Journal

Chapter 1

The clash of the sex titans

“I’m the best stud in the world; the best there will ever be in the world of women adventure, Boasted 21-year-old social worker, John, to his friends Gath, Simon, Humphrey, McCarthy and Justice at The ‘10’ Nite Club, Bronx with a bottle of Vodka each. He continued: ‘Y’all know that I have slept with Tricia, Trish, Victoria, Kelly, Michelle, Tania, Madonna, Mary, Laura, Grace and Sabina within the space of two months. I am still counting…but I look forward...

Short Story Collection

Situations’

Stories

(Stories of sex education, relationships, marriages and gender imbalance)

As Written By:

Mr Ben

Situations’ Stories mirrors ordeals of people in relationships with their spouses, parents to their children (vice versa), the fascinating perspective of sex education and gender disparity. It depicts the real-life experiences in the form of stories what happens to people, especially young and older adults in the areas of coping with...

“WAKE UP DREAM BOY!”

Characters

TOM: (MALE, 18. Lead Character, Caucasian, tall, stubborn, sociable, attention seeker)

ANNOUNCER: (MALE, LATE 30S. Baritone voice)

MS FRANCES: (FEMALE, EARLY 40S TV Anchor, fashion conscious, brunette, screen-friendly face)

DAN DUNNE: (MALE, ABOUT 50,. Celebrity, tall, Caucasian, athletic body, confident)

ALISHA (FEMALE, 16. Classmate, dark in complexion , short in height, cute, round face but strict)

JANE (FEMALE, 15, classmate, ebony average in height, average...

Title: SITUATIONS’ STORIES (Anthology scripts)

By

Mr. Ben

mrbenisreal@googlemail.com

Characters/Descriptions

STAN: (MALE, 18,lead. Curious, cute, tall)

MICHAEL: (MALE, 21. Elder brother. Mature, average in height, built in size)

FADE IN:

int. BED room — day

STAN, 18, and MICHAEL, 21, are watching television. Stan appears moody as he sits on the sofa.

SUPER: “Come to Think of It, Sex!”

MICHAEL

Stan, it’s been over ten minutes you came home and you’re not the jovial Stan I am used to. Tell me, bro, what...

The Writer’s Relief

Goodday ladies and gentlemen, it is a great honour to have distinguished writers of the National Association of Australian Book Writers seated to observe its first quarter meeting for the year 2012. Drawn from all works of the literary industry and seated in our midst are publishes, editors, literary agents and other concerned professionals. I want to use this medium to express my heartfelt gratitude to you all. You have made me glad, indeed!

Without much ado, I would like...

See Life in Your Own Way!

On the News At Ten,

Seven Miners Die in South Africa’s Major Mine Fields
Politicians meet on the way forward for South Africa
Mandela’s Health Condition Worsens
War in Rwanda as Four Hundred People Were Feared Dead
To Some Entertainment News: Lady gaga goes Nude Again at the Madison Square Garden in Newyork
Super Model, Naomi Campbell, fractured her collar bone in a car crash that killed seven people in Dublin, Ireland.
Channel O Music awards stirs controversies amongst...

The Order of the Day

“Class, as you can see on the board, the topic of discussion is ‘Politics and The Media’. Before going into the field of lecturing, I have been a political commentator for many national dailies in the country. I have worked as a political correspondent for National Television Network, Bahamas and many TV stations in Cayman Islands. I have also worked as part of the advisory team for President James Jackson.
In all my years of politicking in and out of the class room, I...

Dad Loves Me
“Do you know that your son has bullied mercilessly and beaten a lot of pupils in this school, especially those in his class? Just the other day, a parent came to me insisting that Jack injured her at the right leg! It took the grace of all members of staff to seriously address this issue. This is the very reason I invited you here. Of course, you know this is not your first time of coming to hear issues like this about your son. But I want you to please teach your son good...

What A life!

At senior grade, Dale became a huge follower of Von’s teachings who was his late fathers’ friend and a philosopher of repute. Dale had been a hardworking young man since the age of six; he took after his father the character. In the school’s library, he was about picking up a history book for perusal when he stumbled on the words of his role-model on his reading table: ‘three kind and great words I have for the youths: work, work, work’. This would inspire to be a workaholic all...

