It is the praiseworthy custom of authors on this site, when presenting to the public a literary endeavour which depends on a previous work, to direct the reader to that first writing. This humble offering cannot be understood without some knowledge of Miss Jane Austen's classic novel, Pride & Prejudice. If you have not read that novel, why are you wasting...
Cascading Errors The mass of summonses was because there were a lot of people pissed at me. Most underwriters spread the risk around. So we had one primary underwriter, and 7 others who were also selling shares, including, I'm proud to say, Goldman Sachs. I have to admit to a certain pride at being sued by an institution of that level of prestige. It made m...
Everybody has a self-image. Most people have a positive self-image and believe that they're good people; a few others revel in being assholes. Many people with good self-images deserve them; others merely delude themselves. Like the majority of the population I have always had a good self-image. I polished it as an adult by giving away time and money for wo...
I couldn't have heard that right, of course. Another guy in a game of cards with me, wanted to raise the stakes in a way that I had never even considered. Nor did I really think about it in advance, but the man was a gambling addict. Robert Cullen, sharp as a tack Wall Street stockbroker and relative newlywed, had just offered me his pretty wife Lindsay as c...
The Truth of Tenderness The dazzling colors of autumn faded into gray November. The last of the leafpeepers had gone home, the summer houses sat empty and the businesses that made their money from the tourist trade were closed up for the winter. Alvin had pulled the last boat from the water, taken in and stored the platform floats and closed the wharf. The...
Meg was prodded and led through the dark for quite a while. She wished someone would light a torch. She could feel the cave had become much larger. She was able to stand up and the ceiling and walls were beyond her touch. She found this disconcerting. The touch of the ceiling and walls had been reassuring. She now had no sense of direction and was completely...
Mark and I grew up in a small tightly knit religious community. Our families were neighbours who regularly attended the same church, sent their kids to the same school and spent much of their time in each other's company. The result was that Mark and I were kind of thrown together, but that was fine. We liked each other from the start and always had similar...
If you are reading this from the location of my publishing you would know this is a wife sharing/cuckolding story. If you're not into stories with this kind of content please politely move on as this isn't for you. If you're the type of psycho that just likes to write ignorant comments without an explanation or helpful advice: get fucked idiot!! For the rest...
Despite having less income than others in town, the residents of Fairweather Park were a close-knit group, almost like family. On the day Trixie-Lynn Amber turned 18, they threw the biggest party anyone in Fairweather had seen in a while. 'A while' as in last week, when Hope Kane had her eighteenth birthday party. We'll get to that when the detail is releva...
I was out West to attend an annual conference and my fiancée, Susan, and I decided to take a week for ourselves and just drive around and stop when we felt like it. Well, we stopped after only three hours driving one day, checked into a hotel suite and walked across the street to a steak house for lunch. Susan is pretty with blonde hair past her shoulders....