Author's note: Please join Brian and Marigold on their fine adventure in many parts. This one begins on historic Route 66 in the California desert. ***** Chapter 1 - A Random Encounter I was wandering old Route 66 and stopped at an antique diner after a long day spent among the cactus in Anza Borrego park. The plastic badge on her ample chest said 'Milli...
Thank you for reading. I wrote this one using multiple POV's. I thought it worked better than using a narrator. Let me know your thoughts. ******** Alan I woke up with a hangover and it was horrible. The headache, the stomach ache, the knee ache. Wait, Why did my knee hurt? The previous night was my 21st birthday and my dad took me, my mom, and my two ol...
To the reader: This is chapter one of a three part story. I tried to write each chapter so they're stand-alone stories but reading them in order would be best. I've decided to post chapter one and wait to see the comments before doing anything else. If the comments are bad I won't bother to post the other two chapters. If they're okay then the next chapte...
Total Woman Academy graduates were ubiquitous in international commerce, national governments and advanced research institutions. The organization had placed graduates with countless organizations controlled by their extensive network of the world's elite. The peak recruiting seasons were spring-time, when TWA senior coeds graduated into the broader world, a...
Note from Slickman: Please read chapters one and two to get up to speed with these two couples. Two couples who were the best of friends go on a cruise with all of them hoping to swap but they found out that swapping gets really complicated. Things get a lot worse before getting better. Enjoy....all rights reserved. * The weather continued to get worse an...
A couple of weeks had passed since the premiere, the show would be live a week from Sunday and the excitement level began to grow. Mark and Maiara's wedding would take place on the same day. This weekend Mark, I and two other friends from college were headed down to Vegas for the bachelor party. I had rented an SUV for the trip down as we decided to drive. I...
It was just another lunch time, or so I thought. Lunch usually consisted of munching on a sandwich while I dealt some black jack for fun. I suppose an explanation is in order before I continue. The shop has lunch nearly an hour before the office and engineering staff, so we pretty much have the break room to ourselves, we, being the engineers, administrative...
She is probably my closest friend. I have known Lynn for almost two decades now. We had the same circle of friends in college and would often call each other as fallback dates, strictly platonic of course. The two of us spent a lot of time together in those years. In fact, acquaintances often mistook us for a couple. All through school, I fielded the stateme...
First, my thanks to Todd172 for giving me the original idea and his advice as I went along, and Crkcppr for beta reading. What can I say about blackrandl1958? Besides blessing us all with her wonderful stories, she became my dear friend, even after my first comment was ripping one of her characters, inspiring me to write (I'm sure some of you wish she didn't...
This was my first attempt at writing a story about a cheating wife and though some people liked the premises of the story , many more found the end unsatisfying. So I rewrote some of the story, the bulk of the which remains the same though I did correct a few errors. I added quite a bit to the ending and hope you enjoy it. Again any and all comments are welc...