I was a bit nervous about moving out-of-state after finishing my Masters degree in computer science, but the offer I got to work in IT and software development with an insurance company in California was just too good to pass up. I wasn't the most outgoing person, so I was a bit worried about making social connections in a new city. I wasn't ugly or unlikabl...
Chapter 3 Steve hated leaving for work as early as he did, but he had operational meetings starting at 7:30. It wasn't the hated going to work; it was that he hated leaving April. Their love left him feeling peaceful and contented, an emotion he had never felt before. His life had always been about hard work and striving for lofty goals. Being happy, comfo...
Dear reader, this is a slow, long burn, but hopefully it will lend enough interest to keep you reading. I intend for this to be Chapter 1 of 5 or so... * * * * * A New Job * * * * * Losing your management job at 35 is bad, but it's even worse when you lose it because your father-in-law owns the company, so when your wife files for divorce you get the doubl...
A few years ago we became good friends with a local photographer. We love the arts and met her when we bought two framed photos she had taken for our guest bedroom. She specialized in architectural buildings, structure in nature and also human form. She intertwined the two frequently in her work. A few of the works we saw included nude or nearly nude people...
There are no underage characters in this story. All characters portrayed are over 18-years-old. As background for this story, it would help you to read my first story, Internet Dating Safety Warning. ***** Instead, meeting them in a public place, Mom is warned that it's not safe to meet online, blind dates at their home. Recommended by a friend that she r...
People really should be more careful with their property. Take Amanda, for instance, a young woman I know. I won't say she's a close friend of mine, more like a casual acquaintance. She's a lovely young woman, but a bit of a scatterbrain at times. She always seems to be mislaying things. If she's in any group you're with you can be sure that if you find th...
Some people are born idiots. Some have idiocy thrust upon them while others work to become idiots. As a teacher I've seen samples of all three. Jerome is one of those who works at it. I had, reluctantly, let him use one of the school cameras for his media studies assignment. All he had to do was point and shoot. Hopefully even he couldn't stuff that up. Tur...
The 1947 film noir movie, "Lady in the Lake" used the concept of a (mostly) unseen first person protagonist to narrate the story. We've used a similar, though not quite identical, narrator for our tale below. Our narrator is not a nice person; and we've received complaints in the past for having very unlikable people in our stories. If this kind of thing bot...
It was the first Valentine's Day we would actually spend together, and I wanted everything to be perfect. When our relationship began, it was all pictures and emails. It had to be; we lived so far apart that actual visits were few and far between. Back in those days, we longed for physicality—for touch. We'd stay up late at night chatting about our desires:...
I would like to thank dianaprince_73 for the proofing of this story. She has been great and very helpful. Bonnie Taylor was a 24 years old with blonde hair and blue eyes. She was a woman who looked like she was hardly 18. When she fell in love and married Bob Taylor she had been dating him for about 14 months. He had asked her to marry him on Christmas Eve...