It was a bright but muggy morning in July. Darcy was taking every care he could, not to get hot and flustered. He had an interview and the last thing he needed was damp sweat marks showing on his freshly ironed shirt. He was trying to stay focused and prepared. Even muttering to himself responses to imagined potential questions. He must've been muttering too...
There were three of them and two of us. My colleague Paul and I were at the Philadelphia Convention Center for a large industry gathering. Since Paul and I worked and lived locally, we hadn't booked a hotel room at the adjoining Marriott, unlike most of the other conventioneers, who had assembled from across the Mid-Atlantic. Paul was relatively new to our...
After the tryst with Darcy the night before I knew I would have to be careful about what happened the following day incase anyone had heard us. I got up early, and made my way to the shower in the camp ground. As I was in the shower I heard the door open and Steve appeared. He looked right at me as he put his things down and turned on the shower right next t...
"Come on, you guys! Keep up!" Darcy yelled back at Thor and Jane, who were walking with hands in each others' back pockets, figuratively speaking. Jane wasn't sure she had back pockets, so maybe Thor was just grabbing her ass. She was definitely grabbing his. "Guys!Come! On! You're gonna love this!" "Slow down!" Jane countered. Her words were slurring. It w...
Darcy submerged her hands in the warm soapy water of dinner dishes and wondered why life's little chores didn't magically disappear even when your life was falling down around your ears. It had been a week since she'd discovered her husband fucking the neighbor. She sighed as she rinsed another dish, wishing it was that easy to wipe the relationship slate c...
Magnus and His Family (Chapter 16) Kathryn M. Burke Late the next morning—it was a Saturday—Paul showed up at the sorority house again. When he was let in, he asked the girl who had opened the door, "Hey, is Darcy here?" "Yeah, I think so," she said, giving Paul a warm look. "Check the library." The house had a library where girls could study in reas...
This was the scene Darcy Heffernan had been waiting for. It had been five years since she had moved to the States, and two years since she landed the gig on UBC's "Scarlet Beach." In her days at the National Institute of Dramatic Arts, Darcy imagined herself performing Shakespeare on Broadway one day, not appearing as the lead actress in UBC's third-highest...
Steve continued to stare at us as Darcy rubbed the side of my head. Darcy began to put little kisses on the side of my face where Steve had hit me; with I presume a branch of some sorts. "I am not kidding!" Steve yelled. Darcy spat at him and then began to frantically try to untie me. To no avail, as Steve was quickly on her. Steve through Darcy off of my...
"Go ahead. Take it out," Marcus said as he rolled the ice cubes around in his rocks glass, smiling and nodding toward the bedroom door, behind which my wife was waiting. "She'll wait." The handsome black man, who at 22 was less than half my age, was making me feel like I usually make other people feel while doing business with them. I was back on my heels,...
Ch. 06 song titles The Firebird, Finale (Stravinsky) Concerto for Trumpet in E-flat, Movement III (Hummel) The Trumpet Shall Sound (Handel) Petrushka, Ballerina Trumpet Solo (Stravinsky) Pictures at an Exhibition, Movement I (Mussorgsky) Symphony No. 5, Movement I opening (Mahler) Pines of Rome, Movement II trumpet solo (Respighi) Shut Up and...