Vic Domenichi was my best friend growing up. Along with Vic, and a couple of other guys who formed our clique, we were pretty much inseparable during our high school years. When we were 15, it was Vic that took the heat when we got busted for blowing up mailboxes that Halloween with firecrackers. He was always the one in our circle of friends that could talk...
Our relatively small book club has been running for many years, with the same ladies as members. We are all happily married -- to our first husbands - and have kids that are nearly adults themselves. Having known each other for years we have shared many close personal stories. However, being very discrete women it took some time for us to realize that we had...
Looking around her kitchen in disgust, Kendra seethed at her husband. The kitchen pipes leaked, and the overhead ceiling fans didn't work. The bathroom wasn't much better - the faucet had been leaking for more than a year. And outside the house, several things needed to be painted, the gutters needed to be cleaned, and a retaining wall was crumbling apart. H...
Thursday I woke up when I heard the car door slam. I looked around and it was bright outside. I peered out the window and saw Mom pulling out of the driveway. I suddenly realized that it was after 12! I had slept for almost 16 hours and no one, Mom at least, woke me up. Maybe she tried and decided to just leave me alone. I was now faced with a dilemma. I w...
"Smile!" Sophie tapped the screen, then snapped several more frames. One picture was never enough - someone blinked, or something got in the way. She was always pedantic about making sure that things turned out right, even though she didn't care too much how she looked in photos. It was something I appreciated about my future sister-in-law. It was the perfe...
Alex was sitting in front of the computer, his eyes locked upon the image on the screen before him, as they had been for the past two hours. The study was in semi-darkness, a lamp in the far corner providing a deep orange glow that contrasted harshly with the bright blue of the computer monitor. A Johnny Cash CD was on replay on the stereo, and Alex's lips m...
Life Is Uncertain - Eat Dessert First! Copyright© 2008, 2012 by Stultus Thanks to Dowyd, Dragonsweb & DuffieDawg and several advance readers that prefer to maintain deniability Synopsis: Is it possible for a woman to cheat on her husband without ever having sex with another man? A former Navy officer and marine researcher discovers the answer, when his wif...
Why did I agree to accompany the young salesman to his hotel room? Over the previous four years, in many hotels I had received countless similar propositions but every time had left rejected suitors behind, including several both better looking and more persuasive than Richard, my companion for the night. Was it because Richard seemed relatively inexperience...
Forever looking for opportunities or creating them, Wong had subtly but constantly been dropping hints to his foreign maid that he wanted to get to know her better. In the morning especially during breakfast, he had often caressed her thighs and buttocks when she laid his food at the table. The woman had not pushed his hands away, but neither had she respond...
I watched as my sister Beth arrived and parked her car. I walked over to her as she got out. 'Hi Beth,' I said giving her a hug. 'Hi Mat. So this is the place.' We were way out in the countryside, at what appeared to be an exclusive country club. It was owned by Jack, the father of my wife Kate, from whom I was separated. He owned a group of companies and...