The alarm clock showed a time of 11:38 p.m. as Wes turned out the lamp next to his bed. He and his wife Deborah had just finished making love, and she was already fast asleep, weary from the toils that come with being a secretary and a mother of three. He was bushed, too, from another day at the rat race that was sales. Still yet, Wes could not fall asleep...
Meeting Hannah that afternoon was one of those bizarre events that convinced me how important it is to say "yes" to life, to be open to what presents itself and to not have expectations. I hadn't been to New York City in over twenty years, and in fact, rarely leave my off the grid cabin in Maine for any cities. I shop at a local food co-op in our small town,...
Part 1 He was sat on the sofa, turning the pages of his book with one hand while holding it with the other. A great battle played out in his mind, driven by the words before him, and he was almost lost in this literary world. Almost. Throughout the last few pages he had sunk deeper and deeper, his mind taken far away from reality until he was practically dr...
A cold wind blew against Jamie’s back, as she pushed her key into the door lock hurriedly and turned it, feeling the warm heat on her face when she opened the door. The store was completely dark and always seemed very large and ominous, upon her early arrival each morning. She habitually reached for the light switches, and as she flipped each one on, the lig...
Thanks to Softouch911, again, for being a fantastic editor and friend! * My grandmother had a bookmark when I was growing up that said: "Celebrate freedom. Read a banned book." The irony never escaped me; while we have free press, we also have people who exercise their freedoms by protesting, and banning, the words of others. My grandmother celebrated he...
Positive thinking versus negative thinking, it's all in your attitude. Hi, I'm Paul Thomas. My friends call me PT because those are my initials and because I'm a new disciple of Roger Evans and his quasi religion of positive thought. I bought his franchise for fifty thousand dollars. I used the inheritance received from when my Dad died to buy it. Through v...
Author's Note: Hello! I hope you enjoy my story! I haven't written anything before but hopefully you still enjoy it. I'm planning on doing a big, multipart series with both plot and sex. I'd like to see if I can get any good reviews before committing though. Anyways, enjoy! Mark almost didn't hear the piercing wail of his alarm clock through his dream. H...
This novelette is coming about because my wife reads these types of stories. She buys them on Amazon, and I know about them because I then get "recommended reading for me" from Amazon, with similar themes. My wife is a totally rational human being who would never, ever, in a million years, enjoy the reality, but loves the fantasy. We've played a little with...
Reading Arianna Huffington's most recent book, "On Becoming Fearless," a book specifically oriented toward helping we women overcome our fears, led me to write a column about fears specific to men. It has also led me to recall the first volume the prolific Huffington ever penned, "The Female Woman." She was Arianna Stassinopoulos then, a Greek expatriate liv...
She must have been crazy. That was the only explanation. She must have been crazy to have done what she did. "Dr. Chalkey?" "Yes, Detective Morris?" "May I see the text he was looking at?" "It's being cared for right now. You don't understand what the oils and dirt of human hands does to ancient paper like that … " "Do you have a copy of it? Something t...