It had been a long day at work, and, of course on the night I want to leave early, my manager keeps me late. I drove back home as fast as I could to get to the party. My roommate was having a bunch of people over to celebrate her recent graduation and I wanted to be able to change out of my work clothes before too many folks arrived. I walked in to find abou...
In most cases, the pleasure you get from sex is proportional to the pleasure you give. So, if sex is not so good, look at yourself first. However, there was a woman in college I bedded who, despite my best efforts, defied that logic. I came to know her through a theater crowd but she kept appearing in other social groups, so I saw her quite often. I liked...
I groaned as my cell phone rang. It was the phone's generic ring, which meant it wasn't anybody I know--which meant it was probably a customer with an "emergency." I work for a small video production company, and a major portion of our business these days is making DVD "slide shows" for weddings--you know, those boring collections of baby pictures of the bri...
Mariella Medina, Ph.D., was enraged. The cute-at-first-sight Mexican businesswoman furrowed her rather too broad brow as she shivered in her severely undersewn frilly strapless, backless tube top. Her figure was decent, with a pert pair of sandy-brown breasts over a flattish tummy and slender legs crammed into ludicrous seven-inch heels, probably to mask her...
For a few years, both in college and after, I was a private music instructor at several of the local schools. Saxophone was my specialty. I would travel from school to school giving music lessons. After a few years I decided to give it up because it was a hard way to make a living, and honestly it provided no social life. I needed to be around people my ow...
One of the downfalls of running a college dorm is that your day is spent meeting with students who have violated the rules. Normally, it's the freshman guys who throw a party and get caught and then have to come meet with the dorm director. These meetings were boring, tedious, and usually the worst parts of my job. That all changed one spring afternoon. My...
It was a steamy hot July afternoon. The haze in the air made everything feel even hotter, if that were possible, and I was driving my truck to help Jenn do some final moving into her new apartment. Jenn was about 19 and had just graduated from the group home were I worked. She was a sweet girl and had no family in the area so when she called me for help I c...
The sun was just beginning to touch the tops of the trees at the west edge of the lake when Shelly asked if anyone else was hungry. The four of us, Shelly, her boyfriend Dan, Shelly's roommate and my "date" Laura, and myself, had spent almost the entire day at the park, swimming, partying a little and enjoying the perfect Michigan summer day. Although none o...
Pork dumplings are Elizabeth's favorite food. Dr. Charles Waxman, her Algebra professor, knows this because Lizzy brought a warm dish of potstickers from Hunan Palace to class on Thursday. "They're my favorite," she whispered to the Russian exchange student in the adjacent row. Dr. Waxman lectured for an hour and a half and turned toward the class to watc...
During a trip into Boston, he stopped at a small antique map shop. While flipping through the Caribbean charts, he discovered a crudely drawn map that vaguely reminded him of an unnamed island he had once explored off the Haitian coast. "It's a map to pirate treasure," the proprietor said pointing to the black "X" near the tiny cove on the island's east side...