"Have fun at your conference!" I waved good-bye to Professor Jones and headed home. I was excited that Wednesday I would be free from class. Mrs. Jones and Professor Dubois were leaving from Boston's Logan Airport Tuesday morning for a conference in Los Angeles. I skipped out of class ready for a crisp fall day. Tuesday morning the phone woke me up. I reac...
In dealing with the death of a loved one, a person knows that they are going to have rough times ahead. I recently found out that it can be somewhat worse if the person you lost is a World War II veteran. My grandfather was born into a terrible family situation. His father had been killed by one of his uncles before he was born. His mother did not want him...
Thinking about which experience to tell you all about this time has been difficult. There were so many days, so many single events that stood out, throughout the three months I was away. But eventually I settled on a topic, one that related particularly to my reason for being in Tanzania. I went to Tanzania to teach English, to work along side native teach...
I watched her from the shadows, unseen, unnoticed. She has grown up in the four years since we first met. Then she was a skinny twelve year old with braces, now a beautiful young adult. Four years ago I was homeless, sleeping on park benches and begging for handouts. Unless you have been homeless yourself you have no idea how demoralizing it is. Dirty and h...
I have a Sunday morning lover. He comes by after he works out at the gym. He is fifty and in really good shape. We get along really well and we talk alot about a lot of things. He is very intelligent and well spoken, genuine and real. No falsehoods with this one. He has very blue eyes that twinkle when he is passionate about something, like economics. Which...
Walking through the park in the brisk afternoon, the woman turned to her friend and posed a question. "When we're dead, will you still be with me? Still at my side?" The man stiffened out of cold and surprise, checking to see that his overcoat was tightly buttoned. He drew a breath and continued walking, ignoring the stare she had fixed upon him. "In what...
This is a copyrighted work of Zeb Carter. It is only posted on Literotica.com. * The sun was setting, turning the western sky a deep orange, streaked with yellow. A lone man quietly crept through the forest toward an encampment of soldiers. It was getting dark quickly as the creeper stopped. As the illumination provided by the sun slowly disappeared the lo...
Curled up in a tight ball against the headboard of her bed, she rocks back and forth, her knees drawn up towards her chest, arms tightly holding herself together as if she will fall apart any minute. Trying desperately not to feel. To become numb to the pain. But it hurts, a gut-wrenching ache deep down in the pit of her stomach. If she could only stop feeli...
They had sat at the far corner table so many times before, when egg creams still were on the menu. Their weekly conversations had seeped so deeply into the cushions of the tangerine banquet seats that the waiters knew when to surprise them with monogrammed anniversary cheesecake slices. Back then, it was Sinatra piping through the speakers in the ballroom di...
Alex and Natalie were the perfect couple. They had met when Natalie was in her first year at the university and had fallen in love, hard and fast. They had gotten engaged the Christmas before she graduated and had gotten married the next summer. It was a beautiful wedding with many of her family members in attendance. Alex had a small family and it was like...