This is the third of six chapters. Marva and her buddy learn about each other, and a new man enters her life. This is a long story, broken down into six chapters. If you would like to read the previous chapters, click on my ID above. Enjoy, 2Xwidderwoman * For perhaps the first time in his life, Charles awakens on his back, with a woman between his thigh...
'I said to my soul, be still, and wait without hope For hope would be hope for the wrong thing; wait without love For love would be love of the wrong thing; there is yet faith But the faith and the love and the hope are all in the waiting.' T S Eliot, 'Four Quartets - East Coker' Dorothy's feet throbbed after 7 hours standing at the checkout. Another ho...
I love my wife. I really do. So please read this with a grain of salt. My name is Gary, Gary Markus Jenning. My beautiful wife Marsha is an archeologist and makes a lot of money. It allows me to do what I want. I don't want to be a free loader, so I do work as a waiter a couple nights a week at a really nice restaurant. But mostly I play golf and take care...
We're nearing the end of this one. One more chapter after this one will conclude their story. Luckily that isn't the end yet. Special thanks to JazC and The Guild for their continuous feedback and support and Asylumseeker for his final editing skills. I won't let you wait too long and leave you all to the reading part. Enjoy!! Chapter Twelve : Rebuilding a...
Author's note: All characters and companies mentioned in this story have no existence outside the imagination of the author, and have no relation whatsoever to anyone or anything bearing the same name or names. Events portrayed in this story are pure invention and have not been based on any events that have happen in real life. All the characters involved in...
Chapter 8 - The Rescue When Liz woke up she glanced at the clock and noticed it was late. She stretched and yawned and then found Fantine curled up against her. She brushed her hair aside, kissed her forehead and then studied Fantine's sweet, peaceful face. It had been so long since Liz had ever felt anything like what brewed inside her now. She wondered ho...
Hope you enjoy this latest chapter. This one was easier to write, because I've been thinking about these sections for a while. Just wasn't exactly sure where to fit some of these pieces in. I've had one section rattling around in my head for weeks. And yes, before you gnash teeth, I'm already working on the next chapter! My dear lovely partner is frothing fo...
The events that forever altered my marriage to Kim, my wife of 15 years, started a few weeks ago, but it wasn't until this morning that I started to put the pieces together and I realized things between us were about to change. Kim and I met in college. She was 18 and I was 23. We married four years later after a dating exclusively. I was on a business trip...
CHAPTER 1 Dodge Blueitt was independent and tended to ignore instructions to perform low-priority work. Beef rancher Sloan Silver would have fired him years ago except Dodge was the best worker he'd ever had. The cheerful drifter had appeared eleven years back in rain asking for a meal and enough gas for his jalopy to get to the nearest town. Sloan's new w...
Some days you can't win no matter what you do or say. On those days you wish you had pulled the bedsheets over your head and stayed there. Being the head of the house according to your better half comes with certain responsibilities that at times you wished you never had. Mine started the moment the police department woke me up at seven am Saturday morning...