APRIL 17, 2009 Luis gave me a nod from behind the bar. It was a Friday, but a lot of the regulars hadn't shown up. Guatemala and particularly the port cities like Puerto Barrios on the Gulf of Honduras and Pacific sides were hurting. The American Depression of 2008 could be called a Recession in the U.S. but it was a full-fledged 1930s Great Depression in t...
Until I met Susie I didn't have much of an idea what innuendo meant. For all I knew, it could've been an Italian brand of suppository. I still remember that evening quite clearly. There were about a dozen of us at an informal dinner party hosted by Alan Johnston and Clare Jenkins, celebrating their engagement. We were all in our final year at Edinburgh Univ...
Britnee was dreaming. Dreaming she was the red rubber ball on the end of a rubber band attached to a paddleboard. She was slapping against the paddle thwapapapap. She didn't mind the slapping, she did mind the air raid siren blaring in her ears. It sounded like the end of the world. "Shut Up!" she screamed. She jerked awake. It took a moment to realize the...
Some of this will be a bit confusing without having read part one, but the erotic activities pretty much can stand on their own. If you are upset about wives engaging in sexual activities with men not their husbands, please stop reading. Also, unprotected sex with unknown partners is just plain stupid. This is pure fantasy. *** Bill sat back down after rev...
CHAPTER 5 At breakfast Hal told Annie, "Paris and I are going off somewhere today is that okay?" "Why are you asking me Hal?" "He's just been polite," Paris said, guessing what was on Hal's mind. "He's wishing to add to my Montana experiences." Annie smiled and wished them a great time. As they drove off in Hal's SUV Paris said, "Annie really did wish u...
MPC14: Julia Gets a Proposition It was snowing hard when they crossed into the U.P. Huge white flakes drifted down from steel grey clouds pregnant with moisture. On either side of the long straight strip of blacktop huge piles of snow had been pushed off the road in seemingly endless wind rows. And beyond the snow banks rank upon rank of balsam, hemlock, wh...
Tuesday, August 4th, 2020 Parent-teacher nights at Sofia Vergara's Summer School for Girls were always a sight to behold. Such evenings at more traditional schools generally made for a rather drab affair, and while crowning moments of such events might include a balding, divorcee English teacher questioning a dumpy housewife about their daughter's choice of...
Reality came in the form of flashing lights in Carl's rear view mirror. He had no idea at all why he was being stopped, the speedometer was on a steady 60 miles per hour. The policeman turned his big machine at a slight angle to ward off any errant oncoming traffic, then came to his window. "Driver's license please, sir." Carl handed it to him, along with...
Stumbling along from one waitress job to another since high school, I seem destined to be stuck in the service of others. For the past two years of college, it’s been Libby’s Diner that’s been my purgatory. The money’s poor, but I do make a few extra bucks on the infrequent tips. The average tipper in Libby’s Diner sure as fuck had nothing to do with coining...
Chapter 3 I saw Emma again only a month after our initial meeting in Los Angeles. After I got back from the ACM Conference, I briefed my boss and colleagues on the papers I'd attended and my recommendations. After some further research, we realized there was some seminal work on relational databases being done by Larry Ellison at Ampex Corporation in Redw...