(If you came looking for cartoons they are in the previous chapters.) ***** Chapter Ten --- The Future's So Beige You Gotta Wear Shades James and future Mary were standing next to the UFO as it quietly hovered above a parking spot next to the street. Mary was glad to get out of the space car and she did some sexy little stretches that caused her tiny ski...
As I have mentioned in a number of the stories I have written, before my retirement ten years ago, I worked as a professor of English in a small but expensive New England college. As you already know if you ever went to college, English 101 is required of all freshmen students. The purpose of this course is for the professor to try and enable students to wr...
When I was a college senior, my good friend and roommate Gary was dating this very good-looking chick, Patty. I was not dating anyone at the time, so I accompanied them one Friday night down to the "strip," where all the bars and clubs were that catered to the university crowd. We were en route to this New Wave music club where we partied and danced from t...
This is a story straight from my imagination. Any correlation between the players in this story and actual people is purely coincidence. Enjoy J * * * * * The date is March 18th. Arianna looks to her calendar to see what appointments she has scheduled for the day. "Lets see here, Board meeting at 9am, what a way to start the day…ugh! Finance at 11am, tha...
(A Story of Alternative Dentistry) I was the only person left in the dentist's waiting room. The last appointment of the day I guessed. I had already leafed through most of the dog-eared magazines that were strewn about the coffee table. I'd been nervous enough as it was, without this dreadful waiting, the delays, waiting for my name to be called. This was...
The last time I visited home, I passed the old sandlot. There is a house there now, but I could not help but visualise our old chicken-wire backstop, crude frisbee bases, and the pile of dirt we called a pitcher's mound. When the weather was good, all the boys in the neighbourhood (and sometimes the girls, too) would spend their afternoons playing ball on th...
I went into mourning, I guess. There was some second-guessing involved, too. In the end, I couldn't see that I had done anything wrong - or that things would have turned out differently if I had acted otherwise. There was no question that I would miss Jen. But I was honest enough with myself to wonder which I would miss more: Jen, or the incredible sex....
"Do we really need to run 20 miles today? Why can't we do 18 again?" "Look, Phil. If you're serious about running your first marathon, then we stick to the schedule. Today is 20, not 18. You've got to get these longer runs in because the difference between 18 and 26 is huge. Trust me." "How many have you run? Five, right?" "This'll be number six. So it's...
"Dad!" exclaimed my daughter Brandi as she wrapped her arms around my neck and gave me a hearty hug. "You look so much different. Your hair is shorter, your gut is gone, you look taller and you feel like a block of granite. Except for that scar on your cheek, I'd have to say that it looks like the Army agreed with you!" "I haven't lost a pound, Sweetie, but...
At age 9, I contracted polio. At first I thought I was being punished for pretending to be crippled. For a year or so I had been using the slats from the bed and ace bandages to bind up my leg and walk around the house when no one was home. I had always been interested in people with disabilities. Never could understand why. When I left the hospital I was i...