Money is always dear when you are a graduate student. Let's face it. The money you receive from ones scholarship only stretches so far and three months each year, mine dries up. I am forced to take a part-time job to keep solvent, which cuts into my research and lengthens the time until I can finally graduate into a real life. Each spring, I dread being forc...
Passion in James County XIV: A Week In The Mountains Chapter fifteen When Frankie and Sue Ervins returned from their walk, he and the three women played a game of "Trivial Pursuits." Frankie could hardly wait to tell Kay what he was sure had happened between Ronny and Mrs. Ervins, but that didn't keep him from winning three of the four games they played. H...
"I am buying Jack a Condo as soon as I can." I chirped as I entered the house. I am Bob, just plain Bob, an average guy with an average life but a momentous problem. My wife Lynn, the high and mighty Mistress Lynn of my house, was a controlling bitch who showed her true colors three months after we got married and since then, in the ensuing three years, my...
When I was 13 I was totally un-kissable. I had big hair and big glasses and a lisp-causing retainer and I had neither boobs nor trendy clothes to compensate for my awkward misfortunes. My friends would talk about the guys they had kissed, or the guys they had held hands with at those skate-nights where all the cool kids would go and skate around in circles f...
Bill had come to visit the day before. We had to go meet him quite a way south of where we live because his car had overheated and we needed to follow him to our house. I asked Lynne to ride with Bill in case we got separated. Lynne had worn a pair of short shorts and a tank top and I'm sure that made the long ride to our house more enjoyable. Last night ha...
It was this past spring when I convinced my wife to take the moldy money out of the savings to buy a used boat. A friend of the family was selling and with gas prices, I understood why, but I had other plans. With the kids older now and all but on their own, the wife and I can leave for a weekend alone, camping at the local lake. Now with the boat anchored...
My buddies and I decided to take a half-day to visit a local water park. Temperatures were rising and visiting Splash City during the weekend was out of the question if you didn't want to be in 2 hour lines just to ride something for 2 minutes, while being surrounded by screaming kids. Little did we know most people seemed to have had the same idea. At lea...
Chapter 6 - Alone in the house. Later that day you pop round to Becky's. It felt great telling your mother that you where going to see the best looking girl at school. She was so proud of you - little did she know. Becky was not along in her house but her parents don't mind as she leads you upstairs to her bedroom. You're amazed at all her beautiful clothe...
It was a business trip that Jean Cameron's anatomy would never forget. Jean had spent nearly 21 years working as an accountant at her firm, Arlen Rutherford & MacKenzie, in Alberry Ridge. Over two decades of accounting had a heavy impact on Jean both mentally and physically. As if being a glorified human calculator-spreadsheet wasn't enough, Jean had been pa...
Chapter Twelve – The Fruits of Hubris Towards the end of May, Jadranka accompanied her classmates on an expedition into the wild territories to study and identify rock deposits and land formations along the northern mountains. Some of the places she already had seen when she was a Follower. The freedom of the open country beckoned her, reminding her of the...