This is my second attempt at a story. Like any story I would write, this is based largely upon fact with maybe just a touch of embellishment. Sara and I are a married couple in our early thirties, this is the second marriage for both of us. We live in the Chicago area and both of us have busy careers that at times seem all consuming. When our marriage reac...
Diana was one of the new engineers rotating through the plant I worked as part of their post college training, or introduction to the "Real World". They would rotate between departments about every six months or so. I had a reputation as being gruff, but fair, and more than willing to mentor anyone who really wanted to learn. I wasn't an engineer myself, bu...
I'm sorry it's been awhile since I've contributed, I really appreciate all of you sending me Emails with your comments, good and bad. They've been really helpful. Please keep it up. I have several more stories almost ready for publication so keep a lookout as well and let me know your thoughts. This story is about something that happened to me a few years...
Day 4 - Off We Go I slept so well I was still asleep on the dingy well after the sun had come up. Now anyone with a pair of binoculars or good eyesight could see that I was lying there completely naked. Neither Bob nor I stirred until Lisa stuck her head up through the hatch and woke us. She asked if I was trying to get a head start on my tan today. I just...
"Listen...listen." "Hmmmm?" I opened my heavy eyes to the darkness. The bus was hurtling along the bumpy country highway. "I am feeling really cold. Can you get a blanket from the blue handbag?" my wife Niyati whispered, shivering in the ramshackle bus with no heater and poor insulation. "Hmmmm." Groggily, I got up and went to the front of the bus where...
It was a pleasant surprise when Robert saw Adam at the park one fine morning. Robert had known him in his college days about 15 years earlier. They were not the best of friends though they knew each other well enough. Now they were in their mid-thirties, busy with their own lives and they had all but forgotten about even each other's existence. Meanwhile the...
It was two days before Christmas, and we were trying our best to get home to San Francisco from New York. It just happened that we were both in New York on business and were able to schedule our return flight together. It's something that rarely happens, given the way our schedules work. It's not like we were trying to get to a big family celebration, becaus...
The day before Shelley's wedding has finally arrived, and it's time to put my plan to the test. Shelley and I have been having an affair for 2 years, even though I am married and she is engaged. For some reason, I just kept coming up with excuses not to leave my wife. Until it was too late in Shelley's eyes, and she gave up on me and decided to go through he...
Cold rain, wind and hail pummeled the city. The power had been out for some time. Jeanne didn't know the exact reason why. She didn't care. She was just pissed. The entire city had shut down, traffic had come to a complete stop, she'd missed her meeting, and she was soaked to the bone. Jeanne could do nothing but shiver in her flimsy business suit as she s...
The executive jet tipped a wing as it turned over the azure-blue waters and pointed the nose of the aircraft toward the runway at the far end of Grand Cayman Island. The sumptuously appointed interior of the plane had comfortable leather seats which enveloped the passengers as they buckled in for landing at Owen Roberts International Airport. As the A-frame...