"So, what's it gonna be Sam. You know I love you staying here and all, but you're going to have to make a decision about Jason. I know this limbo is killing you. And I'm getting tired of Jason's unending texts and calls. He is freaking out," Anne said as she refilled my wine glass. I had been staying at her place for almost a week. I hadn't seen or spoken to...
I go to the same dive bar every Wednesday night for a bocce ball tournament. Nobody takes it too seriously, but it's an opportunity for regulars to get to know each other in ways other than racing to the bottom of a pint glass. After I signed up, I grabbed a beer at the bar and took a lap to see who had come in that night. The bar was dark as usual, but a li...
* * * Simon Sharpe. I decided to go home, leaving Jimmy sitting with Kim at the hospital. I wanted to shower and change. I parked in front of the house and got out of the car. I was just walking to the door when my phone rang. "Hello?" "Hello Simon, it's your father." I froze. I'd hoped to have nothing more to do with my self righteous parents. They'd...
My parents are strict church-goers, and they named me Agnes, after one of the virginal saints. To say that I was given a severe sense of chastity would almost be an understatement. My clothes have always been conservative, and my attitudes have always been prudish. Even so, I have to admit that I once looked up the story of Saint Agnes and found its more lur...
The morning had started off typically enough. Darcy and I had driven over to her mother's place for a quick early breakfast. Maxine had called us earlier asking if she could drive Darcy to the floral shop as Chris had stated the need to use her car to run some much needed errands. Once again, it wasn't unusual that we did that and had readily agreed. The on...
Maurice and Miriam Smith had it all or so it seemed. They were the epitome of the typical young upwardly mobile professional couple as known as 'yuppies.' They had been high school sweethearts and attended the same state university. While Maurice played around some in college and joined a fraternity, Miriam probably would have joined a sorority but money was...
Chapter 25 -- The Lady of Chaos, the Demon Web Pits and Memories Best Forgotten Natalie bled from her fingers and toes where her nails had been pulled out and she whimpered and cried and gave another scream when Talshal walked to her with a whip in her hand. As the priestess raised her hand Natalie closed her eyes to await the blow but it never came and she...
This is a new, rewritten version of a story I wrote called Keeping the Secret. This is a very different story and is the story I originally sat down to write. I find that the stories write themselves, but sometimes I get carried away and wander far from the original story. I like this version much better than the first story. It is more realistic and is much...
Hindsight is such a very queer mistress. Of this I am reminded again and again in recounting the escapades of my youth and my dear friends in Westfordshire City. Time and again in those wonderful days, I feared a lovely era in my life was over, only to grow stronger and happier in the long term. Had I only known when the era truly was to come to a traumatic,...
Erikah walked into the gallery with her friends and couldn't help but look the place over. She had been there during the day to help hang the couple of pictures of hers that were on display, but the place looked completely different at night. The lighting was adjusted, falling on the various photographs just right. Plus, the place was now overflowing with pe...