Helen and I have been married for 14 years and have two young sons. I'm 34, she's 33, and it seemed like we had the perfect life. At least I thought so. We had reached a point in our sex lives where the passion had waned slightly. We were down to weekends and an occasional week night. I was comfortable with that, but Helen's sex drive was inexplicably beginn...
The phone rang, shrilly in my sleep-gentled ears, and I thumped my hand hard against the bedside cabinet. A more conscious flail on the second ring saw me just missing spilling my water glass over my alarm clock. I got the phone just as the second ring ended. "Hello?" My voice wavered, thick with sleep. The clock told me it was 4am and I felt like it. My h...
Gary Lockett drove all over town in an old Caribbean green top down Chevy looking for Dana Scruer, the dishy girl whom he'd made love to so passionately three weeks ago. Still he couldn't find her after that wonderful event. Now he found himself cruising the country lane, beautiful sights on both sides but he was getting pissed off and nowhere to go. Then su...
Trust Fall Book One of The Trust Trilogy Tess Quince Chapter Five OUTSIDE THE AIR IS WARM and the city seems full of energy. "I've heard about your Fountain Square. Would you show it to me?" "Of course, it's this way." I lead him one block south. We skip up the steps to the square and it's more crowded than a normal weekday night. There's a band on the...
Andre was in love. Not with a woman but with Europe. Like so many others, he had chosen to spend his last summer in college Eurorailing his way across the cultural capitals of the world. He had spent a few days in Paris, before heading over the Swiss Alps. He had loved the music scene in Vienna where he had heard an entire concert of Strauss waltzes played i...
I sat on my haunches beside her favorite chair. The room was quite dark, except for the sliver of light streaming through the almost closed curtain. I have been waiting like this for over an hour. Sitting. Waiting. Anticipating her arrival. She promised me a gift if I did everything to her satisfaction. Like a child in a candy store, my mind filled with a th...
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS: This is for DeeDee, who wanted to see Tyr give up control. * Tyr Anasazi strolled Antolli Drift idly. Having completed the Andromeda's supplies transactions, the crew was on a brief shore leave until delivery was complete. He had made some inquiries and checked in on a few contacts; it was important to keep as many avenues for scheming o...
Seth sat in the fifth row in theater. He watched and was almost mesmerized by the dancing nymph performing on stage. The theater was large, and the ceiling was high. There were several balconies lining the gigantic establishment. A large chandelier hung from the ceiling, emitting a very low light on the audience. Applause rang out across the room as the bal...
Author's note: my undying thanks goes to Copperbutterfly for editing all three chapters of this story and for helping me make it readable and understandable; mostly I am grateful to her for her friendship and encouragement. * The morning after I spent that first night in bed with Carrie, I awoke to a strange feeling. It took me a few seconds to remember th...
Crystal was down in the dumps. She was stuck in a go-nowhere job with not much prospect for the future. Her only ray of hope had been her latest boyfriend but she now knew in her heart he was a looser and the quicker she dumped him the better off she would be. Was she a loser too? Not on your life! She took stock of herself. When she looked in the mirror...