When I was eighteen, I got pregnant by a man who was in the Air Force and six years older than I was and I had known for only a month. Without telling my parents I was pregnant, I left home and he and I got married, again without telling my parents. Two w...
Friday was a lazy day, and Jim decided we should go to the bar for dinner and drinks, even though it wasn't our usual night. We sat at the table by the dance floor, even though there was no band that night, just a jukebox. As I looked around, I noticed a...
For so many nights, our contact has been limited to the words we've sent each other through our phones. A photo or two may have snuck their way in, hoping it will cause one of the good kinds of sleepless nights. With time, curiosity grows. I want to know...
When Valerie got to work on Monday, she was still all aglow. Her best friend, Crystal, met her in the lunchroom. Valerie was putting her lunch in the refrigerator and her left hand was on top of the door holding it. “Well, how much longer are you going to...
I wake up, and something is wrong. I'm on the wrong side of the bed. I sit up and see the dent in the other pillow, the covers pulled up. Ian. Holy mother of god, I remember all of Ian, and he is not in the bed. I listen, but everything is silent. I am al...
Some jobs take me to upscale neighborhoods and homes of wealthy folks, usually on a referral basis. On occasion I am asked to do something out of my normal activities, such as work on their cottage or summer home. I usually decline, due to time limitation...
Sam “Fuck, I want you so much,” Adam, my Saturday night guy, groaned into my ear as he slid his fingers into me in the back seat of the Uber. We were on our way to my apartment from the bar where we’d just met. “I can’t wait to feel your wet cunt wrapped...
I first met Naomi at a car show two summers ago. She and her husband, Ken, parked their 1972 Barracuda next to my Chevelle at the first show of the season. It was a beautiful car, lovingly restored, and we spent a good part of the day discussing our resto...
"Cheryl rang me up, she and Clive are having a barbeque tomorrow and asked us if you want to go, I said yes, we will go won't we?" Linda Sharkey asked her husband Colin, when he got home from work on Friday evening. Cheryl and Clive Micklewhite were a cou...
