I hate April fool's day. It's simply licenced meanness. Granted, my intense dislike for the day springs from any number of high school pranks. I was that boy. That one that was always the good-natured victim of cruel peer pranks. Like the time that Lucy Kennet, my long-time crush asked me out on a date. Corsage and bouquet in place I arrived at the bowling a...
It had been a long flight from Hawaii and she had had to change planes in LAX, but Heidi was finally home and looking forward to getting a good night's rest, sleeping in her own bed for the first time in nearly three weeks. She was waiting for her suitcase by the carousel in baggage claim when her cell phone rang. She couldn't help but wonder who would be...
The Ulleann Pipes are real and the music that comes from these simple reeds and covered or uncovered finger-holes is haunting. Some of the pieces still claw at my soul. Here are YouTube titles, for those that want to hear such music for yourselves: Davy Spillane - Caoineadh Cu Chulainn Uilleann Pipes.flv I am asleep (Air) & The Clumsy Lover (Reel) Uilleann...
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I love Jamie so much it hurts. I mean there's a lot of things that would have people freaking out over this relationship of ours especially how I am and how we started. Jamie loves me despite my past. And like he really, really only has a sort of little picture of just how bad I was as Holt. Only he found reasons why Holt ended up so broken. No, no excu...
Avery slowly walked into the office. The stale air filled her nostrils along with the smell of rubber plants and burnt coffee. The boring, light tan walls gave her nothing, but a few generic motivational pictures to look at. She adjusted her black, tight fitting dress so it wouldn't show her red, lace thong when she sat down. Her feet were sore from her bla...
Divorce Counsel "Well that well and truly sucked." Jessica eased herself into a chair across the desk from her boss, the managing partner of Hale Goodfellow and Wellmet, "Denver's premier family law firm!" and let out a sigh. She slouched and crossed her legs catching her boss checking her out again. Of course, she dressed this way specifically to distract...
I looked at the piece of paper in my hand with annoyance. “Secret Santa” was a custom of long standing at the company I worked for. The rules were simple: a $20 price limit; gifts had to be in good taste; and they were supposed to be sneaked under the Christmas tree in the conference room so nobody could guess who’d given what to whom. Normally I found the...
Vicki was barely making it as an interior decorator, struggling with the hardships of trying to run her own business, and she knew that she was not going to make it, already. That thought really saddened her, because she had risked her savings and her efforts on success in this business. She desperately wanted to prove that she was not the failure of the fam...
Abigail smiled contentedly now she had Rex all to herself in the confines of her personal boudoir; as he knelt cowering, she strutted about the large bedroom which was clinically clean and tidy, and pictures from a bygone era of women in service adorned the walls. Rex was immediately given a feather duster and marshalled about the room, the stern and coldly...