Throughout the week, we had seen each other only in brief glimpses. We were due for Saturday breakfast together. I awoke early as usual and let her sleep, curled around a ball of covers, red curls spilling around the pillow. I prepared for us bagels with cream cheese and grape jam, bacon, juice and coffee. If my stirring in the kitchen did not awaken her,...
Tamro sat in high synchronous orbit. His ship was the apex of his race's genius: it was the height of symbiotic engineering, totally enmeshing its occupant in a womb that kept it alive and in good health indefinitely. Its tough exterior was unscarred by the small space debris that glanced off occasionally, and it would automatically avoid any larger hazards...
Toys You arrived at the mall in the early afternoon. You had called Lynn to arrange it. She met you inside the door. Even though you had shared such a naughty, intimate experience last week, she maintained that slight professional aloof. Oh, she was warm. She winked at you. But she called you "Miss." She shook your hand, she didn't hug you. Remembering ho...
"John, may I ask you a question?" I picked my head up from my desk to see the always welcome vision of Candace Bosch standing in my office doorway. Candace was an assistant buyer for women's dresses in the department store, undoubtedly the hottest of the hotties who worked in the main office. I was the distribution manager whose primary responsibility was t...
As I lay there on my back, eyes staring numbly at the early morning summer sky, the enormity of what Lana had just spoken gave me an instant replay of my life flashing before my eyes...but this time it was Brad who slapped my bottom in the delivery room, Brad who bullied me in third grade and Brad who's tire-sized paw was ushering me into the hereafter. My b...
This is part one of a series where Simon finds being away from home brings some real pleasure. I had stayed at the Yarbrook Bed and Breakfast twice before whilst on courses in the nearby town. The company I worked for couldn't afford the expensive hotels that cost almost three times the rate we were paying at the Yarbrook. Besides, there was something very...
Chapter 3. Putting Things in Context. I carefully slid the rubber band off of the stack of pictures. I shuffled the first picture, the one I had been studying, to the back of the pack. The next picture made me gasp. I was so startled I dropped the stack of pictures into the box and brought my hand to my mouth. It couldn't be! It just couldn't be! [Chapter 1...
A note to readers: This is a long story that unfolds chapter by chapter through the eyes of two protagonists - Mark and Elsa, and as in many of my other stories involves a growing spate of horny characters. Every ten chapters or so I will provide a short summary at the start of that episode to bring new readers up to date (see start of Ch. 40). This story c...
A note to readers: This is a long story that unfolds chapter by chapter through the eyes of two protagonists -- Mark and Elsa, and as in many of my other stories involves a growing spate of horny characters. Every ten chapters or so I will provide a short summary at the start of that episode to bring new readers up to date. This story could appear in a numbe...
Sandy had moved in on Sunday. Monday morning, Mary started keeping secrets. They multiplied fast, and she got better at lying even faster. She was almost proud of it. Mary told her mother her budget wasn't working out after all. Mum was incredibly sweet about it. She wouldn't hear Mary apologize or put herself down. Paying your way through college was hard...