Over recent weeks I had seen a Redwing flitting about the garden. I am a keen birdwatcher, so one evening I set out with my binoculars to see if I could get a closer view. I live in the countryside and have a large garden with a couple of fields, and as I strode out through the tall grass in the golden late afternoon light, my thoughts turned to happier days...
Sarah hated her life in the small village of Hedgesville. She was the only child of the town's butcher, Fred Elliot, and since leaving school had worked in his shop serving the local townsfolk her father's prime cuts. Sarah was in love with Jacob Smothers, a local nar-do-well who had finished school when Sarah did but was planning on traveling to the big...
My mother married my dad when she was only 18. My Dad worked at the Church and he maintained all conservative values in our home. My mother loved painting and she wanted to have a future in that profession but my father didn't allow her to work. She had to work a lot at home and did the entire house hold chores after which there was no time left for anything...
Daniel and Alice Frost had been happily married for five years. Both in their mid thirties, they worked for the same company as auditors. They had led sheltered lives, and all their friends and colleagues thought that they were a friendly couple, but a little naive. It came as much of a surprise then, when the couple booked a holiday experience to North Afri...
The story of my people is told often as a legend, a campfire story. A gypsy woman begged the Moon to send her a husband, one whose skin was tanned and taut over sinuous muscle. The Moon replied to her request, assuring her that she would find her perfect man. In return for this miracle she asked for another. She wanted only her firstborn of this perfect man....
Copyright Sethp 2010 all rights reserved! (Thanks to Busty Jessica again for inspiring this story and thanks to Pennlady for her expert editing) * Megan awoke as the morning sun shone brightly through the window, and could smell the scent of sex everywhere in the room. The sheets were cum-stained and rumpled and beer bottles littered the room. What a nigh...
As told by Marilyn, Single Female, 48 I finished reading the note for the second time, and looked up at him again. "Did you read this?" He seemed surprised. "Oh, no, Ma'am, it was sealed by Mrs. Clarke, herself, and I delivered it the same condition." I folded it and stuck it in my pocket. "Do you know what it says?" He shuffled his big feet, scratched h...
LIIIHope and GloryLord Newbury2078 The whole thing had been a bloody fiasco. In fact, it had been a disaster from beginning to end. Instead of rallying the whole nation to the defence of the beleaguered nobility, the actions that Lord Newbury had foolishly allowed himself to be associated with had rather hastened its decline. On this very day, one and a ha...
I'd lost the love of my life and felt like life wasn't worth living. And then along came Fate, forcibly reminding me through tragedy that one should never take one's loved ones for granted. You never know when you might lose them. My name is Yasmin Hussein, and I'm a young Somali-Canadian Muslim woman living in the City of Ottawa, Ontario. What I'm about to...
We took a three week vacation to travel through Spain. We flew into Madrid and spent a couple days there doing all the tourist things. We then took a train to Barcelona. While traveling on the overnight train we met a man from England in the club car. His name was Harold and he was touring Spain for the summer. He planned on staying in Barcelona for a few...