On holidays, I like driving into the parking lots of big stores, just to be the only car in the lot, to see the dark-eyed windows, to see how no one goes in and out the doors. The snow falls to the asphalt, breezes across it like a specter. For one day, every large and bumbling thing is still, silent things able to be heard all the noise and clamor limite...
"Bing," went my mobile phone, and up popped a text message from a name I had not seen in a very long time. Megan. "RU in NJ?" Hmmmm...how to answer that simple question. Truth be told, I was in New Jersey, in South Jersey. Cherry Hill to be specific. I worked as an independent IT consultant and had just re-upped on a previously worked project that was hea...
A few summers ago I discovered an island on one of the rivers in our city. I was riding my bike home after work on the bike path one hot day and I left the path, going down though the trees to the riverbank. The area all around, once away from the river and bike path, is an industrial area. So the spot where I was standing was quite secluded and though parti...
I'm not really sure of what made me do it. I think it was because I had received a wedding announcement from a dear high school friend of mine. That got me thinking about my own wedding six years ago. Six years doesn't seem that long to most people, but when you have a child, a mortgage, car payments, long hours at the office for the both of us, time just...
The Beginnings We have needed this night out for a long time. Being married for a few years now, each focusing on our jobs and paying the bills, we have left precious little time for just us. Me working two jobs and you working full time and going to school, it has been a chore. Lately we have been snapping at each other for no reason, both tired every da...
"THE TEMPTATIONS OF TASHA" Tasha entered the dark room, and knelt in the middle of the floor. She was holding a small votive candle, like one used in a church to ask blessings. Dressed in a peach colored silk kimono and tied with a faded red silk rope, she looked at the polished wooden floor before her, afraid to raise her eyes. The kimono clung to her body...
The cold water felt incredible on her perspiration drenched brow. Fumbling around in the dark her hand quickly found light switch to the left of the mirror and flicked it on. Looking into the mirror with new found light illuminated just how red and flushed her terrible nightmare had made her. For moments that seemed like hours she simply stood there until a...
Ben leaned back in his chair and looked at the ceiling. He wasn't seeing the cheap acoustical tiles. He was seeing the glory that was Lori spread open and waiting for him. Last time they got together he pleasured her in the way she wanted. This time it was his turn to call the shots. He checked the housekeeping schedule and found the rooms that would be cle...
I had been a virgin when Kenny first made love to me. It happened following an evening like what you would read about in a novel and we were very much in love. We married less then a year later and settled into the routine of being part of a large family. This was a family of high morals wrapped up in a religion that was the backbone of their principles. Lar...
As Tony drives towards his home in the hills, he muses not for the first time on his life. Semi retired at 50, consulting in the city two days a week. Nice house in Forest Green, the sleepy countrified little hills area which was so different from where they had lived in the city until last year. Nice car, the black Saab he'd always wanted. He is still in OK...