It has during the Vietnam Era when I was found guilty by an Ohio jury, guilty of not only abandoning the military, my life as well. Sitting in a small cell and fed cold beans and two week old bread for months before I was able to be treated like the rest of the cons in here. Thinking how dumb I was for fleeing the U.S. army. But at least I'm alive and can li...
The drive to work, always frustrating but never changing. Brief case rocking gently in the passenger seat. Today was another in a long string of days tied together with boredom. Over ten years with this company, and unable to move past middle level management. You know you are better prepared than most you work with, but still the upward movement never occ...
We were the only ones in the elevator that morning, and he intimidated me. But, I hid it well. I held my head high and displayed none of the nervousness that was tying my stomach in knots. "Good morning, how are you?" I asked. "Fine, and you?" He glanced my way, distractedly, still fumbling through the documents he held in his hands. I could tell he wasn'...
For The Baron, You could have been anyone… I am glad it was you! Sao xxx Isobel was so excited driving out to meet him for lunch. It was a beautiful spring day with the sun sparkling on the sea and she sang along to the radio as she drove along the coast road. It had been almost two weeks since she had seen Peter and to her it seemed like forever. They s...
When I gathered my senses to me, I knew I was back in the museum and I had to return as quickly as I could. Each second was an hour. Each moment was a lifetime. I stared at the stone as I touched it, chanting the words, but nothing happened. No spark. No lights. Nothing. "Oh Vytex..." I breathed, frantically thumbing through the tome for maybe a diffe...
About a month ago, Julie had been out of town, visiting one of her former college roommates. As she told David, her current lover, "Fred was a great guy and a dynamite fuck. But there were too many differences for us to be able to keep going on together. Still, I miss him and want to see him. We'll have some time to catch up and he'll probably get me in bed...
The next day Vera woke warm and comfortable but also confused. She didn't know where she was or why she had chosen to sleep in her human skin. It took a moment for her to remember the events of the previous night. Going to the bar seemed like a lifetime ago, then the chase and the crash. Vera sat up and removed the t-shirt she was wearing to survey the damag...
When my wife, Sara, and I first began having sex, we used condoms for protection. I was my wife's first serious relationship and she had never experienced sex without using a condom. Of course I had experienced sex without them and longed to feel it again with her. After several weeks of dating and using condoms, she finally agreed to see her doctor for so...
As she walked down the pebble and dirt path, it was hard for her to believe that it had been 23 years since they'd met. Her mind wandered aimlessly, back to her high school days as she pulled her fleece jacket together and zipped it up to her chin. Fall...the most beautiful time of year as far as she was concerned. Not only because the trees would show off w...
There was a quiet nervousness between them, which was a strange contribution to the years of comfortable friendship they had shared, though the nights of raucous shows and drinking and smashing things were over. Both of them had remained true to their roots, tattooed and pierced well into their 30s, even when they'd got responsible, got married, and started...