This is the final chapter, for the time being. I still have life left in me and I am sure I will have at least a couple of more adventures coming up. We shall see. I am getting up there in age, so I will just take what comes along. I am hoping that I could meet more nice people like Carolyn, on one of the websites and maybe even on another website where wom...
It was after dinner when Gloria and Lynn Hydelman watched his favorite show. He had plenty of favorite shows, she not so much. As an associate editor for a local magazine Gloria was more into fact-based narratives, her attention tonight was not focused on the show. Gloria ran her fingers down the sides of the Cosmo filled tumbler, watched little drops of m...
© Copyright 2007 Chapter 11 Fall from Grace "Buenos dias, Señora Warner," Juana chanted, "Chu are a-wake airlee dees morning." She placed a coffee cup and saucer on the table where Gloria always sat and poured it full of the magic black elixir. She resumed humming her song and hurried to the refrigerator to get the cream; the sugar was already on the table...
...I'd got to decide, forever, betwixt two things, and I knowed it. I studied a minute, sort of holding my breath, and then says to myself: "All right then, I'll go to hell." —Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn *** I was still on my knees when Beetlesmith began a new conversation. "Hell is neither here nor there for now. Those ends are some di...
"Gloria, can you come in for a minute?" the boss called from his office door. What now? thought Gloria, as she sorted out some paperwork. It was Thursday evening and, as a marketing manager in the agency, Gloria had been very busy in the past few weeks with some projects, so another job was the last thing she needed. She stretched her full 5'9" figure and...
AUTHOR'S NOTES: Back to the romance category... because in the end it really is just a simple love story. ***** ... I awoke to a thin ray of sunlight peeking through the window blinds, as I slowly opened my eyes. I closed them again, just briefly, to clear my head and get my bearings, before opening them once more. I was lying on my right side, towards Br...
Dale dutifully let her lead the way. She took him by the hand and marched up the stairs. There seemed to be any number of bedrooms on this floor, but she led him to the first door on the left, which he suspected was the master bedroom. It turned out to be a surprisingly small room, and he quickly understood that it was a guest room. Was this where Gloria alw...
Conner opened his eyes. The sun was shinning through the cracks of the blinds. He turned his head and looked at the clock. It was way past noon. He turned around and saw an empty bed. Gloria must have woke up. Conner got out of bed and used the bathroom before walking into the kitchen where he found his wife with her cell phone glued to her ear. She was sta...
The four of us laid on the large couch in sheer exhaustion. It was more than an hour later, well after midnight, and we were spread out like fallen dominoes... Cassandra was on one end of the couch, leaning at an angle into the armrest... I was leaning into her... Gloria and Maggie were laying down, knees bent, and in a spoon position. The tops of their head...
It was a lazy Saturday afternoon in September when Dale opened the door of Gloria's house, even though no one had rung the doorbell. It was exactly two o'clock. A few moments later, Dale summoned Lois, who was idly reading a magazine in the living room. She gaped at the newcomer whom Dale had ushered into the room; but before she could say anything, Dale sai...