My Only Girl Friend

July 12, 1990 was a memorable period for Benjamin who marked his 6th birthday. Celebrated amongst friends, family members and well-wishers, Benjamin was really on the top of the world as the birthday celebration took center stage in school. Dressed in a ‘cloth of many colours’ outfit, he took a pose with all his classmates. To him, even to this day, as seen in the picture taken on his birthday, he was flanked by his two truly best friends; John and Lesley. In the course of...

Religion by Choice

Lennon’s ancestry is synonymous with the identification of various religions. Though his family history has a vague account of the various religious practices before the existence of his Great-Grand father, Lennon’s grandfather, a core Buddhist, prior to his death told him that his fore-fathers incorporated various religions. According to him, it was due to the inter-racial marriages that existed. Lennon’s father,

Grandfather and Great grandfather were all a combination of...

Between the Devil and Deep Blue Sea

Charles grew up in the village. His parents, though very poor and stark-illiterate, vowed to send their son to the School of Seminarian studies to become a priest. Through savings, they spent their money to sponsor the education of Charles. At the time, Charles was just done with his elementary studies. In a forthnight, Charles would be on his way to the Seminary school in the city. His uncle, John Bosco, was responsible for the admission into the school.

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A World of Wickedness

Franklin knew he was born into a world of wickedness. His father was killed by men of the underworld and his mother, Catherine, raped. This led to his advent to Mother earth. On a very sad note, Franklin was brought into the world with his mother hating and cursing the day she brought to this world a child whose past has a conspicuous negative definition. Franklin saw the world all through his childhood years in the light of wickedness. This mentality continually hunted...

The Druglord

Alvarez, a smart and very ambitious young man, had worked diligently for the drug cartel, MAFIA, since his youth. Determined that he will, through his two-year-old son, Carlos, run the cartel, he went the extra-mile to see that his obstructions-men higher than he was in the ladder of the cartel’s hierarchy were ‘uprooted’ to make way for his son to become the figure-head in order to carry out his agenda. From the peak of his infanthood to his typical youngster years, Alvarez...

Little Beginnings

Martins and Gloria were low income earners whose source of livelihood heavily depended on petty trading. With a built house and a life-saving scheme, they were both head-bent to ensuring that their two sons get the best of quality training from infancy to adulthood, as a couple. Martins and Gloria grew together as childhood friends. Sadly, they were watched closely by the eyes of poverty throughout their growing years. To make matters worse, their parents died at their prime...

The Community Fighters

Three centuries ago, Queensland was a hub of all commercial activities. As the name suggests, it was a female-populated inhabitation. At the time, a particular census was carried out. It was discovered that for every existing male, there were at least twenty female living in the same community. It was a place to stay and every activity was a profitable venture. At Queensland, there were lots to showcase.

Geographically situated along the coast of Miranda, It trading...

Crazy in Love
Stanley, 34, had, on a number of occasions, dated women in the past fifteen years. As a matter of fact, he had dated several women but took cognizance of the ordeals with eleven ladies in the last ten years. He made up his mind to walk down the aisle with the twelfth woman. Written in his diary of Women I Dated, Stanley’s stories were well spelt out. Alas, he’s dating women came as a result of the ‘crazy love’ he had for women, since his young teenage years, although there was a...

The Love of Money

‘The love of money, the Bible warns, ‘is the root of all evils’, an early-morning ministration by Craig to his family before setting out for the affairs of the day. Soon after the morning devotion was completed, the family was ready to go; Craig was well-dressed to meet pressing needs at his work place, his children wore school-mode clothes and best of corporate feminine outfit best described his wife’s dressing –prepared to face the uphill tasks to be encountered at the...

The Learning Authoress

This story unveils the literary learning of Alice, an aspiring Greco-Romanian American authoress, based in California, USA. For the past six years, she had been through a lot of setbacks at the hands of publishers and literary agencies in almost every part of the world. With a depth of determination, Alice, despite incessant rejections by these literary professionals, had acquired of great wealth experience as regards writing and publishing via continuous learning.

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The Ugly Decision

“Mom, Dad, I see that you are always holding each other’s hands together and saying I love you to each other. I’d never see you, Dad, quarrel with Mom. I want to know”, a question asked by the five-year-old David.

“Your mom and I, right from our growing years, had known each other and we grew up loving each other. It has always been like this since we were young”, Sam, his twenty-eight-year-old father, replied.

“When I’m grown, I’d want to be like you. I don’t want to be like...