EDUCATION It was my Aunt Lisa who turned me. The summer I turned 18, my mother sent me to stay with her for a while. Farm boy, gone to summer in the big city. Backwards, right? Totally. It was hot enough on the farm. Hotter'n a three-peckered goat in the city—as we'd say on the farm. But I was an underdeveloped pretty boy. Boys my age were spoiling to kill...
Author's note: Sean and Sheila finally made it to their island paradise. No one told them to expect perfection, so they were not disappointed. Chicken salad, at $1000 a day, is only part of it. Chapter 5 0400 Rise and dress 0430 Microwave oatmeal, no egg. 0455 Kiss sleeping wife 0500 Meet Don at boat dock 0500-0930 Fish while Don makes morning rounds 0930...
Last night my wife Heather and I went to the wildest party ever. My name is Bob and I work at Masterpiece Plastics. We just moved to Chicago from Milwaukee for this job. It was a traumatic move because we had a lot of friends and family in Milwaukee, but a job is a job and beggars can't be choosers. Anyway, my boss at work is a young woman named Sherry. She...
It was my long weekend. When we change over from one shift to another, just occasionally it works out that we get a few days spare and so it was this time, Friday, Saturday, Sunday, all free. On Friday morning I woke up as usual at 7 and started to get out of bed. Margaret, to my surprise was already up and moving around. "Stay," she said. "Thank you." I r...
Chapter 3 Michael comes over to the table. "A bud for Jon, Stella for Chloe, and the finest Chardonnay for his punkness." "Did he always give you so much shit?" Chloe asks me. "Ever since the spider incident," I say as Michael puts down the drinks carefully. The table wobbles a bit. "Spider incident?" Michael interjects "Yeah, he told me I had a spider...
Chapter 7: Having the talk The next day I got up early and sent a fax. "Miss Spencer, I hope you enjoy a Happy Thanksgiving, Ben." The words we overheard when Jen was talking to her sister, "I can't. I just can't sit at that table and pretend...," haunted me. Was she saying she couldn't sit at her parents' Thanksgiving table and pretend that the man she ha...
I didn't have an ounce of energy to do anything other than float in wretched agony for a very long time. I was told that the water in Town Lake nearly boiled and that the steam and fog obscured the river afterwards for miles. Some kindly firemen pulled me out of the river and wrapped me in a towel. It promptly caught on fire, so they put me back into the ri...
This is a true story about my wife Fran, her uncle and their cuckolding of me. When it first started we had been married only two years. Fran was 23 and I was 29. Shortly after our wedding Fran seemed to change. She ate a lot more and inevitably put on weight. She was always a little on the heavy side anyway. It seemed that she just sat around doing nothin...
Rain drummed against the window of the store, droplets blurring the closed sign that had been turned off hours before. The lights were turned off throughout the entire store, all except one low light lamp in the very back corner of the bookshop. The soft hum of the electricity feeding into the lightbulb was only met by the sound of soft hitched breathing and...
The first time I saw her naked was five years after we had been living alone together. She came out of the shower with a light blue towel around her body and a white one covering her dark hair. As she walked by me to get to her room, she reached up with both hands to make an adjustment and the body wrap fell around her ankles. My eyes were filled. "Oh my G...