I sat at my favorite table smoking when Lilly showed up to ask if I needed anything. I asked for a bottle of Perrier and she smiled and said "Right away Mr. Bob." I sent off a few emails, sent some pictures of the new place to my wife and then scrolled through my WeChat deleting all the whores wanting to connect then checked my Whatspp. I had a message from...
I guess you might say I'm a lucky man. My name is Paul, and I have a runner's body which has stayed with me since college. That's how I got to college in the first place. I was good at running the hurdles and even better at the sprint races. If it was a mile or less, I was your man. At least I was good enough to get an athletic scholarship. I even got to try...
You ever find yourself in that state between sleep and wakefulness, when you wonder if what's playing out in your mind is really happening, or just something conjured from the semi-conscious state? That's exactly what I began to wonder on Saturday, at just after two in the morning, when, despite how tired I was, I knew I had to take care of the last thing o...
Early Seventies. Last of the Summer, just before the Autumn walks all over it. Mid Friday afternoon, storm coming, sky as sullen as my mood. Walking out the last of my high school days, did well in my last exams, just turned eighteen, ought to be as happy as a pig in shit but I'm not. Want to see Sandra, my tutor. Known her a long time and we click like a...
The key on the rose trellis was easier to find. It was mid day on the 27th of July. I had been gone one day shy of 4 weeks and had cut it close. Laura would probably come in sometime during the night and spend until Saturday the 31st with me. As I entered through the back door I saw the telephone on the kitchen wall. Having made the commitment to take Laura...
KAYLA SYDNEY MARTIN AGE 18 STATUS: IN A RELATIONSHIP RELATIONSHIP TO YOU: 26/100 MODERATE CRUSH Chet stared at these words hover above Kayla's head as she ran out of the locker room, slowly shrinking along with her diminishing figure in the distance until she turned a corner. Then the words vanished altogether, leaving him to ponder the last two lines...
It's been a little more than a year ago when I met a man who would forever alter my life and my wife Laurie. I met Steve at a conference in Hilton Head where I was attending a sales conference. Steve was a trainer at the conference and my company teamed attendees up with trainers, at least those who elected to do so, in order to cut costs. It was at this con...
Sunlight creeps through the blinds. It's unwanted. Morning has come too soon. My brain is swimming with images from my dreams, my dreams haunted by what happened the day before. Thoughts fade away and then return in brilliant detail only to fade away again. All I see is Brad's penis and I. I want it to go away. To disappear like nothing happened. It's unrele...
A week or so later Marie hit me with her latest plan. She had decided to not go out with Suzie quite as often to the bar for drinks and dancing. Instead she announced that Suzie was going to lead a new exercise class at the gym. It would be a combination of yoga and exotic dancing. Marie gushed as she told me her plan. “I will get toned up for you and maybe...
Senior Class Trip around the World I couldn't believe that in a few short months, I would be graduating from Corona Valley High School. Being 18 and lacking vision on my immediate future and what I wanted to do after my senior year, well it didn't really phase me. I knew I could go to college. I certainly had the grades for it, but my parents didn't really...