-Early on- I took a Japanese language course Akemi taught at the college as a volunteer (I've written about this before). One day we were supposed to read an easy passage to ourselves and then talk about what it meant- in English, of course; none of us knew anywhere near enough Japanese to hold a conversation. After a while, Akemi came to my desk with a s...
*** Banks entered the kitchen ten minutes later. He had gone to his room to put on a t-shirt and camouflage-colored three-quarter shorts. A jug of cold milk and empty tumblers were on the kitchen table He saw Vanessa and Mike talking to each other in low tones each sipping from a glass of milk. Mike wore an apron over his white inner vest. He was tall and m...
Chapter 33. Sir DB. (Early May 1987). For my fifth formal appraisal the senior partner told me he'd like to do it on Saturday morning. "Give you a bit of lunch somewhere afterwards," he said. I was surprised, not only by his unexpected and uncharacteristic display of sociability, but also because my previous four formal appraisals had been very stiff and...
Maybe if I write a full confession I will be able to find some peace and get some rest. Don and I (Alice) would have been married fifty-three years this weekend. But instead I'm alone and lonely with terrible floods of memories coming back to haunt me. There is no excuse for what I did. Fortunately, my guilt and shame had made me straighten up and toe the...
CHAPTER ONE "Merde!" Jardin Découpage swore, hitting the End Call button on her phone and fighting the urge to fling it across her hotel room. She stared out of the window at the New York skyline and wondered what she was going to do next. The call had been from her lawyer and had not brought good news. Her entire business - - the website, the modelling, h...
Chapter 1 Returning to England with Victoria Peach, Lee thought his mother was becoming so disgusting. Twice he'd come across Victoria in bed with her sister Marlene and brother-in-law Clan (Clancy), all of them nude, sweating and red-faced, attempting to roll back under the sheet undetected and begin to idly chat about the weather. He'd also became aware a...
Reverend Alicia has been especially kind to me this week. I guess it's because of how well things have gone at school. I think she thought I was a bit of a slacker—well, compared to my first superior, Leslie, almost everyone is!! So when I told her I would be an assistant principal in the autumn term, and that I had passed the NCTE exam, she said I did deser...
Adultery can occur for many reasons; some of them are unforgivable. This is an attempt to explain a cause that most would not even consider. I refer to religious or other forms of superstition. You must remember some religions are stricter in their enforcement of moral behaviors. Their standards are higher and more rigidly enforced in these groups. The tho...
Well ok, I got a few good reviews so I decided to post more of what I have written. This picks up where the last section left off and is about one quarter of the way through the entire story. Please continue to read and vote and send feedback. Also negative feed back is welcome because I would like to know what I can fix or change(beyond typos that is). So o...
I woke in the usual place at the appropriate time. I swept the temple at nine o'clock in the morning. The wind had scattered leaves in the courtyard. They needed to be cleared before Miranda returned. Thinking of a movie I'd once watched, I wished I could have made the brooms work for me. I wasn't able to remember the title of the film, nor who I saw it wit...