Part 4: Release and relief After they returned to the living room with their cups full, Dr. Winderly sat back in the wingback chair. "I was a first-year grad student and thought I wanted to be an archaeologist. I had a class with Dr. Heidler in Anthro 651 and he was fascinating. I went to his office hours one day and he was working on a paper about sexual p...
Part one. The topping out ceremony The crane swung the five-foot evergreen to the top of the steel building frame. Ten stories from the ground, the ironworkers walked catlike along the girders guiding the tree to the place they had prepared for it. On the ground their coworkers had taken the netting off the fresh spruce and hooked the cables and sling aroun...
I could tell Jessica was a bit nervous as we waited for the doorbell to ring. She kept finding excuses to change her outfit, or check her makeup in the mirror. Truth be told, I was nervous, too. I wasn't sure what to expect from bringing Madison and Jessica together, but I was eager to find out. I went up behind Jessica, who was again checking herself in t...
Meredith had almost gotten used to being stared at. After being ignored and invisible all through grade-school and her two years at college, she finally found herself the center of attention, and all it took was moving to a different continent, a different hemisphere. Of course, it had nothing to do with any sort of beauty on her part--though she was beautif...
Callie raised her head as a hand rapped on her office door. "Come—" she started to say, but Todd Waltrip wasn't waiting for her invitation. He breezed into her office with a broad grin on his tanned face and a twinkle in his mischievous blue eyes. "Well?" he asked as he lowered his trim five-foot-nine frame into a chair in front of her desk and glanced kno...
In Hawai'ian, "ohana" means "family." But they say it means more. It means not only the people you're related to, but the people you most care about, who make up your world. It is supposed to be the most sacred bond there is. I believe it, because for the shortest time, I felt it myself. During World War Two, I was stationed on a cruiser in the Pacific. I a...
Part Two -- The Vision "I'm pregnant," kept drumming in his ears along with the throbbing pressure in his head. Suddenly thrashing and gagging Jack bolted up mumbling "I'm pregnant, I'm pregnant!" Debbie, cradling his head in her lap and toweling the sweat from his brow scolded "You are something else Jack. No, you are not pregnant, just excessively drunk!...
This story is the ninth in a series. Hopefully, it can be read pleasurably as a stand-alone work. The previous installments give some context. This installment starts slowly but, hopefully, gets warm towards the end. ***** Not long after Claire and Rick's bottomless party, Mala got another call from Claire. Mala called Sarah, Carla, and me into a conferenc...
I went to bed after my wife left to go up to the bar. I laid in bed awake for a while thinking about everything she had told me earlier in the evening. It was overwhelming. My brain couldn't process it all. I tried to process it anyway. What do I do with all these newfound facts, emotions, and imagined movies running through my head of her engaged in all s...
Arthur's day was not going especially well. This in spite of the fact that he'd had sex twice and met a girl who was turning out to be rather nice, all things considered. Of course, he'd also 1) been accused of financial malfeasance (by the very girl who was now keen to bestow sexual favors on him); 2) lost his home planet (a quaint carbon-heavy sphere known...