Bill Thornbury, holding his cards just below his eyes, watched Jack Burton laying down his three aces. “There, you bushwhackers, read em and weep,” Jack said as he reached for the pot. “Not so fast,” Bill said. “I did not stay in just to sweeten the pot” With that, he lay down his cards. “Just got these itty bitty pair of sixes, and three pretty nines, for...
After a hard night at work, the last thing I wanted to do was to go to the grocery store. But, after the kids knocked at the door for the third time saying that there was nothing to eat, I knew I had to brave the elements. With lots of grumbling and groaning, I finally rolled out of the bed. The sun, that cruel orb, had the nerve to be shining directly int...
Her eyes burned into the back of his head as he walked away. How could any one man be so arrogant, so cocky, such a royal prick? That he had the power and position to get away with it only made it more frustrating. No one had the right to speak to another human being the way he just spoke to her. She was not accustomed to being treated in this fashion, moreo...
Mary was eying up the small cakes in the coffee shop display. She already had a buttered muffin on her tray to go with the latte she had ordered, but there was a nagging desire to grab something with cream or icing as well. She was resisting because she knew it was comfort food but her resolve was weakening as she felt she needed some comfort right now. "Ho...
Our flight arrived in Malaga six hours late and by the time we rented a car and drove to our hotel, it was well after midnight. I collapsed onto the bed, exhausted from the Trans-Atlantic odyssey that had begun exactly twenty-four hours earlier. Because I had worked most of the day before taking the evening flight from Boston, I had been awake for almost thi...
A Perfect Time with a Perfect Stranger The meetings, the bullshit, and the business part of the day were finally over. It had been one meeting too many, and certainly one heated argument too many for Ricquie. She wondered where the concept of give-and-take had gone. These people were like her last boyfriend Carl, - his way or the highway. She was quite cer...
My job, well it may seem boring but it has it's perk's. I am a mail clerk at a very well to do company and they have some of the finest and hottest female employees. Several are very self centered and would not give a "mail clerk" the time of day, but they are still hot and I love to see them in my duties. Then there are the hot flirtatious ones. I love to...
From our fist date I realized what a sexual woman Cindi was. We were both divorced and in our 30's so neither of us were hesitant about acting on our mutual attraction. Our first official date was a lunch in which we talked at length about how we had both seen each other before and always been attracted to each other. Two days later Cindi came to my house to...
I was just downtown running errands when I happen to run into Brett. He grinned when he said hello and it brought back vivid memories of a crazy time I had last summer. It started in early June shortly after the end of the school year. My wife, Sandy, is a high school English teacher who has spent the last several summers in graduate school. She completed h...
Many thanks to -slighter for editing this story. The information course at the insurance company's county head office had been as boring as expected and the four women were glad that it was over now at eight o'clock in the evening. They were co-workers at a local office in a small Scandinavian town about 40 km from the county capital. All four were married...