Chapter 5 It had been a long day and they still haven't gotten to the fun parts yet. The whole day had been spent organizing the teams, mapping the pyramid, and laying out search grid patterns. Professor Connors brain was numb and his body exhausted as they trudged back to base camp. It was only after Professor Connors counted heads around dinner that he r...
A non sexual work of fiction By BigCarl Edited By DeepBlueC I can clearly remember the day my daughter came to live with me. It seems like it was only yesterday. When I got the call from Child Protective Custody Services' and I was told to report to there main office immediately or there would be serious consequences, for me if I didn't. I figured they we...
For the record, I never asked to be born in the Fitzgerald family. Back in the 19th Century, my great-great grandfather was a cattle rancher who had started a modest meat business that turned into an empire that made my family filthy rich. On the outside, my family was made up of successful, wealthy socialites, politicians, and doctors that gave generous do...
It was Labor Day weekend, and for Diana and Jesse it was a "unicorn weekend", when neither of them had their kids. Jesse had travelled down to Harlingen to see Diana. Work had picked up in pace, and while the hours, and accompanying bonus, was good, they both needed some time to relax. He arrived just before 10 p.m. on Friday, having worked a 60-hour week, a...
I doubt riding to the hospital to have an unexpected birth is usually a calm cruise, but my experience was probably setting the bar pretty damn high. Amber was next to me chain-smoking and trying to shoot up one more time before being admitted, things most mothers-to-be would be prioritizing less than dealing with contractions and a baby that wanted out. Now...
Friends with benefits is kind of a cool, detached term. When we talk about friends with benefits we're thinking of "Sex in the City" with hip and beautiful career women in a trendy and slick metropolis who don't need men for anything but sex. They're self contained and self absorbed and they need each other more than they'll ever need any man. Their friends...
This is not going to sound like a true story. But I promise you, PROMISE YOU, it is. I don't remember what day of the week it was... but I had talked to my best friend that morning on the phone. It was the end of my sophomore year of college, and she had been my best friend since we were 13 years old. We'd been through as many trials and tribulations as on...
For thirty years now the world had been without any births of male children. Females proliferated. The Y chromosome had become obsolete. Karen and Sylvia had been partners for eighteen years and were reasonably happy together. But about once a month Sylvia, with Karen's somewhat reluctant agreement, went to stay with one of the older remaining men. Adam Wai...
Saturday morning, Ryan Walcott was going sea fishing with George and his mates. George had a boat on the coast and they all took off once a year for a weekend of fishing. At least his intention was to go fishing. He had driven about 4 miles and was at a standstill. He was stuck at the back of a queue of traffic that stretched off into the distance. He could...
Every marriage, even the best of them, hits a make or break point, traditionally around the 7 year mark. You know, where one or both partners start to wonder if they'd made the right decision, and whether they might have been better off married to someone else. I wasn't one to break with that tradition, even though my marriage is far from traditional. You se...