Chapter 1: Elise and Rostand With mounting dread I ascend the stairs to Rostand’s studio. A chill wind rises, swirling about my bare thighs, seeking to conquer the places my lover cannot. What will it be today? What will he demand of me? It will be the same, I fear. It always is. How have I come to this place of dismay I wonder, not for the first time. The...
The big bosses from the oil company did their very best to talk me out of taking the lease on the gas station. The position wasn’t the very best although there was a great deal of passing traffic but I had this dream that I could make a success of the venture. The big bosses continued to tell me about the pitfalls of the station and even talked of closing t...
My 50th birthday had finally arrived. My wife had asked some of my friends around for drinks and the night was going well. I was enjoying myself, feeling pretty relaxed and having some good fun with a lot of friends. Because it was my birthday, some of the more extraverted types made plenty of jokes about my sex drive and my ability to perform now that I was...
Megan starts off her day by going online and checking her email. She yawns and stretches as she waits for her computer to start up. She goes online and sees a message from her online friend from Africa. She smiles and begins to read it. The message says that he will be in the US in a few weeks and would like to meet her. A smile appears on her face because t...
Dave Bishop began his amorous adventures with older women when he met Brenda. He now advertises for others. This story is Dave doing his mature best, but this time in Tahiti. ***** Hello, I’m Dave Bishop. In a recent story I explained about a situation where my friend Ken allowed me to watch him with a beautiful older woman, Brenda, in the office of hi...
SOL 2191 A.D. Ajax hauled two passengers besides the load of “extra-formulated” Serenity tablets that he was paid to carry. The others were along for the ride and to provide company. Transit from Lalande 21185 was a 42 month nap in the icebox: a cold-sleep pod, the easy part. He shivered from the lingering effects at times but his passengers had fared wor...
I For her thirty-fifth birthday Barbara was offered a job. It the best birthday present she could have had. In fact, it was the only one she got. Both her boys had forgotten all about her birthday. 'Oh, well,' she thought, 'that's kids for you.' Her husband hadn't remembered it either until he phoned from his office to wish her a happy day. 'But I don't...
Book Two: Secret Origins Chapter One: Weird Science "You promised, Galatea." "I lied." "You don't lie." "Yes I do! I lie a lot! I lie all the time! I'm lying right now!" "I mean you don't make false promises. You lie about them, but you never break them. There's a difference." "All right, Dee, you win. You can go to that stupid store. But I still thin...
Act Three: There's Always Room Chapter Three: A Way So Familiar "…Welcome to the club," Galatea was saying into the phone over the noise of the blender. Ice and Nyquil cemented into a thick, medicinal green slurry. "Listen, I've been thinking, and maybe you should tell him…" "Thinking!" said the pixie voice over the phone, "Yeah, thinking's good! You go d...
I remember the summer after my first year of college as if it was yesterday. Even though my freshman year at the university had opened my eyes to new and wondrous things, the summer that followed changed my life forever, in more ways than one. I had grown up in a small town in Northeast Iowa, following in the footsteps of many young women before me. I was o...