1. Sliding Sideways


    Date: 8/22/2015, Categories: Fantasy & Sci-Fi, Author: BradleyStoke, Rating: 4, Source: LushStories

    stockinged thigh on display under her short skirt (as most skirts were) and her blouse coquettishly unbuttoned under her smart jacket. Vivienne smiled. She maintained a healthy dental display behind her wide reddened lips. She pulled out another cigarette from her packet and lit it up. “I still can’t believe it’s true!” she said, hardly able at all to disguise a genuine excitement in her voice. “For so long, I thought I was the only one!” “So, where do you live and what do you do?” wondered Quentin. A fairly obvious question really, but he knew the answer wouldn’t be so obvious. “I can never be sure,” Vivienne confessed. “When I woke up this morning I was living in a semi on the other side of town, but whether I still am I don’t know. The number of times I’ve gone home to where I thought I lived only to find that the set of keys I’d got don’t fit in the door! And then when I wake up, I can never be sure where it’ll be, who I’ll have been sleeping with and where I’m supposed to be going to work. I think I work as a project manager for Pineapple Computers, but I didn’t bother going in to work. What use would I be if I did? I don’t know anything about the job I’m doing and I’d be useless at any meetings. So, I just went to see a film, Martin Scorsese’s Lord of the Rings , and mooched about at Sunbucks.” “Same with me,” Quentin replied, wondering whether he’d started the evening with the half-empty packet of Benson & Hedges Gold Leaf he found in his pocket. “I think I’m ...
    recently separated from my wife, who I don’t recognise from the photographs on the mantelpiece, and I’ve no idea whether I’m still working at the brokers I was supposed to be working at yesterday. It’s really stupid going to work. Once I found myself working as a Spanish teacher in Exeter, and I don’t know a word of Spanish. And the number of wives I’ve had!” Vivienne smiled. “Sometimes the husband or lover I wake up with is a real catch,” she admitted. “It’s like I’ve really lucked out. On the other hand, sometimes you can’t believe the disgusting lump of lard I’m saddled with. They really hate it when they start groping me and I tell them to fuck off.” “The best I’ve ever had,” Quentin boasted, “was this model I was married to. She was fantastic. I couldn’t take my hands off her, though I don’t know how much she appreciated my attention. I was some kind of techno musician, though I didn’t know what I was supposed to do with all the technical equipment. And my hair was half-way down my back. I just wished I’d stayed like that for longer. One day I went to sleep in this enormous bed with this gorgeous blonde and woke up the following day a homeless drunkard in Brighton. That was horrible!” “I’ve thought about trying to escape from it all,” Vivienne said. She drew on her cigarette and sipped from her glass of wine. “You know like Bill Murray in Groundhog Day . I got on this plane to Hawaii, fell asleep over the Pacific and woke up in the same bed I’d woken up in Slough. And another ...
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