Desperation leads to disaster. It forces you to leave the safe cocoon you have built over the years and venture out into the wild. Desperation would even make you forget—if only for a short moment—that you shouldn't expose your ugliness to the world. Desperation might also make you forget the ugliness of the world itself. Millie Foster took one look at the...
Millie escaped the murky atmosphere at street level by disappearing into the hellhole that was the Bedford-Nostrand subway station. Like every morning for the past two months, she was running late for work. Not that tardiness created anxiety. A lifetime of stable employment at a profitable, family-owned stationery emporium was practically guaranteed. The Ort...
readyforprimetime This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, businesses, places, events and incidents are either the products of the author's imagination or used in a fictitious manner. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events is purely coincidental. This story originally appeared as Melissa's Legacy, and was written around V...
1986, Yorkshire, England. Part one Chapter 1 It was around 11am I received the phone call that turned my life upside-down. "Edward, it's for you", my mother shouted from the hall. "A girl." Who this mystery female caller could be, I had no idea. My mother handed me the receiver with that knowing wink only a mother could give to her son. "Hello?"...
Hello all! This update unfortunately does not have an editor...(sad face). So I've been wanting to get this out & get this lovely little twist out there for you all to read, comment, like, love, hate, make snarky statements about, etc. LOL. I have some issues with this one, but i'll let you all let me know how you feel about this update. I hope it is wo...
What attracted me to... Linda Groves at first was the hair on the arms. The blonde that worked with me at my part-time job at the grocery store during my first year of college was not extraordinary looking in any other way, but one look at her arms got my attention right away. Her slender arms had a profuse growth of hair on them that grew from just above...
Linda's mother had been spectacular, so much so that I practically forgot about Linda. We kept seeing each other, but when I was with her I found myself thinking about her Mom. After all, it was an competition of sorts. While the 18 year old Linda had the advantage of youth and was more classically attractive than her mother, Millie had experience and the f...
"The FHA inspector's here for your meetin', Hal," said the secretary over my cell phone. I was away from the office, checking on foundation work done that week in a 100 home government-funded housing development my company was building in Tennessee for victims displaced by Gulf Coast hurricanes. This was the third Friday meeting I'd had with the inspector...
Sorry, I wanted to get it out for Halloween so it's a little rushed. ************ Halloween is one of my favorite holidays; Trish, my wife, and I always get invited to the best parties. "Honey, I'm home!" shouted Trish, my wife. It was Friday and I just got home from work myself. "What did you buy?" I asked as I walked into the living room. "My boss...
Author's note: This story follows in timeline from the previous story TOYBOY. It stands alone as a story, however. It is not necessary to read TOYBOY first. Toyboy Hits the Road 1986, Yorkshire, England. Part One Chapter 1 Eight weeks had passed since, from my bedroom window, I saw for the first time a stunningly beautiful, dark haired woman, more...