"Jerry! Jerry! Jerry! Jerry!" yelled the enthusiastic studio audience. Jerry Springer slides down a pole on his stage and makes his rounds shaking hands with some of the audience members before they settle down to their seats to watch emotional trainwrecks air their dirty laundry on his nationally televised show. "Today on my show we have lovers sharing se...
THIRTY-SEVEN From Monday to Wednesday everything else but the new building was shelved. It was stressful and tiring. Jenny phoned Ann and told her I would not be around until the contract was signed. Jenny and I ate out each evening and then we'd separate to our own flats to fall into bed exhausted. On Wednesday afternoon the contracts were signed and we w...
This is the continuation of the series Reporting and continues to interweave itself with some of the other series all centred around real life characters living, working, loving and making the mistakes so common to people in mid western USA, i.e. because of the high risk reward scenario overhanging all in an oil and gas boom and bust town like Houston. It ma...
Audrey Henderson finished her slide presentation and looked expectantly towards the twenty listeners hoping they would ask questions to indicate their engagement in the subject matter. Instead, there were only a few seconds of nervous looks before everyone slowly rose and began leaving the room. It was her third session in as many days and in each case, the...
This work may not be published whether for fee or free without this copyright. ------------------ This is one of a series of stories set in what I call Universe-J. Universe-J is very much like this universe with a few exceptions. First the people tend to be a little more sexual and less hung up on sex that they are in our universe. This does not mean tha...
We married when she was 18 and I was 20. Twenty-five years later, after our two children left the house to go on their own, she asked me for a divorce. At first I thought it was a joke. She kept insisting that we divorce. It was not a joke! I was blindsided. I questioned what I had done to bring this about. I thought we had a great marriage. We had strong fa...
Copyright Oggbashan October 2019 The author asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work. This is a work of fiction. The events described here are imaginary; the settings and characters are fictitious and are not intended to represent specific places or living persons. I have realised that I am NEVER going to complete all my part-wr...
Making Plans Trey had been talking for five minutes on the inadequacies of the US penal system, punctuated by brief nods and exclamations of approval from his two ex-con friends. "...it's changed - there was always dangers but now a man can get shanked in there for nothing. You got to be ready, always got to be alert. You rely on your wing-men to watch you...
This was originally titled Quicksilver Messenger, but based on some ideas from readers I have made some changes and retitled the series. In addition, I have a new editor that helped clean up some of the speed bumps in the story. Thanks to Glenn514. It is still the same basic story and the changes are not massive, but to me it is enough to warrant a new versi...
This is not like my other Acts of Infidelity stories. Though not my intention, I expect its content will shock, upset and maybe even offend some readers but I'm telling it exactly as it was told to me. Melanie contacted me three months ago and asked whether I would be prepared to something that might help save her marriage. Describing herself as a housewife...