The clock had just struck seven by the time Noemi Velez stepped into her small basement apartment and reached for the light switch by the door. No sooner had the room filled with light, the thirty-six-year-old Puerto Rican woman went right to her computer and booted it up. Two months ago, the Assistant Store Manager at Food King didn't even own a home comp...
I've never been a leader but also don't follow the sheep. A different type of story... because I'm different. MY LAWYERS, PSYCHIATRISTS, THOSE MANY VOICES IN MY HEAD, AND WIFE MADE ME ADD THIS. You can't sue me, I'm legally insane and I may be an illegal alien. I have written that I believe in treating women as equals. Yes, that is true. But, we all ha...
My New People Watching Location in a Corn Field. After moving from the Midwest to Florida in 1994 we began shopping in the little town ten miles south. There were two grocery stores at first. The little Piggly Wiggly at the far south end of town was in the first tiny shopping center of the town in what was then the main part of town. We tried the Piggly Wi...
Joyce had barely made it back to the apartment from the grocery store where she worked as a checkout clerk and tucked the ham she'd brought home—the last one in the store—before it was time to go pick up the Christmas cake she'd ordered from Gleesons before they closed. She had already been cutting her time short—she still had to go buy a tree and figure out...
Fred enjoyed shopping late at night, there were no crowds, the staff was accessible and since they were kind of bored they were always very helpful. A normal forty five minute shopping trip would transform into an easy thirty minute stroll as long as you stopped in around midnight or so. The convenience of this late night shopping was always nice but that's...
Elevator Dreams I'm flattered by the many nice and inspiring responses of the stories I wrote so far. Many are from men, some of women. I've received one from a woman of my own age. She is, just like me, a fat black old woman. We've started a chat session and she told me about a young white man, who lives in the same apartment building. I encouraged her to...
Marcus never really understood his attraction to grocery shopping but once again he found himself wandering the chilly aisles well before lunch time on a Tuesday. Sure, the store wasn't very crowded at that time in the morning and with so few people in the store, it was extra cool at that time. Walking through the produce section he couldn't help but gaze at...
I didn't know why but after my best friend Mark got in a relationship with a beautiful black woman I completely was obsessed by them. They were pretty rare where I come from and I never had an attraction for them plus I never was a lesbian. My name? It was Claudia, I was a 24 years old white blond girl who always had that Disney princess face. It was easy fo...
"We're not in Louisiana anymore, Toto..." On the corner of a four-way intersection in downtown, Danni canvassed the concrete jungle with her hazel eyes. The skinny girl had dark hair with a hint of purple, short New Orleans Saints jersey which showed off her belly button, and frayed jean shorts. She wore white knee-high socks with gold and black stripes and...
Mrs. Bisby's divorce case was getting uglier all the time. Her husband, Dave, a police officer, was looking for anything her could use to make himself look like less of an ass, and that ended any more late night swims. Her lawyer said she had to avoid anything that even looked improper to maintain the upper hand in any court actions, and with Mr. Bisby's pol...