My wife Karen had a bachelorette party to attend one night and she suggested I have some friends over to play poker. I wasn't sure if this was just a normal suggestion or if it had anything to do with her friend Audrey being in town, as things can get a bit wild with Audrey. There were five of us guys were still playing when Karen and Audrey were dropped of...
I was in a room with seven men, in a really odd situation. I admit, I'm really not an amazing poker player. I'm not terrible, but certainly my skills aren't world renowned. So why did I decide to join an all male game of strip poker? I certainly could have said no - the other girls decided to leave promptly after the suggestion. But some how the strikingly h...
Melissa passed the group of ranch hands playing cards outside by the corral, an ice chest of cold beers alongside them but curiously enough, no piles of money in the ante pot this time. Oh well, maybe they'd just gotten started, she thought as she passed them with just a glance and headed inside to tend to her mare. If she had really known what they were w...
Every husband knows not to just show up early without a call to the wife. No man ever wants to take a chance she might be doing something you would rather be oblivious to. Happy marriages are all about trust and ignorance. I have never betrayed Patty and I don't believe she has every betrayed me. However, I cannot help to hear my wife moans and the very real...
Lucy stepped out onto the glassed-in lanai of the guest suite. It overlooked the 18th green, and she could see David and his buddies approaching the green. They looked to be in good spirits, but Lucy could not discern if they knew what was waiting for them. She wondered if David had completed his mission. She tried waving to the guys as they walked onto the...
"Oh, darling," Tony Sanderson said to his wife, shaking his whiskey glass and rattling the ice cubes. "Do refresh my Scotch for me, Mrs. Sanderson." "Only too happy to, Father," she said as she happily bustled about getting things ready for his poker friends to arrive. The Sanderson presented the perfect picture of absolute domestic bliss to all those aro...
I was recently sent on a business seminar with another guy I work with named Roy. They sent us to some national park for this meeting. It was out in the middle of nowhere. There wasn't but one restaurant, no bars, malls not anything. The first couple of nights were torture, so I called home and ask Joy to come up and visit. She said she would and when I tol...
My name is Steve and this is my story. I was on assignment for two weeks in Springfield when I received a call from a colleague letting me know he and 3 other colleagues were stopping in Springfield for the night on their way back to our home office. The five of us were to have dinner and maybe play some poker afterwards. We all went to a great local resta...
It was Friday evening, the end of a moderately demanding week at work, and I was looking forward to going out to dinner with my sweet, lovely wife. We had not done this for some time, so I had invited my wife to go out for dinner and have an evening together away from our home, without chores and tasks surrounding us and demanding to be done. Our lives were...
This is a rewrite of 'Vegas', combining both Books. While maintaining the theme, it offers a completely different and fresh take for the main characters. Grateful thanks go to the best editor in the world -- thesoundandfury - not only for his editing, but also for the constant encouragement, suggestions, and for helping me to become a better writer. Chapte...