NOTE: I will be posting this story on two other sites, under the same title. This was written for a competition in which the author was to avoid naming the characters or giving physical descriptions, so that readers could, hopefully, identify with one of the players. I hope I accomplished this. Any feedback or constructive criticism you care to give will be...
On this summer Sunday Jack Cunningham stood in the kitchen in nothing more than sagging Y fronts. Julia, dressed in her church-going clothes, stood before him, snapping out orders. She was telling him to dust all the front parlour, sweep the hall, take the carpets out and beat them on the clothes line. Jack stood, sheepish, holding the failing elastic with...
This is a Summer Lovin' contest story. Please vote. * Stephen's love of his life is his sister's best friend, Summer, a woman eight years older than him. Summer, I'm in love with Summer, my sister Christine's best friend and I don't know what to do about it. Love at first sight, it all started the first time I saw Summer in the summer of 1968. She was in...
No sex in this story but please take the time to read it. I hope you will enjoy it. As always, a big thank you to LadyCibelle and Techsan for their editing to make my story a much better read. They are also fine authors in their own right. Chapter 1 I was just a regular country boy. I graduated high school, worked on my parents' farm and lived pretty much...
The Bookshelf, Volume 1: Bondage. James Bondage. I set a copy of Ian Fleming's original Casino Royale on The Bookshelf, my hands trembling... This inheritance: it may be the most dangerous remnant of the Lost Age still left outside of the control of the secret societies, my grandfather had written. You must keep it hidden from everyone. I watched, wide-e...
With only a couple of days left before we left for Richmond, there were a lot of things we had to iron out before our departure. The division of labour was easy; Manny attacked the logistical aspects of the work that would be done in our absence, sorting out assignments and staffing for the jobs which were already on the books and freeing up assets for any w...
Chapter 10 Mom was favouring her shoulder, it was turning black and blue. I was developing muscles and soon I would be using that cannon for hunting. I liked my 308 and it will bring down anything but the 306 is definitely a one shot one kill gun. While we were talking I said, "Looks like I got to put a rifle in your hands." Cindy smiled and I said, "We c...
The ecstasy and agony of a modern marriage Today Life had been good to Owen Anderson. At a young-looking 49, he was Managing Director of the Chicago office of Morgan Weinstein & Cie. Since graduating with honors from Ohio's Denison University, followed by an MBA in finance from the University of Chicago, his business career had been one of continual ac...
Next chapter should be posted within a week! *Still working on developing this story. Jazz and Connor are slowly opening up. I hope you see more into them, and are rooting for them to make it through. I think anyone who has ever lost someone knows how difficult it can be. And a bad relationship can be hard on self-esteem. I hope I captured that well. Ps....
I've always thought it a cruel joke that, at the time of day when your temper is most uncertain and you really, really need the boost only caffeine and sugar can provide, you have to stand in the kind of line that makes a glacier look like Usain Bolt. Shifting my weight from foot to foot and trying not to breathe the same air as the sneezer two people back,...