Chapter 5 -- Merry Christmas December 1973 Jim knew that life and all its events was a proposition of give and take. He strove to hold up his end by giving, lest he err in the taking. It was his last chance. It was nine in the evening and the stores would be open for anther thirty minutes. It would be no good to wait until the next day. The next day woul...
The temperature fell below freezing that first night, but it didn't snow. That was good. It allowed Linda to finish her work the next day by 2pm and spend a little more time making the cabin her own. By the end of the week she had the route down cold. All the better, because the first real snowstorm of the year began on Saturday, and it was dark when she got...
I left work early Christmas Eve hoping to surprise my 51 year old wife, Dawn, with an early Christmas "gift. I figured we could spend part of the evening in bed, and then head out for some last minute Christmas shopping and a nice dinner afterwards. When I got home, I saw Santa's sleigh on my roof making me a little apprehensive, but I went ahead and parked...
Dr Alta lived alone after his messy divorce of a dozen years ago. He saw his 6 children on alternate weekends, though the older ones were off at college now. His home was modest, chosen more for it's rustic location and land than for the actual home. It suited his needs, and offered him quiet and solitude his creative nature required. As he sat sipping his...
A previous story which has been edited and spruced up a bit! You might remember Wendy?? (Hopebeach) Wendy celebrates the school Pantomime. 'Oh no it isn't.' Oh yes it is.' Oh no it isn't.' Oh yes it is.' The audience screamed at Robin Hood up on the stage as the pantomime cow behind him waddled about the stage, its udders swinging to and fro with great...
Alison Walkers was finishing her second last semester of her college career. She was an attractive twenty-year old, with golden blonde long hair, green eyes, and high cheekbones, and a skinny little body with big round 34C cup breasts. But Alison was the only single one out of all of her friends, and the holidays depressed her because of this. She longed to...
It was bringing home the IPod Touch that turned my wife Karen into a whore. To everyone she met, Karen had always seemed rather conservative. Everything from her politics to her career as an insurance underwriter to her manner of speech and dress would have tagged Karen as modest, reserved, even snobbish. That's often the case, I've found, with women who, li...
I had just returned from visiting my real brother for Christmas, in Boeblingen, near Stuttgart. He was in Radio Company, Seventh Army, stationed in the Panzer Kaserne, on a hill above the town. I loved Ray very much - we were as close as brothers can get. Our Christmas together in a foreign land was very special. We had called mom and dad on Christmas Eve, d...
It had been a very quiet Saturday afternoon at 'Sleepeezy', a bed showroom in the heart of town. It was quarter to five in the evening on the last Saturday before Christmas. A handful of customers had been in but none of them had really been interested in buying anything. A young family had been in looking at the possibility of purchasing a bunk bed for thei...
I hadn't lived on the Oregon Coast a full year, so I had not yet tried to cross the mountain pass during Christmas. My family (nuclear and extended) all live in Portland, about two hours away from my new home in Seaside. It was for this reason that it had simply never occurred to me that I might not be able to go home for Christmas. I went home for everythin...