Just filling in the wages we paid this month and checking the discipline book from Mrs Dunn, our housekeeper. The columns were not full by any means, obviously all had regular additions to each name but I had never had to dismiss anyone. Well I say never, on one account a girl came perilously close but chose the strictest of punishments instead, which turn...
"Your references are excellent Miss. As you know my previous housekeeper of thirty years recently passed away; that dear lady was a paragon of efficiency. My life has been in total disarray without her. I have been taking my meals at the university cafeteria; a depressing experience to say the least and my house is in absolute shambles." "Well sir, I know I...
"Mommy do I have a daddy?" Little Claire asked her mother, gripping her hand while looking up to Janice Rickets for an answer. Janice swallowed, looking for a good way to avoid the truth to her 6 year old daughter who was to young to be told what really happened. She remembered that night, the knife to her trough, the man ripping of her cloths, then...NO! Sh...
(It was 1892 and I, David Shaw, then aged 19 joined 'Maynard and Son, Purveyors to Gentlewomen and the Aristocracy' on Upper Richmond Road, Putney. The job involved providing 'underskirt services' to single women. This was my third day with the firm) *** I was given the following address by Mr. Maynard's secretary and arrived there promptly at half past tw...
Castle Adurant was a grand estate. The outer walls were impressively dense. The first gate they had to walk through had to be pulled by chains. A guard was always visible no matter where Danetta looked. Elegant dark blue banners hung about, all bearing the same family crest, a leaping mountain cat with pointed ears and red claws framed by a perfect circle of...
Author's Note: This is part 1 of a longer story. It starts off slowly but there's sex eventually. * Do you remember where you were when the Berlin Wall fell? I remember it well as I was getting shafted at work at that time. I was working for M_____ & W_____, a medium-sized import-export firm based in London as an associate, looking for promotion to senior...
Jack woke up and his head was pounding. His brain was throbbing and his throat was dry. He was too tired to get up so just lay in his bed under the covers. Jack muttered to himself that he shouldn't have drunk so much alcohol on his first time drinking. The whole evening seemed to be lost in the mists of drunkenness in his mind. He kind of remembered Lewis f...
At first, she thought it was one of the kids coming home: until she realized that the footsteps in the front hall were a heavier, more mature tread. Leah raised her head in time to see Kyle stride through the door of the kitchen, grinning. "I came home early to find it is much too quiet in this house," he teased, shedding jacket, tie, and briefcase as he cr...
I was about to leave the University of Oxford, with no idea of what I wanted to do with my life, when I saw an advertisement for the post of tutor to the eleven- year-old son of a Scandinavian count, initially for a period of one year. I had travelled very little but I had studied Swedish, Danish and Norwegian for my modern languages degree and I liked the i...
The older we get the more we think about the end of our life. I guess we should be glad we made it this far. Here I was contemplating my past and I was only fifty-three, thinking about by life now, all the rights and wrongs of my past and where do I go from here. My wife of thirty-three years passed on last month. I had always wanted to go first but God did...