There are some days that should never happen. Today was one of these days. Actually, to tell the truth, the last several hundred should have never happened. Life used to be good, fun, and exciting; there were things to look forward to every day. I used to get up in the morning and be excited about going to work, if I got a new project I would be excited with...
Mary's life had suddenly come dramatically alive in her 50th year. Although reaching that landmark wasn't something she was looking forward to, events over the last few months had really grabbed the mature wife and grandmother and shaken her up more than she could ever have imagined! She was 49, and was happily ensconced in a long, uneventful marriage that...
Epilogue: It has been true knowledge that forever Faerie Tales of old bring us great stories of hope. They preach moral lessons, romance, violence, and the deepest well of human emotion. Many carry temptation, and the darker side of things. Of course, all tales are open to their own brand of interpretation. And keeping that in mind, we pass now to the Broke...
I could tell that something was up between Beth and Andy as soon as I walked back into the living room. There was the sound of frenetic activity just after I closed the back door on my way in. And when I came through the door to the living room with the beer Beth had sent me to get, I could sense the tension in the room. I didn't think about it too long at t...
Aunt Jane had left for work by the time that I got back to her home after my night with my first client, Kay the executive banker. I called her at work and on the phone, she implored me to give her details, to tell her how the night had gone. I stalled Aunt Jane, telling her that I would do that when next I saw her face to face. Jane wasn't happy, but she fi...
Before reading this little adventure, please read The Weekend (Part I) which was originally intended as a stand-alone story and I have changed slightly at the suggestion of several readers in order to extend and complete the tale of our heroine. There is not a great deal of graphic sexual shenanigans in this absolute figment of my imagination, so if you ar...
Chapter 2: The Rescue *** Author's Note: This is fantasy based on Johnny Depp's character, Captain Jack Sparrow, Keira Knightley's character, Elizabeth Swann, and Orlando Bloom's character, Will Turner from the film *Pirates of the Caribbean.* It contains a tiny spoiler for the sequel, 2006's *Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest.* Any discrepancies...
Chapter 32 Mystery Client The sound of Meka Okuda's squeaky office chair made my fillings ache. "You ever considered oiling that thing?" I complained. "Oiling what thing?" Meka asked absently as she worked on a drawing in her sketch book. The digital clock on a shelf near the door said that it was twenty minutes to noon, Li Hong would be here any moment...
Chapter One She stopped at the mirror just inside her front door to check herself before her students arrived. Monica's shoulder length, dirty blonde hair was neat and tidy with no hair out of place as far as she could see. Her thirty seven year old face showed no signs of wrinkles. She could no longer pass for a woman in her twenties, but she still looked...
This is the middle installment of a three-part novella. It picks up right where the first part left off, which may make it a bit hard to follow for those who haven't read chapter 1. As a recap: Our narrator is Dennis, a three-times-a-month regular to forty-ish prostitute Gloria, who works out of the renovated garage of her house. When he accidentally met Glo...