Recently, GeorgeAnderson wrote a story called "February Sucks." In my opinion, it was a brilliant story based upon the premise of a man possibly giving his wife the famed "hall pass" to have sex with a celebrity, in this case, an imaginary NFL star named March LeValliere. George wrote an emotionally-fraught piece that ended in a reconciliation, which resulte...
Something more I am a not only a very bad judge of character, but apparently I don't know a damn thing about love either. I just watched my best friend from college drive away from my house with my wife, theoretically never to be seen by me again. Things sure seemed a lot different 48 hours ago when this weekend started. Then I was worried that my wife, t...
Henry: I didn't see the warning signs, but when you love and trust someone completely, you aren't really looking for them either. I didn't think anything of it a year ago when my wife of 28 years, Traci, started mentioning a new co-worker in recounting the events of her workday. Some guy named Tyler, a kid who had recently joined the team she was on at Gei...
Hindsight truly is 100 percent. I suppose I should have been suspicious the first time my wife came home from her job in the art gallery bubbling over a new patron. But when you trust somebody completely, and she's never given you the slightest worry in the 17 years you've been together, your initial inclination is to give her a little slack. My initial in...
No-sex alert warning. Also, if you're looking for a feel-good ending, move on down the line. Life isn't always pretty. It's just life. ***** "You think that's a slut story?" asked Helena Bonham as a group of Perriman Financial execs sat around a Logan International Airport bar in Boston waiting out a snow delay. "How about this: I know this woman who was s...
And then the light bulb went on above my head, like it does in cartoons when a character gets an idea or the answer to a question. Holy shit -- my third child really wasn't mine -- she was the biological daughter of another man! I was on the phone with a representative from Genealogygurus.com, inquiring as to why my daughter's DNA test had not been process...
Remember that scene in The Godfather when Michael Corleone sees a beautiful woman in Italy and kind of goes into a stupor? His two Sicilian bodyguards see it and start talking about how he's been hit by "the thunderbolt" and he's lost in love. That's not just a made-up movie thing. I've seen it first-hand, although at the time I wasn't aware of what it was....
I was two shots of Jack Daniels into what was starting out to be an epically bad weekend, and it wasn't even 3 in the afternoon on a Friday. I'm a reporter for a small newspaper in the Midwest, and because I had worked several late nights in a row, my boss had given me comp time off for Friday afternoon. So after running a few errands, I headed home for wha...
This is a follow-up to my last story, "Can We Play?" which I did as part of the LW "Sharing & Caring" special earlier this month. That story was really far out of my comfort zone, but I felt it was a good challenge for me, so I participated. As I expected, most of the readers didn't catch on to what the intent of the stories were supposed to be, and I go...
Again, a sincere thank you to Harddaysknight for his critical read of my story before publishing. Real life and a lot of hours working sometimes takes my concentration away from my writing, and he spots those lapses for me. * I was more interested in writing and history than I was interested in math and science for most of my school years, with the excepti...