Many thanks to snowbear for editing this story I have learned a hard lesson about how easy an average man's daily life can turn into a real mess. When the events in this story began a few years ago my family consisted of my wife Anne (age 38) me Larry Dragonhjelm (42) with our children Angelica (8) and Elliot (6). Though were not the very happiest family in...
At the age of 32 I was really satisfied with my life. Living in a small Scandinavian town together with and engaged to a pretty 29 ears old girlfriend with whom I had a five years old son. A nice house in a good neighborhood, successful business in my own bricklaying company with four employees. Julia and I had been living together for six years now and had...
The first time Madeleine and I looked at each other's eyes was in the hotel breakfast restaurant in a small Scandinavian town. She gave me a sweet smile, which I remembered the whole day. There was dance in the hotel bar in the evening and I got a happy feeling when I found her there. During our first and only dance I offered her a drink, which she accepted....
Many thanks to Angel Love for editing this story. * My name is Raymond Dahl. For many reasons I'm an average Scandinavian guy though most people would regard me as an unusually lucky guy until I became involved in serious problems. At the age of thirty-eight I had most of what people dreamed about. I was proud to have two nice daughters, a lovely wife, nic...
Dave Valerta stared at his wife sitting across the room from him, stunned by what she had said. How could his wife of eighteen years and the mother of his children say something like that to him? "Don't look at me like that Dave. It's your own damned fault. It had happened the night of Diane's sister's birthday party. At the last minute a problem had come u...
This story is complete fiction and represents a departure from my usual style. My hubby and I collaborated on this piece going down a dark road. Hope you like it. As always, constructive criticism is requested and welcomed. They say there are signs when your spouse is unfaithful. "They" are right, I just missed them till it was too late. My name is Robert,...
This is a rather dark, bleak tale. There's an element of truth in this one. (Though changed to protect the guilty.) If you do not like dark, bleak non-stroke stories, please read no further for your own sake. He brushed the dirt from his hands and looked down at the grave of his only son, Simon. Dead at twelve from a particularly aggressive form of cancer f...
I sat on a folding chair and watched the twins as they played field hockey and I couldn't help but wonder how the coming upheaval was going to affect them. Knowing them as well as I did I thought that they would probably handle it better than I was. They were pretty resilient and a lot more mature than you would expect a pair of sixteen year olds to be. As I...
How to Tell if Your Spouse is Having an Affair? For the last 15 years I have worked as a corporate security consultant. It's an alternately exciting and terribly boring job. Most of my stories that I've written for this site have stemmed from my experiences at work and those same experiences have taught me a lot about human behavior and weakness. Because s...
I really didn't know why I was there. I didn't feel like drinking, but I needed to get out and do something. Sitting around the house and whining about how life had treated me wasn't getting me anywhere. I used to enjoy open microphone night at the Landing Strip and maybe a few laughs would help. I looked around as I came in and I saw that there were some p...