The semester was nearly over and my wife Nancy and her classmates were working on small group projects instead of meeting as a class. To the disappointment of her heterosexual male classmates John, Arthur, Jerry, and Dean, she was placed in a work-group with three other women and the gay man. It was just as well. She and her project-mates managed to work wit...
Arriving home Friday afternoon I told Misty I had to make a trip to a client's site early the following week. She asked where I was going and how long I was going to be there. I told her it was a town about 200 miles away and I was planning on leaving early Sunday morning returning Wednesday evening. As we ate dinner later in the evening Misty asked if she...
They sat by the canal, sipping beer, watching the world go by, well, not the entire world. There were no old people or children, no religious zealots or women of a certain age, this was Amsterdam, and the street they were in was not a place that any of those people visited, this wasn’t a family playground, but one of a different sort altogether. It was earl...
Jennifer's story Meeting Mark's sisters turned out to be kind of neat, but if the apple doesn't fall far from the tree, in the Stewart's case, all three apples fell straight down the trunk, plop! and just laid there, not an inch apart, because they're all alike. Both of his sisters are as tough as his mother, and they all look alike: there's absolutely no...
There is someone for everyone. Isn't there? Never married or in a serious relationship, Gary worked five days a week and half a day Saturday in a machine shop. He had been employed there for 15 years, since he graduated from high school. It was a good job with a good wage, benefits, and overtime, and as much as the routine drove him mad after a while, he ne...
BLACK CAT BLUES June MARY ANNE CZARNIKI STOOD on the porch of her house calling into the still night air, "Salem. Salem, kitty, kitty, kitty." She was extremely worried. The stray cat she had been feeding for over a year had not eaten his food now for several days. The cat had shown up several months after the death of her husband and, if truth be told, s...
"I'm forty three years old! What the hell is the matter with you?" I cringed at the tone in Sharon's voice. I had just mentioned a couple of stories I had read online about a guy who enjoyed seeing his wife do some peekaboo stuff. The one I liked was probably trite but it had to do with a mature woman that went out shoe shopping with her hubby and let the c...
I was currently in the process of a divorce. My job required that I travel a lot, and as such, I had come home quite unexpectedly from a trip out of town. Hoping to pleasantly surprise my wife, I was the one surprised as I walked in and found her in bed with another man. I had moved out shortly after that, and had most recently moved into the new Condominium...
Are you alone and lonely for the holidays? Don't you wish that Ronco would invent something to make you feel not so alone and sell it on TV for, oh, I don't know, $19.99 and if you called right now, you'd get a second one for free? Yeah, well, go fish, life doesn't work that way. A friend in need is a friend indeed doesn't always go along with you sow what...
After three meetings, I was surprised when my wife announced that at the next one, some new members were to be initiated. I asked how they did initiate new members and all my wife would tell me was to wait and see. That night, as we went over to the clubroom, I was full of anticipation and apprehension. The group was sitting around the room when we arrived...