I woke up to the thud of the landing gear touching down at the airport in Phoenix. Despite sleeping for the three-hour flight from Chicago down to Arizona, I was still exhausted. But I smiled at the view out the plane's window. The cloudless sky was bluer than I had ever seen it. The sun was bright, the heat radiating from the runway as it baked the paveme...
Let me start by saying I love teachers. Many of my dearest friends are teachers. Y'all have a depth of patience that I cannot begin to fathom. This story came about in 2014. Several nights in a row the news told me of some new case of a teacher messing with a student. Ten cases, eight were perpetrated by females. Even as I wrapped the story up news broke of...
Being a homeworker makes being told I can't leave the house and must work from home that much easier. I work in advertising and I'm responsible for some publicity that you'll remember. About four months before I'd split up with my partner of six years, school teacher Nicky who had decided that after all of that time and our gorgeous son Michael we were whol...
September 17th, 2019 Dear Diary, Where to start? How about I can't stop smiling? How about I've never been so thoroughly fucked in all my life? How about for the first time in years I feel wanted, desirable, and do I dare say it... sexy? My pussy was so sore this morning I could barely walk, but damned if I can't wait for Ryan to get here so we can do it...
The Houseboat Adventure As I have probably mentioned previously, Liz was not always as cheerful as she might have been, suffering from unprovoked mood changes for no apparent reason on many occasions when in our presence. The Tuesday night she came up to visit Helen and I at our unit, just after we had finished having supper was not to be one of those times...
Murder and fire; ruin and damnation. Roland trailed along the perimeter of the inner wall in heedless flight as the world around him burned. His lungs wheezed and his chest palpitated from the effort. He had retraced his steps through the gutted hovels as he watched the ruin of the Cultist's home play out before him. Madness stalked the streets, gibbering mo...
CHAPTER 9 The honeymooners returned to find the drought had broken, and the land throughout the Province of Marlborough at the top eastern end of the South Island of New Zealand was slowly regaining its greenness. Next morning, at their first morning tea as a household of three, Matt had just sat down. Patricia was pouring tea to eat with their scones whe...
Edited by: Pat & Arthur A long and bumpy road to love. **** CHAPTER 1 It was a day I'll never forget. I had gone into my parents' bedroom to look for something. I don't remember what I was looking for, but I remember what I found. There was a wooden box in the bottom drawer of my mother's vanity, hidden under some of her things. Inside there was a p...
Fair warning, this is going to be a long one. I need the space to develop all of the characters that come and go through the story. As you can probably tell from the title I adapted the idea from Hemingway. His characters have major nerd tendencies and I find that interesting. I write about places where I've been and things that I've done. That's the case...
Chapter 16 – Decision Time Scott remembered the words of Lucretius, another Roman poets and philosophers. 'Then, if the lady is goodhearted and void of malice, it is up to you in your turn to accept unpleasant facts and make allowance for human imperfection.' Had Mary's acts been driven by vicious or vindictive motives he would have dealt with the matter...