Lightening crashed. The flash of light woke Amy up from a start. The thunder from the previous flash of lightening rumbled in the distance. The light wouldn't switch on. It took a second for her brain to turn on and start it's own rumbling. She moaned lightly as she remembered what happened. It was prom night. She had a date with Cyrus Warner. Cyrus was the...
It was a beautiful sunny October afternoon on the campus of the Pensacola University in Florida. Eduardo was a young man half Portuguese and half Polish. He was shorter than average with the shoulders of a swimmer. His auburn hair was longish and he had a stud in his nose and a ring in his lip. He was a pre-med student, and he was in class studying anatomy a...
"I don't want you to jump, Josie." I pulled her aside to try to get her to listen to me for once. She poked me in the stomach and smiled. "Of course I'm gonna jump, you did." Everyone else was perched on the ledge overlooking the waterfall. "I was only a couple feet from hitting the side, you won't be able to jump far enough out." She frowned. "Josie, don...
I stepped out into the warmth of the sun – it was a wonderfully fine summer's day, one of those stinking hot days we can get in England every few summers, or so. I was wearing a brief little black thong, and I arranged a large beach towel on the recliner, and moved it to face the sun. On the little wooden table I placed my suntan lotion, then a sheaf of pap...
He couldn't stand it any longer. A powerful CEO sitting in his office each day distracted from budgets, investors and decisions...distracted by one woman he barely knew. Sure, he had met her during the interview for her middle management position, but generic questions about her work ethic and future were little use in what he wanted to do to her. For the pa...
Late on Sunday morning, I sat at the kitchen table studying the box scores from spring training. Lisa, my girlfriend of the past few months, was busy making breakfast on the old stove, clanging pots around as she cooked me an omelet. Lisa was a teammate of mine on the fencing team. I had pursued her for months, trying to get her to go out, even though she wa...
"Hello darling'," Clay held the telephone receiver to his ear as he imitated Conway Twitty's voice singing the first two words of a song to which he and Rebecca frequently danced. "Hi Clay," Rebecca tried valiantly to infuse some humor into her voice. "Are you learning a lot?" "I plan on doing that tomorrow." "I miss you." Rebecca squeezed her mother's han...
I have a real love/hate relationship going on with Becky up in the front office -- she loves to hate me. I have never figured out why unless she is on some class kick. Maybe she thinks that being dressed up and working in the office makes her better than someone wearing grease and ink stained coveralls out in the shop. Then again, maybe it is my hair tonic o...
I recently spent a week in my hometown to take care of some chores my folks needed to have done at their home. On the second day of my visit I dropped in my old stomping grounds for a beer. As soon as I walked in the tavern I saw an old high school buddy; Vince waved me over to the table where he was watching the Blackhawks lose and get knocked out of the pl...
I'd broken the golden rule again. It was becoming a tiresome habit. Chandler's boy, Phillip Marlowe, may not be real, but he never broke it. He never did divorce work. The end of a romance is, frankly, the lowest human beings can get before they completely loose it. Even when it concerns basically good people; divorce can bring out the bad in anyone. That's...