Chapter 3 A Backward Glance Toronto 2010 "What do you mean you're going to quit your job?" Andrea snapped. "How will you support us? You can't afford to quit." "Andrea, I genuinely dislike my job. I'm going back to Hunter and do some feature writing. I'll still have a job," he said, wearying of her constant money talk. "Does it pay as well as College Pu...
Eve flung the door to her apartment open and stumbled inside glancing around quickly and finding it empty. Of course it was empty her husband was out job hunting after his recent layoff and so was her mother-in-law. It was just her arriving from her hotel job and unbuttoning the red blazer and tossing it onto the back of the black leather sofa that dominated...
I arrived home and found a note taped to the door. Following the instructions that said "read me first", I opened it up and saw, "Dearest. I plan on collecting on your loss tonight. Take off all your clothes, then send me a picture so I know you complied." I had lost our last words with friends game by 125 points and owed my mistress my body to use as she w...
Evan was in his "Drawing I" class that afternoon after work. He was sketching a very clichéd bowl of fruit. That particular class wasn't teaching him much that he didn't already know but he was determined to do a good job anyway towards the completion of his Associates Degree. He wasn't sure what he planned to do with it but he needed something to focus on b...
Day 1 "Will ya give it a rest?" Phylis says, the look of utter impatience on the old elf's face. Without access to the well, she ages like fruit. Elves are known for their near-immortality, but that's only given to those who can afford it. The well of life may be sacred ground and is limitless, but it still has a price. At least to the Supreme Counselor, an...
Dough, cash, bucks, scratch, dollars, pesos, script, moolah, marigolds, macaroni, bacon, bread, greenbacks, coin, smackers, C-notes, yards, Benjamins, sawbuck, double sawbuck, fin, cabbage, clams, bill, wad, whatever you call it, and by now you know it, I'm writing about money. We all want it but so few of us have it. Money is the most common, yet elusive d...
CUCKOLD REVENGE I felt good when my marriage to Cal Fielding had passed the infamous 'seven year itch' mark. Although I, Loretta, had received my share of male attention over the years, appropriate and inappropriate, I was not seriously tempted at any time. The fact that I had an attentive, compassionate, loving husband helped considerably. Although I had v...
Rebecca's husband came home one night in a very morose and agitated mood. "Whats the matter with you?" she asked him not too sympathetically, He looked at her with forlorn eyes, "I'm in trouble," he said sadly, I'm relying on you to get me out of it." "ME?" Rebecca asked, "What trouble are you in and what can I do about it?" Roger, her husband, went to t...
This is a 2013 Halloween Contest entry. Please vote. Father always warned me to avoid the fathomable places where mundanes may roam. I'm a wild creature and never heed. Danger excites me. Humans perversely intrigue me. I've explored the threshold of my pond countless times. The orange red lances of fading light mesmerized me with reflections on the water....
What if we did this or what if we did that? What would happen then? I can just see and hear these old, Caucasian, billionaire men talking over lunch, over dinner, over drinks, in their homes, on vacation, on the golf course, on a plane, in their cars, and at the office about us, the middle class. What makes us, ordinary people, blue collar and white collar...