Jackhammered

Elisa’s birthday was coming up. That meant her husband Tim had to get her a special gift. But Elisa was a grown woman, not a little girl anymore. She was in her mid-thirties and her husband Tim was about forty years old. They’d been married for about a decade now…

Being married to Nate was hard. He used to be a cool guy but after 10 years of marriage, he seemed to have lost his desire for life after losing a huge sum of money on some investments. He began drinking and developed temper tantrums. Jenny (his wife) asked him…

Betty and Marc were married for almost two years. They were living in a beautiful cottage and considered themselves the happiest couple in the neighborhood. The cottage belonged to Betty’s mother. There were not too many people around since it was on the hill and they loved it. Each Saturday…

Jake started working at this mid-sized company when he was just out of college. It was a family-owned accountancy firm that had been around for over three decades and had a great reputation. Since then Jake got married to his lovely wife Tina and they had two little kids. Jake…

Jason didn’t go to the bank that often. He did most stuff online but had to do some stuff in person. So, he took time out of his day off and went in not thinking that he would have the opportunity to cheat on his girlfriend. At least he didn’t…

It was a cool summer evening. Officer Ricky sat in his vehicle on the interstate turnpike. He watched the road ahead of him as he looked for speeders. It had been a long boring Tuesday night. …

Brett was a brilliant software engineer working for a large tech company in San Francisco and earned a great income. But he was a nerd. For the last five years, he’d been married to a beautiful young lady called Emily. Brett and Emily had met while still in high school…

It was the cheapest gym in town. It was on the west side of a mid-sized southern city where the real estate was still cheap. The gym was in a run-down slot in a ramshackle strip mall that had seen its better days in the ’60s. …