So, the doctor walks into the room of his patient and tells him, "Mr. Johnson, I've reviewed your chart and I have some good news and some bad news for you." Mr. Johnson replies to the doc, "I can take the bad news, Doc, give it to me first." The doctor looks at him gravely and says, "Your prognosis has taken a significant turn for the worst and we now g...
Paul Cutter mostly hated his job. He worked as a gym teacher and coach for St. Thomas College - an small private college outside Chicago filled with the children of the elite. Spoiled brats, he grumbled to himself as he laid cone after cone along the painted lines on the shiny floor. He somewhat enjoyed training the track and swim teams for the school; th...
Thank God I had my notebook with me. I felt like this plane trip would never end. Got booted from coach because some creep needed the extra room for his rolls of disgusting fat. Not that I was complaining, I really hadn't wanted to spend the next 11 hours of the 12 hour flight sitting next to him anyway. But at least back there I could watch the people. Up...
The sun was just beginning to rise on this clear summer day. I had planned an overnight camping trip to mountains with my family, but at the last minute, my wife couldn't go due to an emergency at work. My daughter still wanted to go, and asked if she could bring her friend. The wife thought it was a good idea, so off to the mountains we went. I was looking...
His wife and he had a curious sex life. She'd always been adventurous and imaginative in her mind but very timid in her experience of all things sexual. So, from an early time in their 10-year marriage, they'd talked over the things we'd like to do and get ready for them. They'd buy things for their pleasure and book themselves into exciting venues where the...
The yellow crime scene tape surrounding the house one Maple St. had the neighbors wondering what had happened in such a quiet neighborhood and at the home of such a beautiful, loving couple as Bill and Ann Bowling. Bill and Ann had been married for seven years and had what anyone would consider a good if not a perfect marriage. They met in high school, fell...
Jerry Monroe is your typical single mid-thirties guy. He drives a four-door sedan and lives by himself in his one bedroom apartment. It is decorated circa 1990 and he likes it that way. He has worked at Johnson Technologies since he graduated from college 14 years ago. Sarah Blaine is a sexually repressed twenty-eight year old woman. She always dresses in a...
Chapter 1: The Girl "See ya later, pal," called Charlie from the bend in the stairwell. Standing in the open doorway of the apartment, Frank gave him a wave. It had been good of Charlie to take all this trouble and Frank was grateful. Charlie was a good friend - always had been. Charlie, now further down the stairs near the front door, yelled, "And maybe...
I enrolled in the local university after my discharge from the Navy, but class wasn't going to open until the fall of the next year. After the high stress of my tour in the Navy, I wanted a candy job while I waited. So I got a job working as a maintenance man at nursing home. My sister's husband worked there, and his sister, and a huge number of females I di...
You can never trust the forecast for mid-May weather in New England. It was actually pleasantly warm. The trees showed signs of new life. Taking a deep breath you could smell spring. What was the line from Tennyson? 'In the spring, a young man's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love'. Chauvinistic, today! What about a young woman's fancy? I was working o...