Ms. Pounder

June 19, ****, 11:15 AM - High School... On Thursdays the 15 most 'difficult' boys, I among them, are loaded onto a bus to a facility where we spend the morning reading to children with learning disabilities and engaging them in various other physical activities. I am 13 years old. During the bus drive back …

Screening

June 18, 2021, 9:23 AM... The aged and infirm are the first to be scheduled to vaccination. I have transported an elderly woman to a vaccination centre for her shot. She is sitting in one of the rows of white plastic folding chairs under a white tent in a parking lot waiting to be called. …

Gentle

June 18, 2012, 5:23 PM – University Campus Lab…An art student [PW] needs to attend a class so she leaves her seven year old daughter [A] with me for just over an hour. We play games, watch cartoons [Lumpy Space Princess on Adventure Time], and do experiments with magnifying glasses. When her mother [PW] returns the girl [A] tells …

Waah Gwaan – TAS

14 June, 2008, 11:10 PM - Facebook Message... The first time I saw her [TAS] was at a meeting for one of the clubs in college. Slim, dark smooth skin, large eyes, she speaks with a Jamaican accent. I had to meet her. We became friends. Years later, we connect via Facebook. She is married, …

By Choice

June 15, 2022, 11:02 AM... Out in public I happen upon a former university student I am acquainted with; a young woman [W]... W: "You look fantastic! Have you been lifting weights?!" Jack: "Well, being at home so long during the pandemic I didn’t want to let myself go." W: "You look… good!" Jack: "Are …

Eye-Lashes

June 14, 2018, 3:23 PM - bmobile (Mobile Communications Store), Trincity Mall... After standing in line for quite some time, it is my turn at the counter. Behind the counter, the young woman [W], about the size of a 12 year old and wearing inch-long false eyelashes, types my data into her computer. As she …