When eighteen year old Carey Willingham attends freshman orientation at Biloxi College in the summer of 2002 she has an eye out for good looking boys. She is struck by a guy who has the most exotic green eyes that she ever saw. He is thin with black hair and a boyish face. Carey sits near him at lunch and introduces herself to him. He mumbles that his name i...
My first husband Jim was born and raised in Palo Alto, California, very close to a university where his father had been a very well-paid administrator. His parents had bought their home in the 1950s and it was worth over two million dollars when they died in a car accident. It quickly doubled in value again before Jim worked through the will and finished mov...
"Damn its negative again" Denise thought as she looked down at her pregnancy test. "Rich and I have been fucking like dogs for 6 months now and still he can't get me pregnant. He is going to be pretty disappointed when I tell him", she thought. Denise had already been to her doctor who confirmed that she ovulated regularly, that she had a normal uterus, and...
Chapter 6 Mollie arrived for drinks a little late, figuring to be there just a little before Stephen and was spot on with her timing. Groomed and dressed superbly she made quite an impact. Gary hurried over and kissed Mollie warmly and that raised a murmur but nothing like the reaction when Stephen walked in a few minutes later and kissed her on both che...
Dedicated fondly to the inimitable Victoria Tuft. Chad had a very successful first year on campus. He was one of the most popular guys to come through the school in a long time. Great grades, athletic prowess, throngs of worshipers (male and female) and great parties were the envy of every matriculating freshman, particularly Jason. Part of Chad's popularit...
I pulled into the parking lot and turned off my car. The sun was dazzling. It was a hot early autumn afternoon, nearly eighty degrees out, and I still hadn't gotten my air-conditioning fixed. The weather would turn cooler soon enough and then I wouldn't have to get it fixed until spring, I thought. I sat there with the windows rolled down. My t-shirt stuck t...
This is another fantasy about my high school coach. I hope you enjoy… I saw him across the room, dancing closely with a woman I didn't know. He was behind her, the backside of her body enticingly close to him, and I could tell he was enjoying it. He didn't see me come in, and I felt the thrill of anticipation as my friends and I moved toward the other side...
Jiu Wei Chen had arrived in Westminster, a suburb of Denver Colorado in early April, where she had accepted a position as an Au Pair girl for a young professional couple. The weather didn't pose much of a problem getting used to, as it was only ten degrees cooler than what she had left behind in her Native Hong Kong. She had been a middle distance runner sin...
The school building looked the same but it didn't feel the same. Maybe I had outgrown it or maybe I had just been left me behind in more ways than one. I had spent two years in that building before my father became ill. Everyone I had grown up with would be gone. I hated the idea of returning to finish my senior year, but my mom had insisted. Not only that,...
Emma Twist didn't attend the champagne reception after Poppy's wedding. After helping take most of the students back to the Grange she left them in the capable hand of Margaret Pardoe and climbed into her little second-hand Fiat. It was her preference that day to make a visit to a certain Lavender Cottage on the periphery of Peasmarsh. The windows were ope...