My name is Joanne; we recently moved from the city to a rural area. I had been a nurse in a large liver and kidney transplant unit for about six years. My husband and I have been married ten years and we've never had children; that was our choice. The way things are going I think that was a good idea. A year and a half ago I discovered that he had been havi...
"That's my girl Jayla over at the yellow sea horse. Which one is yours?" "I don't have one, yet. I'm prospecting to get a feel for what it's like to come out here." "You white folks have a lot of discipline. I popped my first one with sixteen." "Well, the economy is hard. A month after Lehman Brothers bankruptcy, my husband's production line was black-lit...
Marilyn looked directly into Penny's eyes, and relaxed, trying to loose her normally cool demeanor. Maybe today was the day to break it off. This just might work to her favor. "Good morning, Will," she said. "Noontime around here, Ma," he said gruffly. "Well good afternoon then," she replied, matching his gruffness with a catty tone. Marilyn heard the bel...
All Scores Are Settled ~~~~~~~~~~ Herbie, AKA, James Madison Wilkins Miller, M.D., Ph.D., was sitting in his office in Westwood, west L.A., when he reluctantly picked up his phone. Politely he asked the client he was with to excuse the interruption. "This is Dr. Miller, may I help..." Yvette's voice cut in, loud and on the verge of hysteria, "Herbie! I'...
Chapter Fifteen Ethan stared down at Jenna's sleeping form knowing she was going to be pissed when she woke. He couldn't stay in her apartment; he had to work, just as she did. He leaned down, brushing her bangs off of her forehead and let his lips linger gently against her skin for an instant. "I love you, Jenna." She mumbled something in her sleep, turn...
Mercies Mercy: 5. kind or compassionate treatment; relief from suffering - Webster's New World Dictionary of the American Language, Second College Edition "All right. Shit! Time?" Dr. Janet "J.T." Monroe was exhausted, her scrubs soaked with sweat, the blood of her patient splashed on her lab coat. A head injury patient she had treated intensively for fiv...
Hello, I'm going to tell you a story, a true story (of course the names have been changed and some minor details) that happened to me just a few months ago that has completely transformed my life. I would even say it has liberated me unconditionally in every way. I am still a married woman, and to my husband, sons and friends there seem to be no reasons...
Monday, 6:32AM FBI Indoor Firing Range Bismarck, North Dakota FBI Special Agent Samantha Douglas purposefully rammed the magazine into her Glock 19 9mm pistol that she used as a backup piece, racked the slide chambering a round and then took aim at "center mass" of the paper target 21 feet away. With rapid, dispassionate, mechanical precision she sent all...
Three days had passed since we returned. Mom and I had a lunch planned to go over what I had missed at the office and get her thoughts on how we could shake things up. I called Cat to see if she was available for dinner after the meeting but she said she wasn't and had to rush off the phone. I walked into the restaurant and the hostess escorted me to the t...
Love and Sex in the Time of the Coronavirus Spring 2020 "It is not a lack of love that drives most marriages apart, but a lack of trust." - Felix Francis in "Triple Crown," 2016 # "Paul, what the fuck is going on?" My wife rarely used profanities before the epidemic. A month of working daily fourteen-hour shifts as a nurse had strained even her Chri...