Meeting on the internet made it very easy to go slowly, to really get to know each other. Living only 50 miles apart made meeting in person possible, but still left them with the option of not seeing each other until they were both ready. Neither wanted to be pushed, they both wanted to be sure this time. They were still using their screen names, and the ano...
A bead of sweat trickled lazily down the back of my neck as the taxi swept me closer and closer to my destination. I was so nervous, my heart pounded in my chest, my stomach had taken up residence in my throat and that butterfly feeling was threatening to invade my entire body. In my head, I'd already conjured up a hundred ways to wriggle out of this situa...
One Tuesday morning, Linda Harris, a thirty-five year old mother of two, entered her kitchen with the intention of making herself some breakfast. Filling up the kettle with water, she placed it on the stove and took out her favourite teacup from beside the counter. It was another sunny morning; from here she had a good view of her suburban backyard, seeing h...
I don't remember which of us had the idea to swap wives during Super Bowl LI. Could have been Moe, could have been me, who knows. Actually, it just sort of popped up during a conversation about something totally unrelated. We were talking about a new line of women's undergarments -- one of the many companies Moe and I own manufactures upscale lingerie -- and...
Amy had enough that day. Roger announced he wanted to break up with her, but the thing is that he was a coward and didn't tell it to her face. Instead, he went around telling everyone else on campus that he was seeing another girl. Amy was furious and confronted her boyfriend. "Don't be such a chicken shit and come tell me that you're fucking around!" She y...
The buffering bar ticks up towards full as the video loads, coming to life once the player has enough data to complete the show without interruption. Staring back through the screen is a very excited looking long haired brunette whose face dominates the capture, her large brown eyes made even larger due to her ellipse lensed glasses. Sporting a smile from ea...
The phone rang, as it sometimes did, at 8:30 on a Monday morning. "Hi Nicki, this is Liz at the agency. Are you available today? One of our clients has been let down and they really need someone with keyboard skills to start at 9:30 this morning. In about an hour." "Um..." My mind was racing. An hour. Shower, dress, coffee. "Where are they based?" "That's...
Emma was left alone for six days in a strange city in a foreign country, away from her parents who were caring for her two children. It was understandable she was miserable about this but she was happy for her husband Paul who'd left excitedly that morning as a member of a five-person party on a charter fishing trip – a catch guaranteed, which Paul had said...
The Total Woman Industries Gulfstream G4 was fueled and prepped, parked at the executive airport, strobe and rotating lights flashing in the dusk. In the approaching limousine, Sheldon reviewed again the confidential document on rare earths ore assays from the Andean high plateau corner of Argentina. His wife Krista was speaking by SATphone with the mining c...
Diane nervously watched the screen as she danced, waiting for her turn. She wasn't sure she really wanted to do this. But it was her birthday, and it was her habit to always give gifts to others on her birthday. Donations to charity, a car to her niece, books and games to the state prison. This would be no different, she told herself. There were needy people...