She stirred. I opened my eyes and glanced at her: Tracy, my neighbor, my fantasy, now my reality. As I watched her, a relaxed and contented look on her beautiful face, my mind thought back over the past several weeks. We had been neighbors for eighteen years, living four houses apart. As neighbors, we often waved as we drove by in the car or said "Hi" as w...
When Greg and Shelia bought their home in the suburbs of Southern California five years ago, they were delighted with their purchase. Their neighborhood was quiet, and when they eventually had kids, it would be a perfect place to bring them up. They had great neighbors, with the exception of the dysfunctional family to their right, the Samsons. Nobody in th...
My wife and I were supposed to meet some friends for a nice dinner before we got together at their place. Etiquette required my wife to wear a short stylish skirt and an almost see thru blouse. She really looked great. Well, for some reason or other our friends cancelled at the last minute. So after dinner we took a walk around town. As we walked among the...
I was DOA - dead on arrival. Really. I have the medical records to prove it. My story was all over the news. I appeared on the nationally syndicated talk shows. Everyone loved the part about how the ambulance crew was leisurely wheeling me to the morgue after the car crash. I suddenly sneezed and sat up, scaring the life out of them. A publisher offered me...
Our next door neighbors were having an "adults only" birthday party and invited us, our close neighbors, people from their church, and other friends to attend. For the first few hours of the party we were catching up with our neighbors that we barely saw all winter and met a few new people and overall it was turning out to be a really good time. We were hang...
If only our neighbors knew what my wife Paula and I do on our weekends when our kids are gone to the grandparents or wherever we send them to give us a little time to ourselves. It's a welcome break and it gives us a chance to pursue a little diversion my wife and I have come to love over the past few years. It would come as a shock if our neighbors knew tha...
This is my first attempt at writing there may be some mistakes. ***** Being new to our block my wife informed me that she wanted to have a little get together with just neighbors and friends. Maybe just snacks and some drinks just to get to know our neighbors. I agree we make the plans buy the food and drinks invite whom we want. The night of the party a...
This part sets up the potential meeting of Jay and his wife, Evelyn, with Rose and Earl, where they find out just what a wide circle of friends the few blocks surrounding them encompasses. Paul Campbell’s car was in the driveway of Jay’s home when he returned from that half-day excursion with Rose. He smiled. Not only because he had sold the car to her, bu...
Please vote. Please give me the support of your vote. I dedicate this story to Walter from Southern California. Author's Note: This is a true story with a happy ending for Jay but a sad ending for Ruth. Even though Ruth was wrong for doing all that she did to Jay, he was wrong for doing all that he did to Ruth. Instead of divorcing early on, they allowed t...
This experience goes all the way back to the 70s when Cathie and I were just married. I had a great job offer, but it required that we move some distance from our families. We moved to a nice neighborhood, and many of the new neighbors were friendly enough; but we both worked so it took a while to get to know people. Two doors down was a couple with grown ki...