The young man beside her was silent, lost in his own morose thoughts. Ginny concentrated on the icy highway in front of them, a hint of apprehension gripping her as they approached the Eisenhower Tunnel. Even though she had lived in the Rockies for sixteen years and made the drive from Vail to Denver weekly, this particular stretch of Interstate 70, approach...
A Master Without A Sword: I As I lay face down on my bed and cried, I heard my mother walk up the stairs and enter the room. 'Hey, what's the matter?' she asked as she walked over and sat next to me on the bed, then reached out and stroked my hair. 'I'm fucking useless!' I cried into the pillow in reply. 'No you're not,' she said, 'you just need some sm...
I. It Begins in Turtle Creek and Everything Burns Virginia twirled her grandmother's silver pendant between her slim fingers, cursing herself under her breath, wondering how she would tell Lauren about her betrayal. The pendant hung from her neck, dangling between her breasts, a gift from her dead grandmother, and Virginia had a habit of playing with it whe...
Chapter Four Fetish At 2 AM, Charlene woke up in pain. Her legs were cramped, trying to pull themselves closed against the ropes. Moaning in pain, she was unable to do anything but ride it out, letting the cramp torture her until it eased. Through it all, George slept beside her, unknowing. It was only when it had passed that she thought, "Why didn't I wak...
(A Thyrsus was a staff entwined with ivy and surmounted by a pine cone in the cleft at its end. It was used by those engaged in Bacchic rites.) Part 1 A cry through the heat alerted Marie to the discovery of something of importance. She looked up and wiped the sweat from her forehead and moved carefully over the gritty dirt surface of the hill. She slippe...
It was mid October 2007. I was working at the shop during the week when I got a visit from my boss. He told me he was going to France at the weekend to watch the rugby world cup final in Paris. He told me that his wife was annoyed with him as it was the first weekend he had had off in a while and he was spending money that he should have been saving going of...
There are two routes that take me to the railway station. One is a leisurely stroll through the park if the weather is kind and time allows, and the other if I'm running late, is a short cut through a broad avenue of upmarket properties. Today I was late and walking briskly, trying to ignore the affluence of the well-heeled residents living in the avenue. '...
The first e-mail was one I would not normally read but for some reason I did and it started the whole downslide of my nineteen-year marriage. It was from Gloria25632 at a popular web site and for some reason I opened it and it read: "Your wife is really not working on Wednesday nights and Saturdays as she claims." I read it twice and then sent off a reply to...
Family Guy Redux, I Handed Her the Divorce Papers and Everything Went Downhill. Cpete wrote Family Guy, a more or less predictable cheating wife story. With cpete's permission I have bowdlerized the first part of his story almost beyond recognition as a lead in to my idea of an ending. I have kept the character of Mark, who's not too bright as cpete created...
Chapter Four More Turns in the Road After he got past Ginger, as if he could, Steve went back to work. Not just for Ginger's or Leah's but for his own sake he wanted to make the hospice thing a real success. Occasionally he reflected on his days before he lost Leah. He'd been so happy, but he'd been living in a fool's paradise. Sure he'd had fun, but he'd...