One would think that upon waking up on one's birthday, they would feel joy, elation, or any other number of positive emotions. There would be presents, celebrations, friends, and family. After all, it was finally here, his twentieth birthday. It would be the greatest excess of a young man's life as he came of age. And yet Aleksander felt none of these thing...
Maggie and I stopped having sex a few months before our divorce, and two years later I was still in a dry spell. Yeah, two years and counting. I was told guitars are chick magnets, so I dusted off my old acoustic and sharpened my pencil. I ain't no Bob Dylan, but I was happy to be playing and writing again and I frequented coffeehouses with live entertainmen...
Åsvald the bookswain led a rather dull life. He awoke every day at dawn, at the call of the town crier, ate a breakfast of barley bread with butter, beans, and bacon, and then trudged down the lane, sometimes through rain and snow and hail, to his master's bookshop. There, he would sort books, shelve books, buy books, and sell books. And that was it. All da...
Author's notes: This is a stroll down memory lane to a time when the world as we knew it was undergoing dynamic and radical social change. It was a time fondly remembered for we were young, life was simple, and love was carefree. I share with you recollections of a special woman and what it was like then. The standard discloser of everyone being eighteen-ye...
I woke the next morning to an empty bed, but also the obvious sounds and smells of breakfast being cooked downstairs. I found my clothes and went looking for the kitchen. I found Lilith's daughter standing on a box wearing a long white gown while her mother knelt on the floor adjusting the hem. "I can't believe you're taller than I was at your age," Lilith...
"Bye, dad! And bye little buddy!" Abi gave her dad a hug and kissed the head of her one and a half year old step brother, Stevie, held in her dad's arms. The two guys were leaving to visit with her grandparents for the weekend across state. Abi had a shift to work the next morning so was staying behind with Lynn, her step-mother. Stevie hadn't been sleeping...
Thanks to all who have not only taken the time to read my stories, but have also been so generous with their kind feedback and sharing of their own experiences. I realize that this is 2011, and the subject of women's body hair is not all that popular in this era. Because of current fashion and the successful efforts by businesses to make hair on women "disg...
Larry came to Jill's table and asked, "Jill! God it's great to see you! How are you? How's Dan?" She said, "He's well Larry. I'm OK. My life is OK. It was going along just fine..." then she stopped. He said, "And? You sounded like you were going to say and, or but, or something along those lines. Man, you look great babe!" Jill just looked at him and then...
Five My horizons widen When I returned to my normal state Xentha was by my side. "I thought I'd find you up here, I knocked and Grepp poked his head out, said you were there a minute ago so I guessed you up here." "Hmm, that has made me feel so alive inside." Were my first words, as I stretched my cramped muscles. I felt relaxed and refreshed, the sensa...
Emily again. Well, things just keep getting stranger and stranger. But not, I assure you, in a bad way. You'll see. The rest of the summer went by in a flash. Jeff left for Stanford in mid-August, driving out in plenty of time to get there and set up his living arrangements. The guest bedroom got pretty lonely after that, so I moved back upstairs with Paul...