Prologue Mommy was on the cell phone with one the aunties. I have no idea which one but I was still waiting to see if what Daddy said was true. One day Mommy was going to talk her ear off. I wanted to see it. Where would the ear go? I'd tugged on my ears, they seemed pretty stuck on there to me. But every time one of my aunties came over to the house, they...
Dave hates noise. Wanting the noise to stop and wanting everything to be quiet, Dave just wanted some peace. As if her scream was meant for only him to hear and as if the woman's distant scream was amplified and played through a speaker in his ear, her scream was deafening. Assaulting his senses, Dave came to action. With the vision of a marching band and a...
I'm on a typical business trip, staying at a standard expense account hotel. I'm done for the day, relaxing in my room, in my boxers, sitting up in bed in the dark, flipping channels. I hear a muffled sound, like a woman giggling. That has my attention. I get up and start listening through the wall. It's not one woman, it is two, and there is guy in there t...
My great, great grandfather was a wiry young teenager from Scotland who came to America to escape jail for rebelling against the crown. His brogue was so thick that few people could understand him, so he kept moving west until he found himself living as a mountain man in the Sierra-Nevadas. He was a small man who had to make it on skill and his wits because...
John was sitting at work thinking how incredibly horny he was. He knew his new little play thing Cindy would soon be at work to brighten his day but was still in kind of a funk. It was just like any other Saturday at work, kind of slow and laid back. John started thinking about all the time he and his new toy had had together (as little as that was). His min...
She was on vacation when it first happened. Late that evening she fell asleep in the little private villa she'd rented for the week, not thinking anything at all about leaving the back door unlocked. But this was a private vacation club, members only, so she didn't think anything was wrong with that. She was wakened in the middle of the night by someone's t...
"Take off your clothes," I tell you as you walk in to the bedroom. You smile and do as instructed, noting a Mexican blanket from the market in San Antonio covering the floort. On top of the blanket you see the wrist and ankle cuffs, five pieces of rope, and in the middle of it all, the straight backed wooden dining chair we bought last weekend when we were i...
Flora Radisson gets just what she wants when the townsfolk burn her at the stake. "Flora Radisson, under the laws of the Commonwealth of Salem Massachusetts, on this day of our Lord in 1692, I find you guilty of witchery, witchcraft, wizardly, sorcery, and conjuring," said the Honorable Judge Robert Hall. "Do you have anything to say for yourself before I p...
You finally invited me to your home. We line in the sofa looking at each other with not so subdued excitement. I know you are waiting for me to kiss you, so I give you the warmest smile, tend my right hand to your head, and grab your hair hard, pulling your entire body down towards me. I get up without releasing your hair. Get on fours, I say. You appear dis...
Quiet rain soaked the fallen leaves of the garden that lay in late autumn's slumber outside the elegant French doors. Katherine watched as it gathered in small pools on the ground between the naked trees and reflected the light of the three lamps there. She brushed the long brown hair that coursed its way luxuriously down her back. Her thoughts flitted from...