In April, 1989, I was working at a corporation with so many layers that I couldn't precisely say who my actual employer was. At the top was a conglomerate that had started out as an auto parts manufacturer. As it added and shed many lines of business over the decades it needed a new identity. Eventually it had purchased an old-line Hollywood studio called Ap...
"Wow," I said as I looked at the view of the city. "That's the second time you said that," Kathy smiled from behind me. "Well," I said, standing against the glass window of her office. "I know you said you worked in this building, but I didn't think you were up this high." "I am glad you like it," Kathy smiled as her secretary brought her a few papers. "I...
A semi-autobiographical account of my sexual encounters over many years. Chapter Thirty-One. 2011. (Late-May.) Denouement. My initial concerns that Les would hear about my little peccadillo with his sons proved groundless and my affair with him continued to flourish during the early part of the year. However, that was about to change. It was the first ti...
Some of us, as we get older, look at ourselves differently. When we look in the mirror, we see aging taking place. Body begins to droop in places, we put on weight, get wrinkles, and end up getting hair where we never had it before. Our lovers occasionally find their other half unattractive. Losing interest in loving or sexual relations. Even though she tr...
Chapter 3: Doctor Jeff On the morning following my little escapade with Tonya in the Peppercorn, I had just barely gotten settled at my desk and was scanning through e-mail when there was a knock on the door jamb. I looked up and Phil was standing in the doorway. "Hey Matt old buddy," he said enthusiastically, "Got a minute to talk?" Usually when Phil sto...
As I lie here writing this story I am first and foremost aware of my great fortune. I am secure financially and personally. I have the career I always wanted, I have wonderful friends and an ironclad support system. The joy that I feel on a daily basis is made manifest each day as I wake next to my husband, the man who helped me to become the person that I a...
"Hi Baby, I'm home" she shouted as she came through the door at two o'clock in the morning. All I could do is cringe. You see just a mere twelve hours earlier I was helping her in the bathroom while she was soaking in the tub. I had the sponge and I was gently washing her body with the turquoise scented bath oil beads that saturated the bath water. The oil...
All characters are eighteen or over. *** Trisha had started with B&G Manufacturing while she was a senior in high school working part time. Once she graduated to went full time. In school she had taken business classes and now that she was working at B&G she planned to move off the production floor and into management. However as time passed she realized...
Hitting the gym every night, eating exactly what her nutritionist had recommended to the crumb, and investing most of her money in skincare potions and rubs had recently become the centrepiece of Ezzi's after work activities. A string of failed relationships had given her self-esteem a large hit and she decided to channel that into sculpting herself a perfec...
Nina dragged into work several minutes late. Her tardiness was not the first thing her co-worker Teresa Schuster noticed about her. Teresa had been a friend of many years' standing, and she had been invaluable in helping Nina through the trauma of her divorce. She was several years older than Nina, edging toward forty, and had been happily (or at least sat...