"So the point of all this is that we believe it would be mutually beneficial, and would would really appreciate it if you would join in on the fundraisers and awareness events for the South African rain forest, Mr. Davis. With a blossoming business like yours that promotes organic components and all-natural materials, it would achieve a lot for rainforest pr...
"Do you realize that it was only 4 weeks ago you and I were walking down the aisle together and getting married?" Fern said to Don. The two of them were in the hospital looking forward to Fern's imminent discharge, hopefully before the weekend which was two days away. "At that time," she continued, "I really was walking because I had two legs then. But look...
It started with my wife coming home from the doctor's and telling me that she had to have a hysterectomy. No biggie, happens to women all the time, right? Emotionally, it was of no concern for either of us because she was long past the age for having children and beside, I'd already had a vasectomy. My major concern was what the operation was going to do to...
It was now three months since Peter Blake had moved into his new flat. He had done a lot of work and had it the way he wanted. The views were superb overlooking the seafront. He was now twenty-eight and had been offered a partnership in a large local firm. He was enjoying his new life. He had so much time for himself. He lived in a block of flats with twelve...
Are you alone and lonely for the holidays? Don't you wish that Ronco would invent something to make you feel not so alone and sell it on TV for, oh, I don't know, $19.99 and if you called right now, you'd get a second one for free? Yeah, well, go fish, life doesn't work that way. A friend in need is a friend indeed doesn't always go along with you sow what...
Sure, I knew that I had taken advantage of her. I had manipulated her. I had used her. I had made her the subject of a twisted experiment, of sorts. But did I really deserve those final words from her? She always had some sort of thing for me. That's how it started. I was just in that particular time in a guy's life when it was easy to see myself as a hot...
Six months later. "Bas Version 1.2, come on line." Bas opened his eyes. He almost groaned as he tried to interpret the sheer mass of sensations opening his new eyes had caused. "Respond, Bas Version 1.2." "Online, Dr. Anderson." The vibrations of using his new voice box, surprised him. "Good. Can you see me, Bas?" "Yes, Dr. Anderson." He focused on t...
The next day Tim discovered that Carol Ann wasn't the only hot woman in the apartment complex where he lived. In mid-afternoon he came out of his apartment and headed downstairs, on his way to work, when he saw an attractive woman in a nurse's uniform emerging from an apartment on the ground floor, near the stairs. The nurse was short and attractive and had...
I sat in my green recliner chair, not reclined, but rocking a little. There was a news program on the television in front of me, but I wasn't really watching it. My wife was sitting on the sofa that matched my recliner, next to the end table with the light on it, looking very focused as she did a Sudoku puzzle. As we sat in the living room after dinner, I w...
This story ends the "It's Too Darn Hot" series (though some of the characters will turn up in the still-ongoing "Ryan Family" series). If you haven't read the previous chapters (It's Too Darn Hot, Days 1 and 2, It's Too Darn Hot Day 3, It's Too Darn Hot, Days 4 and 5, It's Too Darn Hot Day 5 (1PM), It's Too Darn Hot Day 5 (night), Ryan Family Chapter 5 -- wh...