The Bet—Day 4 I slept in the morning of Day 4, a Saturday. When I awoke, sometime around 11, Kat was gone. She left a note: Marvelous evening. I had to go to breakfast with my parents this morning and then to work after that. See you at the Rev's Labor Day Service. Love, Kat "Oh," I groaned. I certainly hope she isn't in love me, I thought. I haven...
Jane waited in the hall outside the room on a cold wooden bench. It was 1860 and a cold day for the summer. The wind howled outside the church annexe in which she sat. This was to be her first birching as most girls never did anything to deserve such a severe punishment... but she had. It was a Sunday. She'd attended church that morning with her family, but...
Tommy's Uncle Dave was away on a sales trip and Kim hadn't gotten home from college yet, so the young man and his aunt were going to be alone until Sunday night. At breakfast Saturday morning, his aunt asked the young man if he'd mind mowing the lawn. Tommy, glad for something to do, happily acceded. "I have some things to do at church," his aunt told him...
It was late by the time I'd seen my last client off and cleaned up. Humming happily to myself, I folded towels and restocked shelves thinking about what the evening might bring. It had been another excellent day at my dream job and it wasn't over yet. Nurse Adams I had a date. I locked up and walked out through the waiting room, up the stairs and out into...
Author's Note: Although this short piece was written to stand on its own, it depicts events which take place shortly after "An Hour Before The Wedding." You can read them separately, together, and in either order because, face it, they don't really have much plot to begin with. ************************ The church bells clanged their joyous sound. Halleluja...
"I suppose you're wondering why I called the two of you in here today," Reverend Stephanie Lewis said as she closed the door to her office. "Well, to be honest with you, Reverend," Lucy said, looking over her shoulder to keep eye contact with the other woman as she moved back towards her desk, "we were kind of curious. The wedding's only a couple of weeks a...
"Just as she was about to leave, Monica Lewinsky told President Clinton that there was 'something serious' she needed to talk to him about, something she had learned from a friend. A reporter for Newsweek, Michael Isikoff, was working on a story alleging that the president had sexually harassed a woman named Kathleen Willey outside the Oval Office in 1993 .....
This is a fairly different story for Loving Wives, taken from a different perspective. There are no sex scenes in this story. It deals with the possible implications of confessing to an affair that had remained secret. I'm guessing that this will not be a high scorer, but take heart: at least it isn't long! Though this story references DeGarde, Louisiana, i...
"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...
One Wednesday night late in August we wrapped up a little earlier that usual. Mack still had not finished his duties so we did some busy work to pass the time. He seemed to be stalling too for some reason. Finally Rev asked if he was staying late he said that he would be leaving in about 30 minutes. We decided to go out for ice- cream and then return. When w...