Sleep with one eye open Gripping your pillow tight Exit light Enter night Take my hand We're off to Never Never-land Enter Sandman, Lyrics by James Hetfield JENNIFER Can't... breathe! I hurled myself upwards in bed, yanking in deep lungs full of air through my mouth. My sinuses and head felt twenty pounds heavier and pain was thundering through my s...
I was honored to be asked to participate in "Wine and Old Lace." I've never done historical or romance before, so this was quite a challenge. I hope I've earned another ask sometime in the future. It was just supposed to be a summer job, a way to put some money in Stevie Tanner's pocket to take to his freshman year of college in the fall. His best friend, R...
"Danny, this isn't something that needs to affect us. Not in any real or meaningful way. It's something completely outside of us." You're probably wondering why my bride of twelve years just made that statement to me just now. Thirty minutes earlier I had walked out of my office building, where I work as a CPA for a medium size accounting firm, to walk a c...
The story continues... I hope there's someone still reading... **** 6 DOTS. And so, madness begat madness. April marched into Simon's lab on Valentine's day; lip locked the startled guy and jammed a ring on his finger and firmly announced "I DO!" before she strode back out of the room, skirt swinging and heels clicking. Simon examined his engagement ring...
Chapter 11 -- Foursome Date Thursday just after five o'clock and as expected Dave brought Pam back to the house along with her luggage. He 'officially' situated her in the guest room, but they'd already talked about her staying in their bed. Alice had come home a half-hour early to be there to greet Pam. After their initial greetings, she told Dave she had...
Chapter 1 Have you done much speed dating? It's dumb really. But at least you get to meet women who want to meet men. That's something isn't it? I presumed that at least some of them would want what I wanted, but this turned out a bit tricky. When Sheila left me, she said it was because 'All you want is sex!'. I ask you. What did she think a man wants fro...
Jacksonville, Florida. October, 2019. "Aiden? You ready to go?" "Hold on, Mom! I just gotta grab my glove." "We're going to the base hospital, honey, not a ball field." She knew there was no reason to say that. Her eight-year old son never went anywhere without his baseball glove, so it didn't really matter where they were going. The glove was coming alo...
ONE - DELIVERY Since things had gotten, you know, worse just about all over the place, a great deal of my time had been spent indoors, alone. Just like anyone else. Years of self-isolation from several pandemics, isolation-breaking protests worldwide fed by an equal measure of societal abuse and a sudden influx of everyone having the free time to protest, m...
Editing magic performed by KJ24 and Shyqash, plus contributions by the regular gang of brigands and neer-do-wells. Ebb tide: The period between high water and the succeeding low water. This tale is an espionage fantasy under assault by reality. The 'hero' of this tale might be considered a Libertarian, though the label means nothing to him. He is not comp...
Authors Note - Please note that this is Adult Fiction, so should only be read by those who qualify! This is the fifth and penultimate part of this little mini-series, and is probably best looked at after reading the previous episodes , but for those who can't wait, here's a little précis of events so far... Paolo Wharton has a hot experience that he'd on...