Sometime during the night, Eleanor had slipped off Robert and had gotten up to turn out the lamp and return to bed. She had pulled a single sheet over them and had happily wrapped an arm over her new lover and held him close. He snored softly and she thought how nice it was to have a real man in her bed after all these years. Her mind wandered for a few minu...
This is the conclusion to Sarah's story. A special thank you to LadyCibelle and Techsan for their editing. Chapter 5: Ray Speaks. Where do I begin? I found the true love of my life. Sarah and I just seemed to hit it off from the get go. We started by just dating to see how compatible we were. We found out we loved a lot of the same things: movies, musi...
Chapter 1: Making it with Becca I used to spend a lot of time working out of town. Some people said I should have just moved, and maybe they were right. All of that time away from home, while not a root cause, ended up contributing to the inevitability of my divorce. Fortunately, I got to know people in most of the places where I worked out of town, and s...
Mayuri Joshi alighted from the crowded train at Thane and quickly moved aside. She always wondered how so many women could fit in one compartment. She walked out of the platform towards the auto stand avoiding bumping into as people as possible. She saw that already there were at least 100 people in the queue for auto. She joined at the end. Once she had joi...
Jack sits motionless trying not to gag from the strong smell of the odd thin man who is arguing loudly over the phone and paying little attention to the road. The language the driver is using is completely foreign to him, and Jack feels that fate has somehow placed him in this cab ride from hell. As he tries to tone out the arguing driver Jack tells himself...
Trish poured herself another cup of coffee and opened her door to get her Sunday paper. "Damn, not again," Trish hissed. This was the second week in a row her paper was not delivered, or was taken by someone. She decided enough was enough, she was going to call the paper on Monday and find out what was going on! As Trish finished her coffee, her mind was re...
Andy pulled his expensive car into the driveway in front of the old Victorian house and cut the engine. He sat there in the car for several long minutes. He could feel his heart beating heavily in his chest, and there was a distinct level of anxiety making his breathing faster. At thirty six years of age he had been faithfully married for just over ten yea...
Their first week back they were both very anxious to hear each other's voices on a daily basis, so their phone calls back and forth became routine. Annie was working a lot of night shifts and trying to sleep in the day, and they usually talked in the late afternoon. Robert was busy too, but he was fortunate that his business didn't run on set hours, and he c...
Melvin's first clue that something was different happened as he rode the elevator to his office, his brain running numbers and fractions and percentages like a human calculator. About halfway to his floor, on the verge of adding profit margins mentally, he noticed the woman standing next to him sneaking sly glances in his direction. She was a middle-aged w...
Jake had just gotten home from work late Friday afternoon. He would only have a few hours before it was time to go out and play with his band at Neon's. Michael, the drummer, also booked the band and had been trying to get them into Neon's for a long time. Since it was such a popular nightspot, all the local bands were trying to get in. Despite the competiti...