I was carrying a load of cloths on hangers, the final trip until tomorrow morning when I was leaving in the RV for warmer climates. As I left the garage I spied Lee walking down the road, hands in her jacket pockets, head down against the cold breeze. "It's a cold walk today." I commented. She looked up and came over to the end of the drive. "It is. I not...
Copyright 2011 by madengineer3 This is based upon the true story of a friend of mine. Most of the major details are true. Enough has been changed to protect the identity of the people involved. * You could have called me a typical middle class man with some real emotional issues. My name is John, and I was working in a medium sized city as a "white collar...
There he stood at the pulpit. The mugginess hung heavy in the swampland air. He wondered if this is what hell felt like as he scanned the singing congregation. Pentecostal blue grass music was playing in the background. He blinked hard as his eyes crossed over the blonde in the back row. She was new; there was no mistaking that. Bright red hair ruby red lips...
The Preachers Wife. (Young wife escapes suffocating life.) I was carrying a load of cloths on hangers, the final trip until tomorrow morning when I was leaving in the RV for warmer climates. As I left the garage I spied Lee walking down the road, hands in her jacket pockets, head down against the cold breeze. "It's a cold walk today." I commented. Startl...
There comes a point in your life when I think we become too old to learn new things, at least that's the way it is for me. I'm beginning to think that maybe I'm getting too old to make new friends as well, because this last attempt didn't work out too well, as I think this story will explain. *** 1. The invitation. It started out as what I had assumed was...
"Honey, I think that it's time that we have a talk," my wife blurted out of the blue, as we lay in our bed. Wow ... I thought. Those are the cliché "kiss of death" words, of course. The "Dear John" intro words. In wifespeak, every guy knows that the missus means, "I'll tell you some bad news and then you can react." Never a good opening phrase, of course....
Hi! My name is Melanie James. I'm thirty eight years old. My husband, Dr. Alvin James M.D., is fifty five, We have been married for eighteen years now. This my first marriage, his second. We live with our sixteen year old daughter, Samantha, in a comfortable two story colonial house on the edge of a small Ohio Town. From his first marriage, Alvin also has a...
When someone tells you all the days of your life that you're less than, that you're inferior and worthless, you tend to believe them. Yet as surely as God made the day and night, it's your duty to fight back and prove, if only to yourself, that you're worth something. My name is Malakeh "Mala" Saint-Gabriel ( nee Zafari ) and I am a young woman of Persian de...
"I'm glad you called to let me know you were going to be late last night, Tommy," Aunt Karen told the young man Monday morning while they ate breakfast. "That was so polite of you." She gave her daughter a rather stern glance as she said it. "Come on, Mom, don't start on that call if you're going to be late stuff already," Kim said, a pretty pout on her fac...
I smelled the coffee. I wondered who had made the delivery today. I opened my eyes and saw that the light was on in my bathroom. Neither Rita nor Camille was still in the bed. I rose up and peered across the room toward the bathroom but couldn't see if anyone was in there. Nature was calling at a great rate, so I dragged myself into the bathroom and found Lo...