"Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house" Linda was arranging a few low-hanging decorations. "Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse" They were askew, probably after having been pushed aside by curious kids checking out the presents under the tree. "The stockings were hung by the chimney with care" She had just rescued a rich...
About the time our youngest let for State College, our lives improved considerably. My business allowed me to take Wednesdays off, Mary quit most of her community projects, and we finally had some time together. A candlelight dinner led to a reawakening of sexual activity that had laid dormant for almost 20 years. Instead of the hurried, quiet sex in the da...
Jerry Monroe is your typical single mid-thirties guy. He drives a four-door sedan and lives by himself in his one bedroom apartment. It is decorated circa 1990 and he likes it that way. He has worked at Johnson Technologies since he graduated from college 14 years ago. Sarah Blaine is a sexually repressed twenty-eight year old woman. She always dresses in a...
Janice Owens, romance novels editor for Pink Beach Publications, pulled her little blue Toyota Corolla to a stop half a block away from the house of a man she had never met, a man she knew only by his words. She told herself she only needed a glimpse of him. She was no stalker. One glimpse, and then she would go back home. She would leave this fancy Coral Ga...
Prologue - The crime. Nick and Don were both at university studying medicine. They spent all their free time together. Like all young men, their bodies and minds were awash with testosterone, and they were obsessed with sex. Every week they went out hunting, prowling the clubs and streets for victims. Many times they had caught a woman and taken turns to pe...
When they arrived back at the lodge, it was already dark. The sun's afterglow rent a streak across the horizon, illuminating the undersides of clouds and silhouetting the mountains in brushstrokes of blood red, autumn orange, copper and gold. They put their cross-country skis in the rack outside the inn's door. The soft glow from the lantern lights illuminat...
Sabrina stared in the mirror, carefully analyzing the color of her lipstick. She usually wore red, but tonight, she wanted a little bit of a different kind of pop. The fuchsia she'd chosen stood out starkly against her pale skin, making her dark brown eyes look even larger and darker. Glossing on one more layer of the thick lip pencil, she smacked her lips t...
Neither one would have guessed that they had so much in common! Both had been married for quite some time, better than 20 years each. Both were far younger looking than their middle age drivers' licenses revealed. Both were in the throes of the quiet, lonely sadness that follows the realization that the sparkle was gone from their respective relationships....
*** Note: This is the fourth installment of a story originally submitted for the Winter Holidays 2012 contest. This one is longer than the previous installments because there's more about the relationship as Wendy struggles with her new adventurousness. There will be one more installment. I hope you like it, but whether you do or not, please take a minute to...
I've been working at Paul's Plumbing & Remodeling for just about a year, now. Paul Cenowski is the largest employer in my little town east of the river. He is the owner, the president, and the CEO all wrapped in one. And, me, you ask? I am his secretary; his personal assistant, his network administrator, his travel agent, his go fer, his coffee maker, and hi...