For Sam, there was something slightly intimidating about large corporations. Perhaps it was the vast, open spaces of marble and brass elevators, the enormous windows overlooking from the 17th story an immaculate plaza below. Perhaps it was the power suits, and the executives downing an egg roll as they listened intently to their messages on cell phones like...
This is a work of fiction but based on a real life happening. I'd like to immensely thank Mandy Marie for her excellent help in editing. Linda's Surprise The box fan secured in the window was whirring quietly, hypnotically moving the warm air around, and bringing in the accompanying scent of someone's recently mowed lawn. Lightly slumbering in this strange...
Just where the long trailing branches of a graceful weeping willow tree overhung the path beside the water, I paused to enjoy the view and the cool of the willow shade. I sensed a movement beside me. It was a girl. "Hi, Jack," she said. "You all alone down here?" "Yeah, I, ah...,"I stammered. "I seen you at school." I had seen her a few times on the coll...
After college, Christy and I had drifted apart. I had married Susan, my sometimes girlfriend, and Christy had married some guy named Tony, or Tim, or something like that. My son had arrived barely a year into our marriage, and I was too young and immature to manage my life properly. My divorce from Susan had seemed heartbreaking at the time, but Susan and...
"Good morning, sister Zainab, how are you?" Salomon "Suleiman" Vaillant said pleasantly to the six-foot-tall, majestic and curvaceous, forty-something Somali Muslim woman who stood before him, a faint smile on her lovely face. Clad in a blue work shirt over a long-sleeved sweater and a traditional Islamic long dress, her hair tucked away under a modest blue...
They had been 18 the night the accident occurred. Ethan had wanted Jamie with every inch of his Six foot three inch frame for as long as he could remember. They had been childhood playmates...but sometime in those years between 12 and 15...Jamie became a goddess. Ethan knew he wasn't unattractive by any means...in fact many people considered him more attra...
She liked to be in control and wanted to be able to see where they were going, or so she told him, so she was pleased when he let her ride on the front saddle. The front saddle was altogether nicer than the back one. It was a thin racing saddle with a smoothly pointed end canted slightly upwards which made pleasurable contact with her crotch which was furthe...
The Gray Day part 1 A poem by Keith Douglas Alford The gray day fading into night, the past sliding away from me, to become just that. The hurt and the pain that blinded and made red, now fades and diminishes and becomes just another moment of heart ache. The longing for a different place, or just another time, have come and gone, replaced by my regrets o...
I'm just a regular guy named Frank with the prerequisite wife, two kids, house with a huge mortgage and a dog. My life has been ordinary- that is, until I met Alexa. My gawd, just saying her name now makes me want to... But wait, I'm getting ahead of myself. Let me tell you how we met. It was my fortieth birthday and my wife had thrown me a little soiree....
aIt was the start of a new semester and Alison Walkers was excited. This always meant a new fresh start for her, and this was especially important this semester since Alison was starting her nursing clinical. Alison cared tremendously about her school work. She desired to become the best nurse she could be, and this semester was her chance to prove it! Ali...