09/11/2024
The next morning Ben moved the boat through the reef and we anchored in a small bay. The island was nothing like the last one, it was full of lush tropical growth and had a long sandy beach. It was beautiful. The women were already at work cleaning the boat, and Ben and I ate […]
09/11/2024
Friday afternoons and evenings always started and ended the same, week after week but this weekend was to change all that. My wife and I and my best friend always headed for our local watering hole for a few pitchers of beer after a long day of hitting the books. The three of us attended […]
09/11/2024
Communicate. That’s the bottom line. Whatever it takes. The advice had been from Sharon’s psychologist. After the ‘trial’ separation, she went to Dr. Foster looking for answers. Tyke had refused to go to the psychologist. He was really bitter. ” I don’t know how I can, ” Sharon protested to the doctor. ” We just […]
09/11/2024
“Walt, I think it’s time you and I got together to settle a couple of old matters between us. My address is below, along with my phone number and a picture of all of us. Me, Mitch, and the sons are looking forward to seeing you soon. Love, Carol.” I held the letter in one […]
09/11/2024
I headed back over to the shop, feeling so good about things that I got totally and completely lost. I got so lost I couldn’t find my way back to the hospital and Chris’ office again. I finally guessed that the mountain should be on my right. I was just about to stop and call […]
09/11/2024
I don’t know what time it was when I finally woke up, the sun shining into the room, blinding me and making my head pound. Through slitted eyes, I looked around the room, immediately noticing that I was no longer in Helen and Connie’s bed any longer. The other thing I noticed was how much […]
09/11/2024
Alun knew that he was onto something by the looks she gave him. He hadn’t set out to get together with a woman. He had just gone out for a drink at his local and met his friends. One of them, Vicky , had introduced him to Liz and they had got on like a […]
09/11/2024
I am a fifty year old man, 6’3″ tall and 225 pounds. I work out so I look and feel much younger. I own and operate a photo studio and lab, specializing in “personal photography” and weddings. We have had a rough winter in our coastal community and we have been slow in the studio, […]
09/11/2024
After exhausting my welcome at my Aunt Maggie’s house, I was for- tunate enough to be extended an invitation to stay at my maternal Aunt and Uncle’s house in a nice, cozy part of Southern California (far enough from L.A.!). While attending one of Southern California’s better colleges near L.A, I am the just another […]
09/11/2024
Something was up for sure when I came home one night a couple of months ago, from college to find my Mother, Nancy waiting for me with her dark hair loose around her shoulders and the lacy, sexy white gown, that she’d worn on her wedding night for my Father who had died years before, […]