09/24/2024
The door to Steve’s shed was unlocked and ajar when I gently pushed it open. “You’re late,” he said, without looking up from washing his hands in an oil and paint-stained stainless steel laundry tub just inside the door. I started to apologize but he cut me short, telling me to “strip!” He sounded definite about it and I immediately …
09/24/2024
It had been a long day of teaching and he was tired and ready for a beer when he arrived at his house. There was a strange car parked in front of it as he arrived. As he parked he saw that it was one of his students, a young woman who had been struggling in his accounting class. He …
09/24/2024
It was at sunset when she meant the most to him.They sat, always the same, on the porch outside her room. He brushed her hair and pinned it back, careful to keep the curls lying flat against the nape of her neck. She had always kept it like this when she had been able to care for it herself. …
09/24/2024
“Hey there,” the pizza girl said, “David?”The question mark is part of the flirtatious game we play, this lovely pizza girl and I. For about six months, at least once a week, I drop by to pick up a pizza for the family. Usually she gives me a big pepperoni pizza, although every so often, I manage to sneak …
09/24/2024
1. Air Conditioner“Unh.”“Unh.”“Hunh…unh!”Again.One more time.Again.One more time.Again.“Yeah…yeah, you like that.”“Unh.”Again.“Unh.”One more time.“Unh.”She takes another swing.“Unh.”It’s not really that I like“Unh.”being fucked up the ass.Not really.“Unh.”Again.“Unh.”One more time.“Unh.”It’s just that that’s all we do.“Yeah, …
09/24/2024
She’d had a good night’s sleep and was now awakening. Drifting, alone with her dream, slowly reaching consciousness once more. She smiled as her dream faded and reality started to return.`I wonder what will happen today. Hopefully I won’t be rushed off my feet at work,’ she thought to herself as she snuggled into her pillow again.Her peace …
09/24/2024
She looked like a 1930’s gun moll. Sitting alone in the bar like that. Smoking her cigarette.Or rather she looked like a 1930’s era actress playing a gun moll. Tough, sexy, sophisticated. Smarter than all the stiffs she hung around. That kind of thing.I had to laugh. She probably never heard of a ‘Gun Moll’. I could just…
09/24/2024
“It will be splendid to have a fine, strong young man about the house, Mr. Brandywine,” said Mrs. Dalrymple, as she took Corky’s hands in hers.There was something unnerving about the half-smile that darted across her face as she looked at him sidelong. Corky didn’t quite remember the moment when he had agreed to become a boarder at Mrs. …
09/24/2024
I was sitting in my kitchen drinking a cup of coffee and cleaning my camera . I was really down and the rain outside didn’t help. I had just turned 78. I had lost my wife last year after a short battle with cancer. I missed her terribly. We had been married for almost 60 years. Little did I know …
09/24/2024
A new year in university — back to residence. Since I was a third year now, I got an actual choice in where I could live. I chose the same room as last year… after all, it had all sorts of pleasant memories for me. My friend Sharla had wanted me to move out into an apartment with her, but…