There are never any secrets. Not ever. Not in a large or small community. People are spies by nature. Sister Agnes had caught Father Pete having sex with Meggan. It was their sin and didn't Jesus die for all our sins? Weren't they all washed away by His blood? Sister Agnes younger sister had gotten married to a young strong bull of a Lithuanian, a police o...
I have been working as an IT manager in a business office for nearly 5 years. I regularly to favors for some the employees when they have computer issues, so its not uncommon for me to take someone's PC home and fix it and return it the next day. One Friday afternoon an employee named Holly jumped me in the hall. Holly was a good looking lady, in her mid 40...
I was 25, and I had developed my first ever schoolgirl crush. I was a first year law student and he was my professor. He had attracted my attention slowly – there was nothing particularly extraordinary about him, but I'd always been the type to be more attracted to someone once I had a sense of his personality. Professor Smith was in his early fifties, wit...
Heather drove up and around the hill at the entrance to Lexington Villa. Red flowers on the right, and yellow on the left- it was exactly the same when she had made this drive nearly every day for over a year as Assistant Manager for the complex. She had really enjoyed that job. She loved the gossip; she loved knowing everyone's drama even if she never share...
This was the 70's. Gone was the hippie generation, the war in Vietnam was over and the country was in a gas crisis. Watergate was behind us, and people just wanted to make money. Money was always in style. I had just turned 18 a month before this story started to happen. To make money since I can remember, I mowed grass for neighbors. Every summer I had a s...
Synopsis: This is the same story, the same incident, told from the perspective of Susan, instead of Mr. Johnson. With apologies to Kurosawa, it is like "Rashomon" in that it is the same event told by a different witness. * My name is Susan. I recently got a new job with a manufacturing company, in the Accounting Department. The previous Administrative Ass...
Maddie Sturm gripped the front of her coat and held it tightly shut under her chin as she quickly walked across the Hurricane Box Company parking lot. It had been the coldest winter in years in Hurricane, West Virginia and Maddie couldn't wait for spring. Maddie shuffled gingerly through the newly fallen snow. She never tied her size five Timberlands, and s...
Harry O'Hern's alarm went at 7:00. In recent weeks as part of his return to normal life he'd resumed jogging each weekday morning. Fifteen minutes later he set off, a lone figure but no longer 'lost' as thought of Teresa and the gap that had left in his life had slipped into the background. He'd received a call from Sierra's mother the previous evening say...
It was a rainy day after my summer school class, I was 18 going to prep before college. I got a lift to the tutors, she was an amazingly cheerful woman, late 40's, always made my day with her smile and always surprised me with how deliciously intriguing she was to me, even though we had decades between us. The woman that gave me a lift was an unconfident d...
"Thanks for a wonderful evening," Barbara Loomis told Tim Jackman when they pulled up in front of her apartment building late Saturday evening. Barbara worked at the Jamestown Police Department, as the secretary for the chief of detectives. She'd wanted to go out with Tim since the first time he'd come into her office to drop off crime reports from his shif...