Carrie pushed back from the desk, eyes bleary and tired. She'd spent the day working with her supervisor, Nancy, finishing end-of-month reports and logs for the small school in rural Texas – she was tired of staring at the computer screen and scratching notes with her pencil. Her mind, however, was in overdrive. Since early that morning Robert had been goin...
This is dedicated to my childhood companion, Mr. Peabody * "So eight guys walk into a whorehouse..." "...on Halloween..." "...and the madam pours them a drink..." "...on the house..." "...and they all drink a toast to 'C. P. Swallows'..." "...and then leave..." "...without a blowjob, a handjob, or a quick fuck." I look up from my book at Brooke and...
San Diego is a wonderful place, even in the winter. Thanksgiving and Christmas have a different kind of feel when you are surrounded by palm trees, beaches and beautiful women. The lack of snow, and cold weather is fine with me, after all, I live on a boat and have good reason to avoid miserable winters. The first time I was there was in the winter of 1975....
I haven't had a lot of luck with exes. There was the one who took half my record collection with her. The one who left me feeling bereft and empty for months before announcing, when the gap was irreconcilable, that she thought we'd done the wrong thing by splitting. The one who copied her key to my flat before returning it and turned up in the middle of t...
Being a twenty-four year old wife of a construction worker, I’m used to cleaning up messes, and watching my husband pass out at nine or ten at night. It doesn’t really bother me, we get along great when he’s awake and home, and our life is pretty alright, he also makes decent money. Last year we decided to save for a house. I had been working part time and i...
Right now, I am in bed. I am in my dorm back at Bridgewater State College. My roommate Elisabeth is asleep next to me. She's a mousy blonde girl from Atlanta. I am tired, from a long night at work. I am counting the money I made this month. Thirty thousand dollars in cash, all for one month's work down at Club Le Monde. Before you start asking about directio...
The young black woman strolled down the hallway from the conference room and towards what would now become "her" office. She walked with authoritative strides. For a minute I remained behind, standing alone in the small conference room rethinking the events that led up to this moment. The embarrassment Alexis had subjected me to this morning, and in the pres...
Charles was very wary of going back into the Maze that morning. After all, being landed in the middle of a major wartime operation was no small matter, and the effect still lay with him now. Even a crow scarer in the fields was enough to get him diving for the floor, and Sandra wondered if it had not unsettled him permanently. So it took some courage to sta...
Jeranimo was trapped in a nightmare of his worst fears, all the cases where people had died, how and why he had failed them. The visions were replaying inside his mind over and over. Not things that he had actually witnessed but the logical conclusions his deductions had drawn from the facts of each case. The worst one was all the missing kids and their cryi...
She was my first girlfriend, and my best friend. The first, and only, person I came out to for two years. And it was wonderful, I told her I was lesbian. She told me she'd had a crush on me for years. We started to date right then. She introduced me to some of her friends, we went to parties. She even introduced me to the bondage and submission and dominance...