Portrait of a Modern Marriage Part 7 New Liaisons With Old Friends The following Wednesday, just after 10 am, as I was sat in a planning meeting for our latest development project, my mobile vibrated silently alerting me that I had received a text. Glancing at it quickly, not really wanting to be disturbed, I saw it was from Claire. She didn't often c...
I had just finished landing a nice lake trout when I noticed that the light snow had just turned heavy. It was Labor Day weekend and heavy snow was not common for this part of Colorado in the beginning of September. I decided that this would be my last trout for this solo hiking trip and I returned to my shoreline camp to cook my trout dinner. As it was stil...
When I drifted into the student lounge just after lunch, the table where I usually played cutthroat hearts was full. I was hunting for a girl I'd never met but whose picture in the student handbook I found attractive. It showed a great smile, alert eyes, a full head of light hair, and shoulders to die for. Her name was Stacy. Casual inquiry told me that Sta...
It was a bit of a surprise that I found myself childless and divorced at the age of forty-five. I knew that my children would eventually flee the family nest, but I expected that my husband John would be with me forever. But a year and a bit after our eldest daughter left, John left too. It had been a good marriage with many years of fine times. I guess with...
* * * I would like to thank my editors for the hard work they have done on my story. I had BGMISFUN, do the first draft of my story. I was really happy with all the corrections he did to my story. I then had some more thoughts about my story. I contacted Shelves to read it over and make corrections. I was really happy with his editing of my story. I think i...
This story features discussion of mental illness and hints at grace's less than pleasant past. I have endevoured to do soon a fair an accurate way, using my own experience of mental illness personally, as well as through my friends and my work in mental healthcare. It may not be enjoyable reading for all, however, mental illness has defined each of my relati...
My wife and I have a normal marriage and we have been married for over 30 years. I have a high stress job, own my own company and make literally thousands of decisions every day so when I get home, I don't really want to make any more decisions. Just tell me what to do and let's go do it. I have a kink in that I like to be teased and denied. She has resisted...
We were all instructed to get out of our clothes, put on the robe in our room and come down to the living room. I thought this is a weird way to start life in a sorority. I should back up, just a little. Although I am now in my thirties, then I was just beginning my freshman year. It was Rush Week, when all the fraternities and sororities recruited members....
Friday July 15th, 2016 "What is love? Baby don't hurt me...don't hurt me...no more" Shit...not again... I slowly opened my eyes, wondering for the thousandth time why I had picked that song as my alarm. And answering- because I thought it was funny, because I thought it would get a rise out of Julie, my wife. ... The first morning it went off I let...
Desirée Tanner blinked in the June sunshine, not sure whether to curse or cry. The door to Cletus' Crab Shack slammed behind her with the awful ring of finality. Her left hand held her long ivory coat around her while her sandy blonde hair from flying in every direction. Three sheets of powder-blue paper slipped from the file folder gripped in her right ha...