They sat on opposite sides of the couch in silence, neither saying a word to each other. A magazine sat open on her lap, and as she flipped through the pages she could feel his frustration rising. "I hate you so much," Ben said suddenly, staring straight ahead. Julia didn't even look up from her reading at her boyfriend's outburst. She had gotten used to th...
I don't know when I first thought about actually doing it; about selling myself as a slave. The world has gone into a depression worse than in the 'Dirty Thirties' of the last century. I have been out of work for months and I am close to losing my room in the dingy boarding house run by a tyrant of a woman when I saw the first ad on the TV in the common ro...
CHAPTER 1 Close-cropped blond Gene Gunter rode on a bus into the city, travel-weary and half-amused that despite decades of big funded campaigns to get the city renamed more conservatively they continued to fail because some citizens, possibly a very large number, were rather pleased to be living in the oddest-named city in the county... Rangoon Falls. He...
By Buddy B Blake Chapter 1 Medical group practice principal receptionist, Willow Collins, arriving home, kicked off her shoes and changed into home clothes and freshened up before making coffee and pouring fruit juice. She carried the two drinks to the lounge where her daughter would be watching something on TV. Willow and husband’s two sons had long fl...
CHAPTER 1 At thirty-eight Mike Jones had the slumped shoulders of a loser, and for good reason. He'd lost his wife, lost his executive job and had escaped bankruptcy by a whisker and had now slunk home to live with his parents, those events occurring in that order. The job market was tight but he's found a position, at sixty percent of his former salary,...
CHAPTER 1 There was speculation that the recently arrived young graduate from Chicago, Sinead Morgan, would take this year's title of Miss Prairie but she wasn't even in the final seven. A fairly strict upbringing had taught Sinead and her sister and two brothers that a guy sins if he pays for sex and likewise so does a girl if she gives sex in return for a...
Brianna and I grew up together. Our mothers are best friends, and they live right next door to each other. My mom, Gloria, and her mom, Ann, got pregnant at the same time, and Bri and I were born a week apart. We're both only children; neither of us have any brothers or sisters. We both had our eighteenth birthdays last month, and we're finishing our senior...
Every time I have sex with Kate, my sister-in-law, I swear that it is the last time. It's not that I don't love having sex with my wife's sister. It's just that I'm done with cheating on my wife and especially with cheating on her with her sister. It's wrong. It's over. I'm finished. No more, I can't do this. Enough is enough. I'm despicable and I hate mysel...
We watched our friends grow up togetherAnd we watched them as they fell.Some of them fell into Heaven.Some of them fell into Hell. -The Pogues "A Rainy Night in Soho" "Let's go ouuuu-wwoooooooo—out tonight!!" I'm dead. "Oh, take me ouuuu-wwoooooooow—out tonight!!" I am dead and I am in Hell and I'm being tortured for my "sinful" ways. I can hear mom say...
The guys were all gathered in Leonard and Sheldon's apartment playing Warlords of Ka'a when there was a knock on the door and Penny and Zack walked in. Penny was holding a rolled up magazine in her hand. "Hey, your copy of Science magazine was in my mailbox." She passed it to Zack, who was now sitting on the couch next to Leonard, expecting Zack to pass it...