Speech I stood on the platform in the ballroom of the Daniels mansion just as I had a half dozen times before. I rehearsed what I was about to say in my mind even though I had made similar statements many, many times before in front of women's groups, charity organizations, fraternal organizations, you name it. As Mr Daniels introduced me I looked out at th...
Peter's first reaction was disbelief. He spoke again, "Laurie?" Laurie had her back to the ocean; a stiff cold land breeze was in her face. More wind than breeze; it smacked her in the face, it swept her breath away, through a hacking cough she rasped, "Peter?" Peter sort of recognized the voice. It sounded a lot like Laurie's; only it was caught up in som...
45 minutes after masturbating into the special receptacle condom (reputedly lamb's skin) I was still sitting in a chilly waiting area with about a dozen other men. Nobody looked at one another or said anything. Everyone wore the same dour expression as they played with their phones. Finally my name was called and I was led down the hall again to another, ev...
Alena Darcy,RN is one of those rare creatures, an extremely beautiful woman with an effervescent, mischievous, daring, caring, personality. Three years into her marriage it was apparent that she had grown, as a person, but her husband had not. They divorced. Alena went to work for the Butterfield Fertility Clinic in affluent White Plains, New York. Dr. Don...
CHAPTER 10 -- FORBIDDEN FRUIT It was a foggy morning and the air felt cooler than it had the night before. Shivering outside of the building I previously knew to be the call center, I rubbed my arms in an attempt to stay warm. The sign hanging above the glass doors to the building now read "TRADING POST". I recognized it as the same sign that used to hang o...
Dr. Ruth Rabinowitz, the sixty-two-year-old owner of the Westside Reproductive Center, sat at her desk finishing up the last of her paperwork for the day. Even though it was only Wednesday, she was already looking forward to the weekend and spending some time in her garden. In truth, she despised her job, but the money was quite good, and unlike others in th...
In just a little over two years in the US Air Force, I was heading to war. We had been waiting in the mobility center for 5 hours listening to dry boring briefings, awaiting our transportation. Finally, our bus arrived and we grabbed our 'bail out bags' and got onto the bus that would take us to the flight line. Ten minutes later we rolled up under the win...
Authors note: Hello everyone. I hope you have been enjoying this series of the Tables. Thank you once again to David and Kate for being my second set of eyes. Enjoy! ~ellie. ***** Dressed in a plain linen shift dress, Olivia clutched Genesis' hand as she walked into the large imposing building of the Australian Federal Police, labelled with the initials A...
The Far Side of the Sun December Heidi Stillwell winced as the shrill throbbing cadence of her alarm clock penetrated the early morning fog, causing her to bolt upright even as she became aware of a deep pain resonating somewhere behind her right eye. She tried to rub five hours of sleep from her eyes, tried to connect with the realities of the day ahead,...
We had decided to move to what was consider the best side of town searching for a five bedroom house in a quite Cul de sac. We found one in a crescent with only six houses we asked the couple why you are leaving such a lovely crescent they replied we miss the town centre area it a bit quite for us. Hope you both enjoy living here. We moved in on Saturday in...