It was a warm afternoon in June when I first pulled up outside what was to be my new home for the next five years. A quiet, suburban street, the distant drone of lawn mowers could be heard as they chewed and gobbled their way across well manicured gardens. I could see two young girls looping a skipping rope high into the air whilst a third cherub danced and...
Avant propos: This story is the third part of a series, and while you no doubt would enjoy the first tales you can read and appreciated this one in itself. ***** Elliot's Wife As I think I mentioned in the first part of this tale, I met Diane Barr, wife of our editor, Elliot Barr, at the publisher's extravagant Christmas party, and immediately began tryin...
He shuffled to his car in the mostly empty parking lot wondering where he even got the energy to put one foot in front of the other. Stowing his briefcase and laptop bag securely in the back, Matt sank into the driver's seat and closed his eyes. He sat motionless for a few minutes indulging in a brief fantasy of curling up in the car and taking a nap right t...
It had always been a fantasy of hers to make love outside - on one of those gorgeous, warm fall days out in a woodsy setting. She'd been scouting locations for weeks when she found a place that suited her - off the beaten path, no car or pedestrian traffic nearby. There was a place so the car would not draw any notice when parked. Perfect! She had shared th...
He picked up the envelope, knowing what it contained and struggling to figure out how to justify its existence at the front counter to his friends. "Hmmm, this must be the fax I was waiting for at the office yesterday, " he said, "shit, I may have to do some work tonight." His friends groaned, rolling their eyes, commenting on his inability to have fun eve...
We meet as arranged and I am pleasantly surprised by how pretty you are. Not just pretty by also exuding a certain sensuality that I hadn't expected. Perhaps it's just that I haven't before met a woman so open with her sexuality, perhaps it's the slight bulge of suspender belt ties just above the hemline of your skirt. I follow you up the stairs to the caf...
She paces, her heart beating wildly, a red haze is all she sees. The beast inside her roars to be free. She stands at the window, her palm pressed to it as she stares out blankly into the night. She can feel danger lurking in the air but she must give in. She can feel the beast inside her screaming to be freed and she pushes away, only the outline of where h...
The fresh morning air was blowing through the open window when Becky Williams awoke. She looked over at Adam, who was still sleeping, with his arm wrapped around her. It was barely seven in the morning on the first day of June, and the summer air filled the already happy couple with love. Becky slipped out of bed and left Adam where he was. She didn't like...
Hearing the faint calls of migrating geese, Afsoon reined in her stallion and removed the hood from her hunting falcon. It clung to her leather glove, talons flexing in anticipation. When the vee formation was directly overhead, she loosened the birds jesses and sent it soaring in pursuit. Moments later it plummeted down on the flock, taking one of it's mem...
Having kissed and made up, today's meeting will be well worth the wait. At least that is what I am thinking. Having almost lost the one person that I have ever loved the most in my life, I don't want to screw it up today, no pun intended. But the silly argument caused by a major misunderstanding was good because it caused me to decide to take that leap of fa...