Mike had the damned ticket anyway, so it seemed crazy not to use it. Two tickets for the London Eye. On Valentine's Day. He'd booked it months ago, in the first flushes of his relationship with Vicki. He should have known it wouldn't have lasted this long. No, wait, that was wrong. It was a negative way of thinking that had oozed through every aspect...
Justin's Visit About a year after we moved to Taiwan, Laurie started working in a private kindergarten in the "western" part of the city. The students were the children of American and European ex-pats and children of wealthy Chinese who wanted an English education. One of her colleagues (and good friend) was an English woman named Katherine. They became qu...
The next morning Max had already left the house when I woke. A note on the kitchen table said simply “Call Cindy for instructions- see you tonight. Wear these.” The note was taped to the top of a cardboard box which I opened to find a beautiful set of white lace underwear: a half cup bra and matching g-string, along with a garter belt and a pair of white sil...
All my life, I've only lived with people with whom I was intimately acquainted. A year after I finished grad school, however, I found myself under-employed and woefully underpaid. My options were move back in with my parents (unthinkable) or scour Craigslist for the cheapest roommate ad I could find. That's how I met Amber. Big tits, an equally-proportioned...
We finish the last morsels of the meal and she reaches to take the plates. I stand up, smile over to her and grab up our dishes, give her a wink and walk them over to the sink to start rinsing them off and put into the dishwasher. "That hit the spot, Jo. Thank you!" "You're very welcome, honey. Come on and give me a hand up, I'm ready for a smoke." She smi...
Making me feel better is my lovers favorite thing to do, and today was no exception. It's 5, time to shut down the office and I'm dreading the trip home tonight. Life can be draining, but I never want to let the 'problems' cloud my point of view. That just robs your soul of thrills and delights that lay hidden among the thorns of life. Taking my own advic...
He was working from home as he did most days, tapping and clicking away on his laptop at the kitchen table. The Bill Evans Trio's mellow and melodic harmonies played softly in the background, helping him through the drudgery of being a professional email answerer, as most middle managers are these days. The doorbell rang out, breaking the rhythm of his work...
Tales of Carlitos, the Mexican Factory Worker Chapter 3: American Shamanism Carlos held a large coffee table book on Teotihuacán in his arm as he rang the apartment doorbell of his new friend and co-worker Paul. Teotihuacán, the Mexican archeological site that was home to the great pyramid of the sun and slightly smaller pyramid of the moon, was the forem...
"Why can't you come over to my place?" Samantha pouted. She'd stopped Stacey outside school, told him her folks weren't home, and invited him over. When he said he couldn't go to her house, she got upset. Stacey really wanted to accept the nubile teen's offer, but he couldn't. He'd promised to go over to Mrs. Davidson's house. "Look, Samantha, I really wan...
"Shit! Shitshhitshitshit!" Sarah quietly screamed, looking at the scrape on the back fender where she'd kissed the nearby post of the mall's underground parkade. Tears welled in her eyes. "What am I going to do?" she lamented, beginning to hyperventilate, as she considered her husband's response. She wasn't even supposed to be using his pride and joy, a maro...