After cleaning up in the shower - which involved a lot of giggling, rubbing and more soap suds than he had ever thought possible - Tom and Kaley towelled off, threw their swimming gear back on and headed out to the beach. "Darryl will get suspicious if I stay here all day." Tom stayed quiet. It was more difficult to stave off his guilt in the light of day....
He watched the bubbles spiraling upwards in the tulip glass, then pressed it to his lips and filled his mouth. The Laurent Perrier exploded in a thousand mingled flavors as it bathed his tongue. "Can it possibly be three years?" he thought to himself. Three years, meeting every other month, would be eighteen encounters like the one that was to follow this...
At the time that this story took place I was engaged to Amy and she was in college. She was 19 and I was 20. She had been babysitting for a mother of twins, a boy and a girl. The mother's name was Katie and she was in her late 30's. Katie had short brown hair and brown eyes, her body had always been hidden beneath sweaters and dress slacks. Katie needed some...
The day was hot and sticky. I watched my daughter run up and down the ramp of the playground castle, down the slide, and back around for more. My son kicked around on the swing and asked for pushes. I gave him his quota of twenty, then told him he needed to swing by himself. The heat made me tired, so I sat on the bench next to one of the moms. She was s...
Immersion Playground Book #2: Arena Chapter 7 Saturday evening, Todd makes a change to the Immersion Playground store front, announcing a call for extras. The notice is discreet, but unknown by Todd, Sunday morning Immersion Playground has more than three hundred interested inquiries in the mailbox he'd set up to receive them. By Sunday evening the number...
Immersion Playground Book #2: Arena Chapter 6 Rick and Giselle enter the offices of Immersion Playground just before nine, thirty minutes prior to Coy and Sierra's scheduled arrival. While Giselle opens doors, Rick juggles a selection of bagels and fruit, along with several flavors of coffee and teas, plus apple and orange juice. He didn't know what break...
Jessie had been moping around the big lonely house all afternoon. There were two hours of beautiful light left on this early July evening. Looking outside just made her feel more trapped and more lonely. Living in Mom's house was a bitch and getting bitchier. She could still hear her mom's angry tones from last week. "Again you have disrespected me and deval...
I was chatting with my girl (she is near my age, 50s) and it nearing the time she had to go and take her shower, I not wanting her to go just yet, pictured in my mind beads of sweat on her body, and so I started writing my thoughts of them to her here's what became of that. The name came from her first remark. ************ I'm picturing beads of sweat ru...
The weather, here in the Pacific Northwest has been beautiful the past several days, allowing my wife, Deb, and me to set on our front porch, watching neighbors walking by. We see the same groups, and sometime overhear their conversations. We are usually reading a book, either the newest Daniel Silva thriller, or another new James Patterson book. There is...
It had been a long week. I was looking forward to the weekend as I headed home on Friday night. We would usually go out for a meal and a drink after work on a Friday and I was heading home to take a shower and get dressed for our evening. He was already home when I got there. I would normally meet him in town so it was a little unusual to see his car in the...