Chapter 5 - Joining Families Martin Caulfield had never been one of those guys who was lucky in love. For a number of years, the entirety of his love life had been an unmitigated disaster. 4 long-term relationships since he had turned 16 and now the promise of a bitter, acrimonious divorce loomed on the horizon. Iris had left him and their son behind to ru...
One afternoon, when Vanessa was out, I spent an enjoyable hour going through her wardrobe. Vanessa had, as I have said, expensive tastes, and spent a lot of money on clothing and underwear. She tended, as I have mentioned, to dress quite conservatively, but beneath the prim and proper dresses she wore to work she loved to wear sexy lingerie, and had a huge c...
With apologies to Helen Macdonald. Just seventy some centimetres south from her neck is an area I have come well to love. The bracken fens nearby, damp, inviting, curling, concealing. That hidden reclusive ravine, holding all that is lovely and beckoning in the feminine world. Yet just below, often fearfully neglected, cradled by two rounded smooth hills...
Since man was able to think there existed the dark psyche, part of our subconscious that we suppress in our rational thinking, and only touch upon when we surrender ourselves to our physical desires. Freud called this side of us our Ego's, we are a race of sexual beings who only now have begun to realise our full selves. Many of us share the same dark fantas...
I had just finished filling the compartments of the stand that had been in front of our house for years, and as I made the tomatoes and corn look just right in their places, I remembered how my wife used to get upset if the display looked ragged. The idea of selling vegetables out of the little cart had been the idea of my late wife Carol, and I kept filling...
I see you online and we begin to flirt and play via email. At one point you ask if I plan to come down the coast and have a cup of coffee or brunch with you while I have some time off from teaching. I decide to throw caution to the wind and jump onto the highway. We had been lovers years ago, but our lives had taken separate paths. We both had complicated ci...
We had no idea where this might lead although we both felt we were on a slippery slope. Yet it was a slippery slope of our own making and we both knew the next step would place us on the cusp of the slide, the point of no return. Hand in hand we took one more step. Who are we? We are two humans on a path to one of two destinations. One destination means our...
When the doorbell rang Terry jumped. Having just graduated from high school he was killing time this Tuesday morning by watching an old TV show and thinking how stupid it was - he couldn't imagine how his parents had enjoyed those things years ago. At the door was his sister's friend, Lindsay. "Jeri's not home" he said, thinking she would be gone in a minut...
After a long time coming, a lifetime of suffering, the first day of summer is when an aging cross dresser finally gives into the life he's always wanted to live. As if a new beginning, as if being born again, Donald looked to his transformation from man to woman, as his emergence from moth to butterfly. He couldn't wait to fly away to start his life anew. P...
"Oh for gosh sakes, Doris, what are you looking at?" Mildred, Doris' friend of fifty years was watching her friend's head turn to follow something moving past their apartment complex. They were sitting by the pool where they did every afternoon at 2:00PM unless they had some other engagement. Doris always made a decanter of martinis' and set them out on the...