"Another Valentine's Day," mumbled Millie as she slowly walked toward the diner to start her shift, "now I can spend the next six hours smiling, wishing everyone a happy Valentine's Day." There wasn't much to be happy about in Millie's life when at age fifty two, she worked two jobs to make ends meet and save for retirement. She did grin for an instant wh...
Chapter 12: Double Incest Millie Hawley's words, "Tonight is the night," played in my mind all the way home. We had left the New Year's party a few minutes after midnight because Jen was tired. I was a little tired too, but Millie was wide awake. Jen said goodnight and went upstairs to her room. Ed tossed me the keys to her car and reluctantly followed her....
"Well, I suppose this is one interesting way to die," Hugh muttered as he dragged the unconscious guard into the bushes behind the cathedral. The Witch's list had been sufficiently vague that they could improvise to a certain degree, and sufficiently specific that their ultimate goals were clear. The ends were all that mattered, the means... Hugh was just g...
"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...
"I am really sorry, Millie. We just have no other choice, sales are down and with all of the new costs piling up....?" Ben Carter appeared sad as he gave her the bad news. Millicent did understand but it still hurt. After nearly six months on the new job that had taken her a full two months to find, she had barely gotten her feet back under herself again....
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...
This happened when I was about 50 and single. I have been a nudist for years and belonged to a non-landed nudist club here in South Texas. At one meeting I met Millie, a single woman that was about 35 and a teacher. In conversation, I shared that I was going to a city that had some unique items she would love to share with her class and I volunteered to get...
Hi my name is Suzy and my husband is Troy, and our best friends are Millie and David. Troy is the vice captain and David is the coach of a local sports team. This story starts on the night before the big grand finale. The four of us had been out for an early meal at the local pub and then the two guys wanted to call it an early night after talking to each of...
Submission of this chapter was regretfully delayed by circumstances beyond my control. Clarification: "Wetting the babies head!" Celebration that a birth has gone safely and successfully. * For the first three days after Beverley returned from her visit to her sister, I didn't think she suspected a thing. She didn't say anything or act any differently to...
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...