I first met Mohammad when I was a girl. He was 15 years older than me. I was 16 and he was the senior mechanic in my Dad's garage in Tel Aviv. I remember watching his body, as he would sweat under the boiling Middle Eastern sun. He would put down his wrench, peel off his shirt, and then grab a Cola, which he would drink in the yard. I would finger myself an...
[A note on this story: BlackWatch originally appeared here in 2009, as a six chapter story titled The Man From God Only Knows. I never really considered the story finished, and the end was really a bare-bones version -- one that I have discarded completely for this final version. BlackWatch Prelude: What has come and gone In the immediate prelude to the F...
There is no sex at all in this chapter. It's all fiction except one kernel IS based on reality. See the end notes. ********************* In 1873, ten years after the Battle of Gettysburg, the US Congress authorized and commissioned a painting of that "turning point of the Civil War" to be hung in the Capitol building foyer. It was to be a large painting -...
*Disclaimer: Any persons engaging in sexual activity are at least eighteen years of age. Chapter 1 James Kowalski sat at the desk and seethed. Because of that stupid bitch wife of his calling the fucking cops out to their home, he was on 'Desk Duty' until the fucking investigation was over. And he still couldn't believe that son of his, hitting him. He co...
In the very early 90s, I lived in a small, one room flat, on the 4th floor of an old brownstone building in the middle of the city of Wuerzburg, Germany. An odd situation...an American living in subsidized housing in Germany. But I'd been there for nearly 15 years, had gotten divorced from my wife after leaving the military, and stayed on to be close to my...
I had enjoyed taking the lead the night of the party. I knew that this might not be how things would turn out going forward, if there was a forward, but it had been fun. I had to. These days, men were terrified of what might fail and, because he worked nearby and I was likely to see him again whatever happened, I knew I had to pretend to be in control. I fo...
There comes a point in a man's life when the hard decisions have to be made. Do you fight or throw in the towel? I believed that there wasn't anything that could make my wife do what she did to me. I had been married to her for 25 years and we have three kids. Macy is my baby girl and she is 18. Mike is 20 years old and in the Navy. Jason is 24, married with...
Mattie had a quiet weekend resting up after her wild Friday night with young Justin. She grabbed a coffee and cinnamon roll from the shop downstairs and then climbed the steps to her office. She was wearing her usual tight skirt that was a few inches above her thigh and a tight buttoned top with the top two buttons unfastened. She had her feet on the desk wh...
"Venus here will choose her dwelling, and forsake her Cyprian groves" (Dryden) * Jana lived a life of self imposed semi-isolation. She was one of those women who, it seems, having loved once, could not find it in them selves to risk loving again. Having finished studying at a commercial college she had been fortunate in that she got a job as clerical ass...
Lorna's Journals (Part Four) We sailed along the pavements and past historic London scenes to an impressive new riverfront apartment house. It had about fifteen floors and at least five luxury flats per floor. The lobby alone would have said "super wealthy" with the sheer elegance it provided for you in just this first peep at Thames riverside life. Raymond...