This chapter was kindly edited. Great job. Thank you Mike. ***** On the drive home Sunday after noon Ashley and Tiffany talked a mile a minute not stopping for one second to praise Todd to the skies what he had achieved Saturday and Sunday morning. Tiffany was driving the first 20 minutes and Ashley and Todd were making out in the backseat, and the last 20...
My thanks, as always, to ErikThread, for this excellent work and helpful suggestions. Any errors or omissions are mine alone. * More often than not, things don't work out the way you plan them. The unexpected pops up to surprise you. Such was the case with Molly and Marilyn and me. The Pickled Pumpkin has a very nice new location. It re-opened a few month...
There's something about a phenomenal movie combined with a beautiful song that makes your insides clench. I took the chance and saw "The Great Gatsby." It's a book that I read in high school and I loved it so much that I refused to watch the film. Somehow Michelle talked me into going with her to the cinema and I heard one of the most riveting songs that hav...
Chapter 19 Frankie Goes to West Hollywood Sometimes, like a Ritalin-deprived preschooler wired on Count Chocula, love sneaks up behind you and bites you on the ass. Or something close to love, anyway. It's not always easy to figure out what exactly that emotion is. Cherie Jaffe lived in a gated mansion in Belair, and also in a beach house in Malibu, becaus...
After five years in yoga class together, I was having coffee with Cerise, another one of the impossibly beautiful, insanely sexy, seemingly unselfconscious forty-ish year old moms who populate that class. Cerise is a mother of two teenage kids, a health educator and yogini and a pretty compulsive exerciser, kettlebells and so forth. I have had a crush on thi...
Divorced and still single, I have my two elementary-school-age children each Wednesday evening and every other weekend, and my social life, what little of it there is, pretty much revolves around them. Though I'm horny as the devil all the time, I'm just not interested in a relationship, and don't really have time for one if I were. I had the kids for the La...
The wind was blowing fiercely and the snow was quite deep. Everything had been cancelled, schools, government offices were closed even many of the local churches had given worshipers a day off using the rationale that, "God wouldn't want you to risk your life in this weather just to worship him." It made perfect sense. So, what to do? The kids were home and...
Patrick got to the dance fashionably late. It was one of the rare times that he didn't have a date, the object of his most recent attentions had smiled and told him that she already had a date. Jennifer was the most popular girl in their freshman class at State. Patrick had dated her in high school, just a few times. Like always, she was either with one jo...
Chapter 1: New Year's Eve I knew this night would be a New Year's Eve like no other. It was already shaping up to be just that. Over the years I had attended memorable New Year's parties. But I was positive there had never one quite like this one. I was alone in this strange city... not exactly by choice. My boss had sent me to finalize a contract that she...
Ch.11 All Together Now The old Harley came off the back of the pick up slowly, as the guys eased it down. The flat tires made it near impossible to move properly, as four of them pushed it into the bay and set it on the stand. "Well, there it is Wally. How do you like her?" Wally walked around the old bike, checking out the need for a grea...