Anne and Bill brought their 2nd home in quiet suburb west of the big city. It wasn't a starter home but a four bedroom, a home for a family with children. They were ready for two kids and a surprise 3rd if need be. The happy couple married of five years decided it was time for children with considerable pressure from both families. They decided Anne would s...
Lynn, I don't even really quite know what this is. And by "this," I mean this piece of writing as well as what we are to one another. I know only that I feel like the best moments of my past five years have been those that I've spent with you. And they are but moments, in the broader scheme of time and our married realities. We met first on social media,...
Let me say a few things about myself before I try to show how my life as changed in my later years. I am a fifty six year old widow. However I have been married three times and have given birth to three children two sons and a daughter. I was married young the first time and my husband was killed in an auto accident after one year while I was pregnant with m...
There is no sex in this story. Sorry. * The confrontation The Yuengling Black and Tan was warm. It was ice cold when I sat down. She would be home soon. She was always at home when the kids got off of the school bus. I had the drapes drawn, because the sunlight coming through the living room window was depressing. Right now, today, the darkness felt war...
The Christmas season just began and our social calendar was starting to fill up as we approached the big day. My wife and the other ladies on the block were putting together a Christmas party for the upcoming weekend. Our neighborhood is best described as being young families usually with two kids, upper 20s low 30s was the general age range on our street. W...
Kayla got home as late as she always did after a day shift and she went upstairs to change before she did anything else. She discarded her pale blue nurse scrubs in the hamper in the bedroom and dressed in her yoga outfit and headed out to the garage at the back of the house. When she had moved in with Brandon he had converted half of the garage into a small...
Preface: To bring my readers up to date, let me summarize the recent facts of my life: At the time of this story, I had been living for over three years in a committed relationship with my partner Sylvie, whom you may have met in my previous stories. I was 4 months pregnant by Sylvie's brother Phillipe. Phillipe and his daughter had spent the week prior...
Peter Samuel Albright's soul left his body as he was walking home from East Finchley station one breezy October Monday. The separation was quick, painless and complete. It was miraculous! "His body"? His soul? Whose? Is the body, which is now walking towards the front door of his house, the property of the Spirit? Or, vice versa, is the mass of cells coll...
Her name was Julie. She was first cousin to Diane Carson, my bride-to-be. I had known Julie since childhood, but a week before my wedding, I learned that I did not know her at all. I was at a party thrown by Diane's mother Nina at the Carson's lakeside manor. It was not to celebrate our wedding, just a family and friends get-together. The Carsons were never...
ONE When Alec Tiplady went into mourning after his wife of 23 years left him for a newer model, departing after her divorce for a new life in a new country, his two daughters Nina and Dolly worried him greatly. They worried him so much he was unable to work through his grief comfortably. It puzzled Alec why his two daughters were unable to resist filling...