I'd retired to a quiet Suffolk seaside village, which wasn't so quiet after all. If you want some background to this episode, please read the previous parts, or some of them! **************************** The week of the summer fair arrived, and the volunteers, and committee were getting into top gear. Everyone in the village was excited because the fair...
"We've got to get you dressed up. The inspector is coming today," Paul said. "You wouldn't believe the look my boss gave me when I asked for the day off, but don't worry. We'll make a day of it." Maddy had been with Paul for so long that she had lost track of time. Each day blended with the rest: long stretches alone and at home while Paul worked at the sup...
Elizabeth wanted to be married. She just didn't want to be married to HIM. Ben loved her. He loved her with his whole being, just as he had pledged to 18 years ago at their wedding. He was just tired. They had gone shopping. They wandered the aisles of Target looking at all the same shit they looked at every four days or so. They bought dog food. He showed...
Rob and Beck were in their mid-40s, and having lost their partners, were about to get married for the second time. Rob's wife had left him for another man and he was living with his son Eddie who was 19. Beck's husband had died years ago in a car accident and her daughter Marion, who was 18, was living with her. Marion was about to start college and lived in...
Tiffany woke up at 11:40. She rolled out of bed and collapsed on the floor. She fought her way out of the tangle of blankets and sat up. Shit. She had to be at Joseph's place at noon. And she had to bring her dress and makeup. She scrambled to find her makeup bag in the jumble of clothes in her suitcase. Finding it, she rushed to the closet and pulled down...
Once was a funny little experience. Twice was an annoyance. But it had happened three times, and rather than being upset, I needed to find a solution. I live in a mixed gender dorm in college with men on the even floors and women on the odd floors. We have communal bathrooms on each floor, ten showers in row with concrete block walls and shower curtains pr...
Coming In Hot - December 28 Six years after we both graduated from college I ran into Allison Caroll in the mall. While we were only casually acquainted in college, we found out that we had a lot in common now. Namely we are both obsessed with work and career. That was two and a half years ago and at the time Allison was an accountant with aspirations for a...
When the worlds collided, the borders became a blur, what was once a view into the horizon was now a keyhole into the unknown. What was once a walk in the woods, low led into the claws of an unknown mistress. All of them were merciless, all wished for nothing more than to usurp the other, whilst playing with the people caught in between. But one of them saw...
** Y'all realise this is fiction right? I could have made up up any name to go here but who doesn't remember that blue catsuit and wonder if just maybe Gillian is one of us? ** It had been a long time since Gillian Anderson had last spent a weekend with him in New York. Since she got famous it had got harder and harder to live out her fantasies. One wrong p...
A new Life I decided to go back to the big city and the only place I knew I might have a friend was Madame Silvers benefactor. The man that offered to give her a job when she lost the house. I put in a call to him and prepared to leave a message hoping he would get back to me. To my surprise he took the call and told me how much he missed Madame and that he...