Author's note: This chapter contains no sexual activity. If that is what you're looking for, please return next week. As always, thanks for reading, and your votes and comments. ### Sorrow and solitude These are the precious things And the only words That are worth rememberin' - Nothin', Robert Plant & Allison Kraus ### "You're quitting?" My teac...
I probably wouldn't have been as annoyed by the sound of the doorbell if I hadn't just gotten the football game on and sat down with a beer. With my wife and three daughters out shopping for homecoming dresses I had the rare opportunity to spend my Saturday watching any and every college game without interruption. Such an occasion deserved (at least in my mi...
Chapter 1 Penny Eastman wasn't a neglectful mother. She wasn't a domineering mother. She wasn't a permissive mother. She tried her best to raise her daughter, Vickie Eastman right, tried to raise her to be respectful of others, conscientious, and courteous. Penny tried to teach her daughter the same morals and principles that her own mother had taught her....
I was standing in the crowded cafeteria, trying not to think about my stomach growling. I'd forgotten to eat breakfast this morning, and now at 2PM I was suffering the consequences of my forgetfulness. I looked behind me once or twice, noticing the line only getting longer. At least I wasn't in the back...but I certainly wasn't in the front either. I scanned...
Chapter 16 Alex dropped her purse off on the table as she sorted through her mail. Nothing, as usual. "Hey stranger!" Lena called out. "Hey!" Alex turned the corner and Lena was on a chair changing the light bulb in the overhead light. "Don't fall," Alex marveled. "What's with that look?" her roommate asked seeing the grin on her roommates face. "We...
She said nothing. There was no one to say anything to. She looked over at Shane. He looked almost like an angel beside her. The moon caressing his skin as it slipped through the burgundy curtains making it seem almost luminescent. His pale blue eyes hidden by his slumber. She could still see them though, in her mind. The way they were when she first saw him....
Als diese Geschichte passierte war ich 19, hatte mein Abitur in der Tasche und wollte mit meiner Freundin diesen Erfolg feiern, wir wollten in die Türkei in ein 4-Sterne Hotel und drei Wochen feiern. Wir wurden von unseren Eltern und Freunden gewarnt und wir sollten doch woanders hin fahren, aber wir blieben gerade wegen der Einmischung der Anderen stur. Mei...
Wake to the alarm and go to roll over but am caught by Fred. Look around and find am quite close to the edge so would have fallen to the floor again. He is chuckling since I am calling him things because he moved us so close to the edge of the bed. Alarm off we are into the shower and work on getting clean. Squeak when I am grabbed up and Fred pulls me up...
37 Dusk was just extending its shadowy fingers over the scene. Surfers were wending their way home from the beaches, colourful surfboards slung firmly on top of colourful cars and vans. Zinc cream glowed beneath mirrored sun glasses on the faces that seemed to glow in the red rays of the setting sun. The homeward bound traffic from the beaches confronted he...
Friends with benefits is kind of a cool, detached term. When we talk about friends with benefits we're thinking of "Sex in the City" with hip and beautiful career women in a trendy and slick metropolis who don't need men for anything but sex. They're self contained and self absorbed and they need each other more than they'll ever need any man. Their friends...