Authors Note: Here is the second installment of my annual "summer read," just in time for the holiday. Please curl up in your beach chair and follow the adventures of Allie and her friends. ***** Santa Barbara Sun - Part 2 - Complications of a Love Triangle On Monday morning, Allie was standing at the kitchen counter, chewing a bagel and sipping her black...
I'M SORRY ITS' BEEN SO LONG! I would like to say hello to my friends and readers who have toughed it out while waiting for this short chapter to arrive. I can't tell you how hard it is for me to walk the 12 feet from my bed to this computer console, which contains everything I need to move this story along. My brain feels and reacts like under-cooked oatmea...
"We have to stop!" she said. She said it very sharply. "Um, okay," I said. "We can stop." I held her by the waist and tried to make eye contact, but she wouldn't look at me. She pulled my hands off and flung them away. "I'm sorry," I whispered, withdrawing arms. "Have I hurt you?" "No," she said, her voice breaking. She buried her face in her hands in ob...
The relationships we have are threads in a tapestry, each woven together to show the life we have lived and connections we have with one another. This is the second of an open-ended series that will feature characters from some of my past stories, and introduce some new friends for us to get to know. Before you read any further, this is not a direct sequel...
I'm sitting here somewhat confused, with a gnawing sensation inside that something just isn't right. I can't articulate it really, but it's there still eating at me. Sometimes you just know when something is off. Right? I'm not making sense, let me explain. I just went to my wife's office to drop off her phone that she left at the house. No I didn't see som...
It had taken a little talking, but Melinda had finally convinced Gerald to visit his family without her. It wasn't that she didn't like his family, and she loved him madly, but, well, they'd been married five years and in all that time she'd had precisely two weekends to herself. She'd just wanted a time out from being a minister's wife and everything that w...
I have been going to BDSM parties for ages and I have met some interesting people. A few of them have ended up being partners, for play or relationships, a few of them have become my closest friends, and even some of my worst enemies. But tonight, I'm going to tell you the story of how I met my husband. I had been making the rounds on dating sites for about...
Too young, that's what Jan had told him, that first summer. They were too young to be so serious. Yes, she loved him, but she wanted the summer off. They should date other people over the summer. Well, she had been very young, that first summer. She was one of those city girls who had skipped a grade. He'd met her for lunch, somehow there had been a mutual...
"Get a telescope." That was all the note said. I checked and it was post-marked from here in the city but with no return address. The hand-writing was fluid and broad, a woman's hand wrote this. At first I thought it was something for the prior tenant of this apartment until I flipped the envelope over again and found my name in the same fluid script. I h...
The day Chris Ames landed his first role in a feature film was the best day of his life. He knew he'd skipped several rungs on the career ladder and gone from being a no-name actor in a used car commercial to supporting actor in a legitimate film with one of his idols playing the lead. Holy. Shit. And not only that — he played the boy toy love interest of...