Ernie banged the large glass mug loudly on the bar. 'Gentlemen! Your attention please! I have an announcement to make. I want to thank you all for your faithful support, and I have greatly enjoyed your company over the years. But as you know I am not getting any younger, and I have decided that it is time for me to enjoy my life savings while I still can....
Camping together had been Emma's idea. We hadn't seen Jed and Natalie for a couple of months and she was missing them. When she proposed a trip with them I knew it was ill-advised, but I didn't want to be the one that killed the plan, so I agreed, half-heartedly. I was pretty sure Natalie would nix it, probably citing Jed's health issues. As it happened, she...
Always an early riser, Mary loved walking her gated community for the exercise and fresh air. The sights and sounds of noisy geese flying in formation overhead peppered with the other sights and sounds of nature, chipmunks and squirrels scrounging for food, along with hawks eying their kill and crows scavenging for anything dead to eat, were diversions that...
"My brother called me a faggot," Anna said to me over the phone. Her voice echoed in the empty receiver and it sounded like a ghost. "Before that, I used to have sex dreams. I would lay on my bed and think about being held down. I wanted a man to use me. To enslave me. I thought about him calling me a faggot and making me weep when he shoved his oversized c...
Saturday 24th May 2003 Well today was a shoe delight. My sister took our daughters Daisy 3 (hers) and Holly 6 (mine) to the matinee ballet, a production especially for children, Saddlers Wells Theatre, Angel Islington. It was their belated Easter treat. My brother drove them up and I tagged along as my bro' and I were going to 'do lunch darling' whilst we w...
What? You've never had duck? Let's make a date, my house, Saturday night, 7 p.m. Wear something casual. I age the duck. Clean it, split it, remove the backbone (which I save for the gravy ... see below), make small gashes in its skin (don't go into the muscle!), salt it down, put it on top of a rack, and let it sit in a cool place about 4 days. Fridge in...
They seemed perfect. He was smitten with her at first exposure. She was immediately attracted to him. Their initial friendship took a long time to form, to gel into a relationship. When it did, they were truly soul-mates. Yet they broke up. The break-up can best be ascribed to "sexual politics." That term, coined in the late sixties as a by-product of the f...
Brooklyn Normally when a client contacted me to engage my services, I was responsible for everything, but not this time. My client, Heston Mallard, knew exactly what he was doing and what he wanted. He was taking a working vacation during the month of March to give his new sailboat a shakedown cruise in the Caribbean. I only had to provide his companion. H...
I jes' turnt twunny-one an' muh Pa tol' me that crops was bad this year, so he couldn't gimme much o' nuthin', but he gimme five bucks an' tol me ta go inta town an' have myself a good time. On the way there I saw Uncle Odell. He asked whut I was doin' an' I tol him, an' he gimme five more dollars and said, "Follow Main Street to Willow, take a left, and thr...
Dedicated to all of the teachers who dream of doing what Miss Titsner does in the story but who are far too ethical to have sex with their students. IT was a typical Midwest high school in the late 1970's but what happened there could have as easily happened just yesterday. There were the usual Friday night football games and dances. There were several sub-...