DEAR READER...I KNOW I SAID "THE END", BUT THESE CHARACTERS CONTINUED TO LIVE IN MY HEAD, SO I AM SHARING THEM WITH YOU, AS THEY GET TO KNOW ONE ANOTHER. Desi and Scott held hands and floated in the pool, enjoying the hot sun on their bare bodies. They began to talk, playing a game. She said a word, he responded with his first thought. She was pleased with...
A Night at the Opera She had been waiting for this night, it had taken many months of preparation, especially her gown. She had spent many hours on the design and then sewing to get it just right; the soft silk of the skirt, with its long deep folds, barely made a sound as she walked. He placed his hand on the small of her back as they walked up the grand...
I'd been nervous about getting home since I left this morning. Dreading it actually. It was half tempted to find some errand I needed to run, just to stall, delay the inevitable. But I knew what was good for me; keeping you waiting would only make it worse. Now, walking home from campus as slowly as I could justify, I replayed last night's events over and ov...
There are no underage characters in this story. All characters are over the age of 18-years-old. Buyer beware. Are Chinese piano accordions any good or are they all bad? The good, the bad, and the truth about Chinese accordions. Something you may or may not know about me from reading my stories but I used to play piano and my four, much older brothers all...
Everything was on the line. It was 11:29 pm, and the executives at ABS were profoundly nervous. The debut edition of their live comedy program, "Rough Sketch," would hit the airwaves in just one minute, and the suits feared a disaster. "Rough Sketch" was ABS's effort to go head-to-head against "Saturday Night Live," and the trade magazines thought the idea...
Something had to give. This once a month stuff was getting old in a hurry. When we'd first gotten together, some twenty years ago, three or four times a week of at least making it once a night was the norm. Now I was lucky if I'd get to get up close and personal once or twice a month. And it was not like we kissed and frolicked for an hour with me exploding...
The ladies in the spacious room stirred, gathering around the raised platform, taking seats on padded chairs, or kneeling in ever-attentive postures of submission. A woman of slight build stepped up, medium height She was, Her hair dark and cut short. Another woman, a foot taller, followed Her, with long dark blonde hair framing an attractively strong boned...
The heat of summer had settled in the small apartment, stagnant from a week's worth of broken AC. Luke ran one hand through his coarse dark hair and took a drag of his cigarette with the other. His best friend Oliver sat in a soft round chair in the corner of the room with his knees pulled to his chest texting furiously on his phone. Luke heaved out a sigh a...
1 It had been a fairly miserable day so far for a Saturday – and it was nearly over, too. The vacation was nearly over, for that matter – this was the last weekend but one before she would have to go back to school. And where were her friends? None of them were answering their phones, it was like they were avoiding her or something. It was enough to make Lu...
Being shy most of my life I was looking for something new to happen in my life. When I saw the ad for a Cruise for singles only on a large private yacht I felt this could be for me. I called to make arrangements and after getting the dates put in for vacation time. Now it was just a matter of waiting. I spent every night after work shopping for things to we...