Kate and I were discussing the many challenges families now face with the advent of DNA testing. After reading a recent news story of one family's surprising results, we came up with the following tale. As always, all characters are figments of our imagination and have no connection to any living or dead persons. "Let sleeping dogs lie" Ancient Proverb/Ori...
This is an edited version of my original story. I want to thank SlaveGirl70 for her great editing. ==== "OK. That was pretty good. I need more tenor. Sopranos hold back. Let's start again with measure 173." Beth, our choir director, brought us through one of our spring concert pieces. This piece was a modern piece written by a Ugandan priest. It had some...
Purely fictional. All characters are 18 and above. ***** Being in a position of vulnerability can be a high on its own. However, it didn't hurt to be a little tipsy as well. Hesitantly putting my glass down on the wooden table, my mind conveniently started to drift, as though picturing my elder sister killing me for leaving a ring on her expensive furnitur...
1999 - Season One, Episode Six - Pax Soprano James Gandolfini walked onto the set wearing his dressing gown which covered his white vest and boxers. He didn't feel totally comfortable walking around in his vest and boxers just yet, but in this scene he was going to be mostly covered by a sheet. He reminded himself that he would get to spend the next hour wi...
"I'm sorry. I just don't believe you. And if I can't believe you, why should I trust you? How can I commit to you in a relationship?" Sophie had to admit that Malcolm had a point, but one far too dangerous to concede. She sipped from her glass of Argentinean white and placed it on the bench in front of her just inside the shadow cast by the sunshade. She pu...
We met online, and as luck would have it, we lived in the same city. During our second chat, I invited Matilda out to dinner. She accepted, and we arranged to meet at The Old Federal the next evening. The Old Federal was a heritage-listed pub that had been tarted up to attract the well-heeled mob, who liked the adventure of slumming it on the edges of a rec...
And it's pretty amazing" Jeremy was saying to Sheila and Simone as they relaxed in the Cooper's sunny living room, "Noemie, who I'd always been kind of in awe of— She has a wicked sense of humor!" Noemie smiled. She was a little heavy, butt-wise, but had nice boobs and gorgeous amber hair and twinkling eyes. Sheila noticed sort of a tough look about...
My name is Rosalind, "Roz." Tears are slowly rolling down my cheek as I stand on the tarmac at the airfield. A big military transport has just landed and it is bringing my husband, Jeff, and his unit home from a year long deployment in an overseas combat zone. This should be a moment of happiness and the tears should be those of joy. But that's not the cas...
Five months later On a sunny East Texas Friday in early May Katie sat in a chair on the third story porch of her townhouse watching the day begin. As with every business day it commenced with the usual flow of traffic and people bustling by as they headed off to their various destinations. Katie had just showered and dressed for work. Because the temperatur...
1. The brown wooden door had a glass inset that distorted the images coming through it, like the ones used for shower doors or bathroom windows. It suited the second floor of the slightly run-down building on Mine St. The glass announced Therapeutic Massage in three inch black letters and underneath it said "Richard Dillon, MsT" Beneath Richie's name was "E...