With heavy traffic causing everything to come to a standstill, the poor ventilation on the bus made the trip even more uncomfortable than Brian had expected. The suspension of train services that weekend had forced everyone onto alternative transport, and Brian's bus journey was making him bored and frustrated. He needed some form of escape, and it was safe to say that the woman sitting beside him provided it. "I'm sure t...

Josh knew he would have found what happened funny if he hadn't been one of the victims. A stranger tripping and spilling coffee on him wasn't particularly special, but he felt that capturing two people at once deserved some recognition. As the perpetrator scurried away without apologising, Josh shook his head and rolled his eyes in solidarity with his fellow victim. Holly's anger about her misfortune had made her want to...

"If I sit in your lap, at least I'll give my feet a break, if nothing else," Dawn said after discovering a computer glitch had assigned the same train seat to two passengers. Lee smiled at Dawn's philosophical take on the chaos and felt it warranted a response in keeping with her light-hearted style. "If you do that, I'll get thrown off the train, so you'll get a seat anyway," Lee replied, making Dawn laugh louder than sh...

"Your challenge, if you have the balls: To rhyme yourself inside my smalls. So, if you'd like to have some fun, then simply do what must be done." Denise watched Craig's face as she spoke, hoping her random choice was as carefree as she was. "A fitting test for such a prize? I'll try to coax your moans and sighs. If we go somewhere discreet, we won't cause mayhem in the street," Craig replied, strengthening Denise's belie...

As Bob offered his apologies, Jill scooped up her belongings, which had fallen from her handbag onto the floor due to the accidental collision. "If I weren't such a cheapskate, I'd get the zipper fixed or buy a new one," Jill said, putting down her shopping to gather what had fallen from her bag onto the floor. Bob was often quite clumsy, so he watched with sympathy as Jill struggled to put her carrier bag on the floor, c...

"OK, I'll give you that one," Julia said with a smile. Julia's challenge to Mick to talk her into bed without a single tired line or cliche had been one he had been keen to accept. However, he knew his limitations, and when Julia asked him to explain his plans to entertain her, his brisk walk into his kitchen surprised her. Mick had never imagined his coffee mug or the recently bought treat for his dog would have proved t...

The snowstorm hit the city quite unexpectedly, compounding the frustration caused by the transport drivers’ strike action. It was a chilly Friday evening, the kind when most city workers who lived and worked within the urban sprawl hurried to get home. The unprecedented blizzard, one not witnessed in over three centuries, coupled with the ongoing strike, did little to alleviate the frustration and exhaustion felt by the c...

'Text me with your thoughts.' When Paul saw this written on the front of her tee shirt, it brought the first real smile to his face of the day. Seeing a mobile number displayed on the back of it was his kind of humour, too. 'You just made my day,' Paul typed, having no qualms about sending his thanks for cheering him up in a message to the number given. Paul got off the bench he had been sitting on but paused when distrac...

A couple attends a Halloween party filled with drinks and debauchery. Sultry maidens and ghouls dance amongst the pumpkins and headstones. As midnight approaches, proper etiquette is cast aside and inhibitions fade. A “behind the scenes” meeting quickly escalates. He pins her against a wall as carnal instincts take over. Her lacy undergarments are cast aside as coitus is imminent. A brief, but torrid, encounter ensues. Im...