THE DIOCESAN RECOGNITION DINNER The Vicar and his Quilting Ladies ride again. Many thanks for the feedback: both the constructive criticism and the kudos, both are greatly appreciated. The folks of St. Dunstan's are expanding their horizons, with your kind permission, and the Vicar will try to stay out of a rut. I tried to persuade Bishop Horace Delacroix t...
Andre's apartment was especially quiet around this part of the week, he reflected. It was a Friday, and people were out. People except him, that is. What did he have to do once he was done with work? Maybe he could go out and get drunk, but it would remind him of Chloe. His best bet for good times was staying in, alone and not bothering anyone. Someone had...
My whole existence is flawed / You get me closer to God. Nine Inch Nails To whet my appetite for dinner, I decided to go on a walk. Blue-gray clouds roiled overhead and I thought about taking an umbrella, but Dallas Raines, the argent-haired spray-tanned flamboyance of a weatherman, forecasted the rain to start around ten or eleven that evening, so I had...
Maria leaned her staff against the wall and unfastened her travel cloak. Hanging the azure wrap on the back of the door, she turned and took a good look at her surroundings. A sturdy, simply decorated, four-poster bed dominated most of the small room. To the left of the bed stood a matching armoire and dressing table, a door on the right-hand side of the bed...
This is an erotic piece of fiction established in the real world. ***** Houses in the sleepy neighborhood of Brookdale bathed in morning fog; Trees mingling with lofty cloudscapes hung overhead, extending past civilization to create a vexing tapestry of flora and fauna. Twilight lingered, dripping starlight onto riverbanks still blanketed in the chill of n...
A short collaboration with raiguy Edited by Sienna She laid face down to the side on the lounger by the side of the swimming pool with her new friend, Michael. She enjoyed his massages, and his soft sweet voice, almost in a whisper. She was still wearing bikini bottoms with an unfastened top, wondering if this new young friend was trying to seduce her. Am...
Two months ago, Men's night out... "Damn! The girls in here are colder than a witches tit tonight," Jim remarked. "Yeah, let's call it a night and go back to Jacks place; at least there we can brush elbows with a young-one," complained Bill. It was one of those nights, like so many others I remembered before Annette came into my life. No matter how hard...
The multimeter's LED screen flickered as the probes connected with delicate circuitry. As the device detected abnormalities, hand tools were applied, cleaning, replacing, restoring. Making the functional the exceptional. Finally, the probes were withdrawn; the tool put away, the cover plate reinserted. I admired its streamlined form, its promise of swift jus...
Turning Fifty - the other side It had been a lousy Wednesday. The weather was lousy, it seemed that everything in the work environment had been lousy, the stock market was lousy, my personal life was lousy. Ronnie was sort of a flash of light as she swung into my office that afternoon, “got a second?” was her introduction to a conversation that usually go...
I don't know if you could call what the two of us were doing dancing, as much as just that drunken bumping and grinding that dancing eventually gets reduced to. Either way, I was enjoying the hell out of myself. I wasn't really that drunk, but alcohol, in my mind, always gives me a justification to be brash with people. Generally I'd be too shy to dance, or...