I woke up feeling accomplished. Yesterday, William had come by and I gave him the final program from the project. It was about 2 months late, but he had continually pushed the deadline further on... even though I had been finished for a couple of weeks. William had come by weekly to get an "update", sometimes two or three times a week. We talked about the...
M "Hinge seems to want me to respond to pokes from women, but I might be a touch choosy" F "Hinge? Pokes?" M "it's tinder for adults I think, installed them both at the same time, and it keeps bugging me to do things" F "Well, maybe you should, In fact, that would be the right thing to do. Especially, because it bugs me, for some reason" M "you mean...
While confined to our home with little to do, I turned on my favorite cable channel to get caught up on the news. Of course everything was about coronavirus and all of the pundits were flapping their lips without any idea if the clap-trap that they were espousing was true and/or accurate. When Dr. Oz appeared- someone who I typically mute- I decided to hear...
Lily drove a gray Prius, had an English bulldog, dressed in workout clothes generally, and drew my attention every time she stepped out of her house from the moment three years ago when she moved into the house across the street from us. She also had a habit of leaving the blinds to her living room open. Thankfully my wife didn't mention the attractive new...
The present hour. Ephezia Luxury Park, District 6. The vulk collapses on its side, revealing Sun, who departs the flames with a blanketed girl. Stepping over the beast's corpse, he brings the child to Mortimer. "How? How is it even possible?" the count mistrusts the situation's totality even as he takes the girl into his arms. He stares as her mannequin fa...
One Saturday it rained around sundown. Karyn and Joe sat in the garage, a fire in the driveway, and watched the lightning off in the distance. As they sat enjoying the darkening skies, Sheila popped over from across the street. "Hi guys!" "Hi Sheila, how are you guys doing?" Karyn asked. "Great! Thanks to you guys." Sheila responded as she sat in a chai...
The rain: that's how it all began. Hannelore was standing in the breakroom, staring out the window with an increasingly grim expression. The disproportionate enormity of the window made her look smaller than she actually was, shrinking into nothingness in the shimmering void of the rain. She'd already changed, so she was wearing her street clothes -- nothin...
Testing His New Toys Sitting on his bed, Xander leaned back against the wall, the paint smooth without any hint of peeling. It was a small luxury that he had brought into his life when things had turned around, when he'd finally stood up on his own two feet after leaving his family, and it meant a lot to him. He hadn't left his family entirely, of course, s...
She knew that her inability to orgasm was affecting their sex life. He did too. Frustration brewed at the fringes of their relationship, threatening to overflow into conflict that they both knew their love might not survive. One night he approached her in their bedroom, as he was wont to do. However, instead of initiating another generic round of unsatisfyi...
I woke the next morning to the smell of bacon, and Beth appeared in the doorway with a tray. "Thought I'd treat you," she grinned, sitting on the edge of the bed. I bit into a bacon sandwich. "Mm." Beth picked up her mug, sipping, and I detected a hint of anxiety in her expression. "Are you OK?" I queried. "I'm fine, really. But Mum will be back later, an...