Recently, I learned that Sammy, whom I had coached in baseball back when he was a boy of 14, had died in 1998 of AIDS. He apparently contracted HIV when he and his wife were having problems and had separated for a while. Thankfully, neither she nor his children became infected. Following is one of the many Sammy stories that I tell, but the one that always...
Monday 18th January 1999, Portsmouth University Lecture Theatre AM I watched as the new cohorts filed into the lecture theatre and took up their seats. Among them was Elizabeth who sat in the same seat that Michelle occupied back in October. The first slide is already on display showing the arresting title, 'World History - Sacrifice and Torture in the earl...
I have crossed the broad ocean and I am now in a new country. I have left the country of my birth and the country where I grew to become a man, and I have left the country where the woman named Catherine reared me as her own son. But she was not my mother and I am now in my mother's country. For my mother is Alexandra Cain and I am Alex Cain, but I do not kn...
Janette had a trying day at work. She came home feeling frustrated and out of sorts but didn't know what to do about it. She didn't feel like cooking dinner for Allan, so she just sat on the sofa with a drink and listlessly thumbed through a magazine. Allan was due home in a half hour and she would deal with dinner then. She was about through with the scotc...
Think of this story as taking place in a parallel dimension where everything is the same as our world except for... The Pin. Heather Johnson and her mother were casually walking into the supermarket early Saturday morning. "Mom, we don't need to get a cake. I'm not a kid anymore." "I know, honey. You're eighteenth birthday is the most important day in...
Kate was my neighbor, the girl next door. She was 3 years older than me and she had an amazing body. All my childhood whenever I got the chance I just used to check out her body, especially her ass. Her ass was nothing I had (or have) ever seen, it was perfectly shaped. It was big enough to make your jaw drop but not too big like chicks' butts in hip-hop mus...
From the other side of the world she had come. Unannounced. They had written to each other of course – two or three flippant e-mails. Nothing more. They had never previously met. Yet, from his silent greeting to the way he held the door open for her and the way she entered without hesitation, one would have thought that this was a daily routine. It certain...
It's a quiet, hot day in my top floor apartment. The massive leather couch sits in the corner next to the balcony doors. They must be about 8 feet high and 12 feet wide, creating a massive window onto the buzzing city of Bangkok. The doors are open fully, letting in a delicious breeze and carrying in all the sounds of the megalopolis. I bring my rope in fro...
She woke up with the moon shining through the window onto her bed. The moonlight cast glowing shadows across the room, reminding her of an underwater seascape. She ran her right hand down her body, starting at her chest, moving down her right breast, pausing at her nipple and fingering it softly. Her breast felt soft, full, and supple under her warm winter c...
He puts his hand on her back and walks her to the front door and opens it. While doing this he stops and tells her, "I will open all of your doors and move out all your chairs. Do not deny me this privilege." They go to his truck and remembering what he just said knowing this is a door she waited. "Very good, that did include vehicle doors. When you are...