I couldn't believe that I was back in Millington. So much had changed. The last time I was here, the streets were lined with Marines and young Sailors, headed to bars like the Brass Rail, but now, the streets were quiet, most of the bars and tattoo parlors had closed. I couldn't believe it was a Friday night and the streets we so quiet. As we made our way to...
When I started working as a telemarketer for Wooleyhan Marketing, I had no idea that this little shit job would wind up changing my whole life. After a few months of proving myself to be a great bullshitter, I was promoted to a Project Manager position. However, the promotion (which really just amounted to going from Dirtling to Chief Dirtling) in and of its...
The next time I saw either of them was at our college reunion, four years later, when we were all around 27 years old. We had gone to a small college in Ohio, and while we were enjoying the nostalgia, the reunion activities were not all that exciting. I was hanging out with some friends, shooting the shit, and eventually I ended up in a group that included b...
James held tight to Lisa as he led her through the darkened club, skirting tables and half-dressed waitresses as they made their way to the back, to where a tall, striking blonde sat waiting in a corner booth. They made a striking pair together, and others noticed them as they walked by. James was tall, a slender athletic build. A handsome older man with his...
My first lover was my Uncle Nigel. He wasn't really my uncle, he was actually a partner at my mother's law firm. At the time, Mother was an Associate in the firm and Uncle Nigel was a partner. It was one of the older, more prestigious firms in Chicago. I was barely eighteen at the time, a senior at the parochial school a couple blocks from the firm. I would...
Sally Sally Czarwitz, pronounced like "chair witch", a name that brought her unwanted nicknames, was tall with a body the shape of a wooden plank. Her long, thin face and matching long, thin, hooked nose encouraged the comments based on her name. When she attempted to do something with her long thin, mousy brown hair it refused to stay where she put it, pre...
Jay slumped into the vacuum of his bed the minute he was through the door. His substantial, dimly-lit bedroom was in this moment gently buzzing with the latest trending music. No one heard the audibly drawn sigh that issued from him as he relived the day's events; what had his life come to? Repetitive technical work, ineffective leadership, emotionally unint...
I've noticed that not everyone is too happy with the way Nens has turned out to be/is turning out to be, and I can understand why one would feel that way. But let's not forget, everyone can't be the strong heroine Annette is in Silver Eyes. Life's like that, some people are fearless and some aren't. Especially in the situation that I've put Nens in. I wish I...
Last month, at the party, the Year's Last Virgin had failed in his attempts to have sex with Carol. Could an encounter with a haunted TV from the Twilight Zone alter history...? Electro rhythms pulse up through the floor. They vibrate the bed softly. And the crumpled duvet and mound of coats that rock in warm drunken waves of darkness. And Carol. Mounting h...
I'll never know why I did it, Was I truly that unhappy with my life and marriage? Was I just bored out of my mind, sex seemed to be the only thing on my mind the last few years. And my husband could care less about it anymore. We did make love, but I got no satisfaction from it. I hardly ever had an Orgasm, and he always had his. Either I would give him head...