night shift was beginning. I sipped at my coffee. Although I had had a full eight hours of sleep that day, I knew I would need it. The body’s overpowering need to sleep during the night hours could be countered with massive doses of caffeine and humor. I used both – extensively. My eyes… Read More RN Holmes

What do you do when you have become what you loathe most, doing things you never would have imagined yourself doing? You spend years looking down at such behaviour, thinking that you would never stoop to such a level, that you’d never fail your high moral standards, that you’d never reach the depths of depravity… Read More The Other Woman

Ah, the life of a college student. It makes it a lot easier on me to have someone with whom I can share the workload. My sister is great – she’s much more organised than me, and she helped me more than once organise myself, while I help her with memorization. Unfortunately, we can’t share… Read More The Car in the Fog

I was late for work again. And it was because of my writing. It was going nowhere, and was again in the way of my “real” career as an ER nurse. Enough! Never again! I shoved my papers at the back of my drawer. I had five issues of nursing journals to read. I had… Read More The Cream-Colored Envelope