The Haven was in a panic when Dave arrived home from Fishing. “Donna has gone into labour,” Granny cried as he stepped off the boat. “Matron was working and you were away, so it was left to us to get her over to the ambulance.” “Albert took her over in a net dinghy, the ambulance was waiting at the boat ramp and she’s now in the maternity Hospital.” “If...
I had been watching Traci, my wife of 64 years, looking very pensive over these last few days, more than what was normal for this time of year. It was 5:44 a.m. on a Tuesday morning. She quietly, slowly, took the covers off of her and sat up, trying hard not to disturb me because she didn't know I was awake. She slipped on a bathrobe and slippers, left the b...
I think The Kingston Trio said it first. But then Frank Sinatra said it more eloquently. It was Frank who moved it from the major key to the minor key. Brilliant. 'When I was twenty one, it was a very good year. A very good year for city girls who lived up the stairs.' And, yes, not only did the city girls live up the stairs, but - as Frank observed - the...
The dreams came to him again. October was their time and Halloween was when they culminated. The same dreams with the same voices, but always a different request. "Give us your wife," they said. @@@@@ Evan Connors looked at Daisy and smiled at her frantic attempts to carve the pumpkin into something presentable and not like something stabbed at by a psych...
One lazy Saturday afternoon over two years ago, I was browsing through an old college acquaintance's Facebook page, when I spotted one of his "friends," a woman I knew well when I was in school nearly three decades ago. Though we weren't together for long, I was head-over-heels in love with her. She ended up only spending one year at EDSU, then transferred...
7. Recording —— Harry woke to the sound of his phone alarm. He blinked and yawned, turning the alarm off. A slow, dimpled smile lighting up his face as he saw Charley sprawled out next to him on her stomach, her head resting on her arms, facing away from him. The sheets were at her waist, revealing the beautiful, honey-coloured expanse of her bare back....
"John..." the soft voice murmured, penetrating his subconscious. "Lilyana wants to speak with you..." He opened his eyes and found himself looking up at a dazzling view of the stars, the crystal dome in the Observatory so clear he could have been floating out there in the black. The next realisation was that he was buried under a pile of girls, with his rav...
Weak 1 I had finished the first assignment the temp agency had given me; it was only one day a week, 8.00 'til 2.00, filling in while someone was on a course for a month, but I was going on to the next straight away. It was a start and I had been assured that if I did ok, was punctual and efficient there would be more jobs coming my way. I was standing at...
As usual, the previous chapters should be read before this to fully understand the story line and characters. All comments welcome as it helps to improve the writing. For a few months after Amy gave birth to Colin Pearce's child, we settled down to our lives again. The spark that our sex lives thrived on had to be content with only the memory of the filthy...
Fletcher had a lot on his mind as he curled up in the bed that rested along the wall of the small bedroom sandwiched between the laundry room and the library. He'd been sleeping downstairs for nearly two years; ever since his wife died. He lay there on his side in the half light coming from the kitchen. Beside his end table was a picture he and his wife ha...