This is the second and final installment of this series. It can be read as a standalone story. Enjoy! This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, businesses, places, merchandise, companies, events and incidents are either the products of the author's imagination or used in a fictitious manner. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or actual...
This is my second story although parts of it predate the first. Feedback welcomed. Starts slowly, goes on quite a bit. Prologue - Rachel My mother met my father while they were in college. She was studying English and had always had a religious leaning. He was studying animal husbandry and was from an ultraconservative Christian fringe group. I don't know...
Dear Dr. Carroll, I know this letter will be way too long, but my situation is so confused I'm afraid to leave anything out. If you print this in your column, please feel free to cut all the meaningless babble. I've also enclosed a stamped, self-addressed envelope in case you want to reply directly. But I desperately need your advice. I grew up in San Fran...
Amanda Likes Japanese Girls, Part 4 by Vincent "Look. You made the school newspaper," Amanda showed Hina the sports page as they sat next to each other on a bus heading up I-39. They were going to spend Memorial Day weekend at Amanda's family's dairy farm near Dakota. The headline said, "Cute coed brings luck to Badgers softball team." The full color pictu...
Tina, my strikingly beautiful raven haired wife of four years, came home one evening with an equally stunning blonde of around the same mid-twenties age. "Ray - meet Karen, Karen - meet Ray." As introductions go it was a bit concise even for Tina, who never used two words where one would do. But I'd heard of Karen before, so I was able to relate the name t...
I didn't know who the young lady was but I somehow felt a connection to her once I saw her at the bar. I was sitting in the corner; I had just finished eating lunch when I saw her come in. As soon as I saw her my heart began to beat fast and my eyes couldn't get enough of her. She seemed to be five feet and nine inches, with beautiful red hair and an amazing...
'This place hasn't changed since I was a little girl,' Claire Mooney thought as she took in the unchanged décor of Rossi's Barber Shop. 'It's like stepping back in time.' From the old style barber chairs to the wall mounted photographs of famous patrons, all seemed exactly like they had been on the thirty-two year old's last visit, back when she was all of...
My junior year of college was the first time that I felt that I was in control of my sexual and romantic life. In high school and with the guys I dated early in college, it seemed like I was always following. Changing myself to fit in with what a guy was interested in, making choices that matched up with his vision of me. Even with my first serious boyfriend...
I was in love with her the moment I first laid eyes on her. All it took was her turning to look at me and I was hooked. Even across the crowded dining room, it was as if her honey brown eyes were looking for my fiery brown ones. She sat across from a tall blonde with long legs that wore a skirt that no skank should ever venture out of the house in no matter...
"Paint It Black" "EEEEEK!" Rachel squealed, looking at the gorgeous blonde girl in the bubblegum-pink dress. "Twins!" DeeDee grinned back at her as the two kissed the air just next to each other's cheeks. "I should be so mad at you for wearing the same outfit as the birthday girl," she said, "but you just look so good in that dress! But you know everyone's...