Pt. I: Discovery hen she went shopping downtown, she had no idea it would take so long. But looking at the time, she thought she had just enough in hand to go and surprise her husband. The hospital was not too far away, and in any case, he didn't mention he had surgery that day. Rosa walked into the busy hospital and smiled at a few of the friends she knew...
Adjusting my tie the bathroom was a challenge with foggy glasses and a dress shirt sticking to my underarms. Diana had just finished a most luxurious bath, and left the room warm and moist. Traces of her jasmine perfume teased me, and I could've bent her over her vanity and rocked her until all of the little bottles fell to the floor, but instead I peeked ar...
The evening found the Miriam within the tents of the surgeon, aiding the surgeon in setting bones and dressing wounds. He had a team to aid him already but with the crushing defeat felt that day, there was plenty need for additional help. The cold made her hands stiff and her short red hair frustratingly fell into her face. She was in the middle of stitching...
My parents chose to name me Josephine, but everyone else calls me "Jo". It's much shorter, and prettier than "Josephine". I don't like my name... When I introduce myself, I always say "Hi, I'm Jo". Josephine is really old fashioned, but I guess that's why my parents chose it, because they are really old fashion too. We live in eastern France, a village so s...
Eleanor began to realize that she was in a very dangerous situation when she appeared at the District Court for Women for the first time since the new order had taken control. Women now were totally in charge and the most serious problems seemed to be relations with other women. Eleanor had been summoned to the court after she had been discovered by an att...
What a day! A few hours earlier I heard the ship's horn from aboard a ship for the first time. I was, finally, on a cruise, after fantasizing about it for so many years! Maybe I should go back. Two months ago Geoffrey sprang the news on me that he had fallen for someone other than me. Considering Geoffrey was my husband of ten years, and that our marriage h...
CHAPTER 1 Judith Kennedy smiled at she looked out the small kitchen windows of the holiday home at the lake. The dads and boys of the two families were playing soccer on the rough, just-mown lawn against the girls and the boyfriends of the older girls. The females were shrieking 'foul', 'that's not fair' and 'give us a chance to play the ball'. Roll back...
Most of my stories have a nodding acquaintance with believably. The exception is the character of Helen Pollard. She's a sex-crazed cartoon. This is a one-parter. Continuing action is implied but I won't be going down the rabbit hole. ***** Helen could see in her husband's eyes that he was exhausted. And it wasn't just their drooping lids and heavy bags....
Chapter 6 "Is this you first time going to L.A.?" the old woman sitting next to me in the aisle seat asked, taking a sip of ginger ale with her elderly hands. "That's right," I answered, setting down the in-flight magazine I'd been reading to take my mind off things. "Actually my first time on an airplane, too." "Ooh, how exciting! Vacation?" "Er... S...
I just turned 45 years old and had been a coast to coast mover/trucker for half my life. My strength and ability to go without sleep helped me to make good money. My new tractor had the power and speed to get across the country quickly. The pay was a share of the line-haul so it helped that I owned the trailer too so I got a bigger percentage. It was a lone...