All in all, Sheriff Creech was kind of looking forward to retirement. It was a lovely mid-May and ending his decades of service to Putnam, Kentucky just in time to be able to spend Christmas with Elaine and her boys - his grandchildren. He was smiling just thinking about it as he leaned back at his desk. Plenty of good memories with this town, he almost hate...
NOTES My name is Barbara McPherson, and I'm here in this Starbucks Coffee Shop to meet with Nancy Roberts, my father's former home health nurse. Dad passed away last month, and Mom has been gone for about a year. I was already sitting at a table with my coffee when I saw Nancy come in. I waved and she waved back, and then went to the counter to order her...
God bless middleclass Americans because no one else will. * The consequences of this recession, soon to be depression, living life as an American citizen, God, baseball, and apple pie are replaced by unemployment, homelessness, and despair. When God doesn't answer our prayers, when Americans can no longer afford to go to a baseball game, when apple pie is...
Lori had finally had enough of working and retired 9 months before her 65th birthday. The biggest impact to her life was all the free time she now had at home with her husband Paul. He had been home for a while and had routines while she was at work. Paul had developed several routines which helped him maintain the house since he had extremely poor vision....
This story was written by request of a readers fantasy. * My name is Keena and I work the evening shift at a retirement home. It was just like any other day, I got ready for work in my white shoes, stockings and nurses smock. I headed off to work like any other day except that this was my last day to work there. I was going to be moving and changing jobs....
Thanks to LadyCibelle and Techsan for editing this story. They are the best! * I want to take responsibility for my actions. I guess I could try to blame someone else but in the end it was my doing. So I am going to set up a tape recorder that can be used as evidence. Here it goes. I turned on the tape recorder and began my story. My wife Marti and I have...
I WANT TO ONCE AGAIN THANK MY EDITOR "WIRES" FOR HIS EDITING AND IDEAS ON THIS STORY. HIS EFFORTS MAKE MY SUBMISSIONS MUCH BETTER AND MORE READABLE. ***** Three weeks after Baghdad was taken things were still dangerous but were calming down somewhat. Platoon Sergeant (PSG) Thomas Simms was with his Platoon Leader 2Lt (Second Lieutenant) Marvin Paul inspect...
I’m sure most people will remember the summer of 1976 for its long, hot, sunny days. Indeed it was the best summer in Ireland for many years but for me (and my lovely wife Kay) it was the season we both first discovered our true natures and assumed our natural roles in our relationship. At that time we had been married seven months, but hadn’t established w...
Two quick ways of being fired in our company are being caught screwing the chairman's wife or grossly fiddling personal claims for reimbursement of work-related expenses. The third way is ignoring a particular memorandum to all heads of departments four pages long which, in effect, states get caught screwing a subordinate and you'll face the firing squad....
I answered the phone and my little sister was frantic. "Bill you have to come over right away. You were so right and I was so wrong. He's gone to the NASCAR race with his buddies an hour ago and he left his phone. You gotta come over now, please?" "OK, I'm on my way and I'll be there in about 10 minutes. You'll be OK till there?" I've never heard Barb as up...