Back when I was in high school, I held quite a few jobs. One of my most enjoyable was baby-sitting this kid who lived across the way from me. His name was Brandon, and when I first started watching him he was eight or nine. He had three older siblings, the youngest of whom, Theresa, was only a year ahead of me in school. Sometimes I'd spend entire Saturdays...
Anne: Life is hard for a single mother but it gets harder when you have a daughter who is seventeen and dating, especially when you are not. I stopped dating when Kristy's father left me ten years ago. Most people who know me think I am a prude or gay because I never date. How little do they know me! I am very heterosexual and I have all of the urges that an...
Once again, thank you to Blackwing for fixing all the spelling errors and whatnot, your work and advice is priceless. This is the first in an anthology series of stories I'm going to do, although this is actually part six in the series, revolving around the Castle TV show and many of its characters. As the title suggests, this will be focusing on the swing...
It had become routine for her, a chore in fact. Each day, from ten in the morning until noon, she lay on the lounger beside the cyan pool, turning every half hour as if she were an exquisite piece of meat to be evenly cooked to perfection. She and Lawrence did not live in a particularly hot area - indeed, were it not for the nearly total lack of rainfall,...
Jane rolled over on to her side and sighed restlessly. God it was hot! Even at two in the morning it was almost stifling in her hotel room. She had been trying to sleep since just after 11pm and hadn't yet managed a wink. With this the last night of her vacation and the prospect of a long, tedious flight back to London tomorrow afternoon -- no, this afternoo...
This is the first part of a longer story. Tim and Judy had invited us to stay with them in their rented house in Majorca. When we arrived, we were surprised how nice everything was - a small isolated stone bungalow with a private swimming pool, two bedrooms and the whole property surrounded by high walls that guaranteed privacy. Since it was hot and sunny,...
Later that evening when we got back from our meal in the nearby village we were all slightly under the influence of a couple nice bottles of wine and very relaxed and John opened one of the bottles we had brought back. "Ok, what were you two guys whispering about in the restaurant?" Joan said smiling as she took her glass from John. "Nothing really" he r...
"I know how much you hate the bus," Anne sighed. She nestled under the warm covers of her queen-sized bed, allowing the soft hum of the air-conditioning unit to lull her to into a peaceful state. Connected to her calm friend- two hundred miles away via a fiber optic network- an anxious Ellie groaned and climbed onto the familiar bus, small backpack in tow....
Mark and I first met in elementary school and we've been pretty much friends for fifty years since then. Over that time we've often had conversations like the following: Mark: "Man I am so jealous of you." Me: "Oh boy we go, what now?" Mark: "Well for starters your rugged good looks, even as we close in on sixty, women still fall all over you." Me: "Mark...
"I want to see a pornographic movie, Peter. Will you take me to one?" I'd met JB through her friend Alice, who in turn came into my life at breakfast one morning with my roommate Jeff. They attended the Institute of Fine Arts where he was cutting a wide swath, partly because he was one of the few heterosexual males there but mostly because he was attractive...