"It's important to me that my wife doesn't know I set the whole thing up." David was sitting in the back room of an elegant office in a suburban mall. From the front it looked much like any other high-end travel agency. In truth, this office catered to arranging erotic vacations with a very special theme. David was here because he followed up on a few rumo...
I woke up way too early today. Dog was barking at some Jehovah's Witnesses at the door. I was too exhausted to get up and answer the door, so I laid there and tried to fall back to sleep. It didn't take me long to realize I wasn't going to be sleeping anymore. 'What the hell,' I say to myself, 'I have to check my mail anyone. Might as well check out a chat...
"To another season in the bag!" shouted Sarah. A chorus of voices yelled, "cheers" in response. It was the end of the season for Trixi, she was transitioning out of the sport temporarily due to going back to school. Everyone said they were cool and understood, but it wasn't quite the same. After holding up her beer and cheering, she went back to the table th...
We have a good life, Gillian and I. We have a nice, large, detached house in the outskirts of the city where it's quiet and the air is clear. We get time and have the money to engage in a variety of interests. And Gillian is still, at thirty-three, drop-dead gorgeous. I often think that, whatever other successes I've had in life, marrying Gillian eclipses th...
It was bound to be another of those nearly wasted journeys. A long flight to Mexico, two or three boring meetings where the other parties bring up objections and trivial detail about the proposed merger and eventually the whole thing falls flat on its arse. You can smell them a mile away, initial keenness followed by a request for more information and more...
A few years ago, I joined a software start-up as a sales representative in their Charlotte office. The company was headquartered in Silicon Valley. It was considered by the industry as an ideal place to be at that moment due to the rumors that we would become an acquisition target by one of the giant software firms in the next 12 to 18 months. All of my int...
After the night of the celebration, Ann really scolded herself. How could she be so reckless? If anyone found out, she could be fired – and embarrassed around town, as the details would undoubtedly leak out. She promised herself she wouldn't yield to temptation again. The following day, she called Allen at home and explained things to him. She told him it w...
When I arranged for Martin to pick me up at 8 on Saturday morning to take me to Brighton for the job interview I'd forgotten a couple of things. I was reminded of the first when my Mum arrived home, noisily and tipsy at 3 in the morning. With her in the house I'd have to sneak out, otherwise she'd catch me dressed as a woman. I just had to hope she'd be asl...
It was the end of a long, hard day – the third of a five-day conference in a foreign city, a long way from home, a long way from where I wanted to be. I let the door to my hotel room swing shut behind me as I fired up the air-con, grabbed a cigarette from the packet in my pocket, and flopped into a chair by the window. I'd left the lights off – there was not...
(It was the summer of 1961 and I was 21 years old and was continuing with my hobby of bird watching. I had spent the previous two weeks on the banks of Brantwood Water in the English Lake District and had been studying waterfowl) - After Phoebe and Cynthia left me I pondered for over an hour the now familiar prospect which was illuminated by the fading sun...