How To
There are no magic formulas for success, but the older I get, the more I rely on a few simple principles to help get me through each passing day. One could argue that these are simply "common sense", but as my wise grandmother used to say, "common sense isn't very common." The common superficial indicators of success-money, a good job, fancy possessions, and...
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DTales
on Sep 24, 2018
Sci-Fi & Fantasy
Dr. Rossum entered his classroom from the door near the electronic blackboard, which was really more of a huge pressure-sensitive multipurpose monitor and tablet. Those who grew up long ago might remember the dissonance from calling green slates affixed to walls "blackboards" rather than chalkboards. With chalk out of the equation, and any color available at...
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by
davidjamie69
on Sep 17, 2017
Non-Erotic
An account of the impact of teenage abortion on two young lives, and the unforeseen consequences years later.
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Why did you go through with it? Why did you do it? You didn't have to. And now you know you made a mistake. A terrible mistake. One that can never be undone. Ever. How sad. How stubborn. But I'll still love you, always.
I can still see your beau...
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caligula97236
on Sep 14, 2017
Novels and Novellas
Chapter 6 -- The Day of the Dead
In the middle of September there was another indication that Kim was becoming more settled in her new life in Danube City. She sat at the table of Sergekt's mother for the first time. Danubian social protocol mandated that any social contact between a young man and a young woman had to be preceded by the young man sitting at...
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by
Whispor
on Sep 14, 2017
Erotic Couplings
I met Dorothy at a community meeting to discuss zoning proposals in our neighborhood. I recognized her as the elderly neighbor who lived behind us, but we had never been formally introduced or spoken to each other. We made small talk about the issues being discussed, how nice the neighborhood was, and so on.
I'm 41. Dorothy was older. Much older. She menti...
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by
auguy86
on Feb 26, 2018
Sci-Fi & Fantasy
Chapter 3 -- The Wizard
The next morning, Maddie bounced down the steps of Dave's apartment building and headed towards the parking lot, seeing Cindy waiting in her car for her. It felt so strange to Maddie that today was Sunday, yet she had not gone to church. Still, she recognized that these were unique circumstances, with a great number of pressing erra...
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by
edgarf217
on Sep 17, 2017
Mature
He was cleaning the house. The house was already clean enough, he knew. He also knew that it had become his new habit since his wife had passed away to keep things to the standard that she had always wanted. He shook his head and wondered what she would think, if she could see him now. After all the years of harrying him to clean up after himself, would she...
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by
NymphWriter
on Sep 13, 2017
Non-Erotic
She stood outside the funeral home and told herself this was a mistake. She had been having this dialogue with herself since the day she saw the obituary in the paper. It's not like she read those on a regular basis, in fact, she avoided this section of the paper like the plague because she found it morbid and creepy, but she was reading an article that had...
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by
Litbridge
on Sep 17, 2017
Non-Erotic
It is perhaps understandable that Michael Chapman learned about love from the only teacher to ever read his mind, to touch his heart -- indeed, to reach his very soul. It was prescient that she did so only when the rest of his world was asleep, blanketed in the anonymity of each day's darkest hours. For it was during these times that he felt most alone, most...
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by
Skippy47
on Jan 20, 2020
Loving Wives
Author's note: I had trouble figuring out how to end Part One: Reconciliation, BTB, or kill the victim? I chose the latter but later I had an idea for a sequel. Here it is. You will probably need to read Shame, Shame, Shame first. As always, hope you enjoy.
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Sheila lay in her bed crying. The guilt of causing her husband Kurt to commit suicide made the...
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