09/24/2024
“Now you’re gonna get it!” I shouted, unable to completely disguise the amusement in my tone.I leapt from the couch, clawing over my shoulders and under my shirttail for the ice cube my laughing step-daughter had dropped under my collar. I spun around.Before me, on the far side of our family room couch, stood my eighteen-year-old step-daughter, Christina. …
09/24/2024
I can remember the day about six months ago when the new neighbors moved in. They were a couple I would say in their mid thirties with a eighteen year old daughter. I saw them move most of their stuff in as I always spend a lot of time working in the yard on the lawn or trimming the shrubbery. …
09/24/2024
Cal was late and it wasn’t like him and he didn’t want Aunt Paula to be mad. It was Tuesday too, his lesson-day, and Paula had promised that today’s would be important. He was already apologizing to her as he came through the door.“It’s okay, honey,” his aunt said. “No harm done. Today’s a biggie, though.”As he unbuttoned …
09/24/2024
Let me begin by introducin’ myself: my name is Jefferson Daniel Atwater, everybody calls me JD. I’ve lived my entire twelve years right here in Centerville, Alabama. It’s a small town, the population is under 500. I live with my parents and two sisters: Daisy is sixteen, Rosie is ten… soon to be eleven. Things here in Centerville generally move …
09/24/2024
It all has started with the renovation. We have lived in our house ever since I was born, and that was fifteen years before these events, so it became really necessary, the renovation. And while I was sitting in my room one afternoon I’ve overheard mom from her bedroom giggling, and a murmur of the repairman. And then mom said …
09/24/2024
I was blessed in life. I had a beautiful wife, Ashley, and she gave me a gorgeous little step-daughter when the two of us were only twenty-one. Like her mother, Emma had light brown hair, blue eyes and a thousand-watt smile. My perfect world ended ten years later when Ashley left us without warning. Part of the reason I had …
09/24/2024
From the moment Tyrone McNeil laid eyes on the young wife of his newest employee at the company party, his mind had gone into overdrive to conjure up a plan to nail Mike Melton’s beautiful wife. As Tyrone wasn’t the kind of man that had women lining up to spread their legs for him, he had to resort to cunning …
09/24/2024
Karen’s father had left some years ago. She saw him occasionally for about six months after he left, then he stopped coming around. It had been hard, but she, her mother, and her younger brother had survived. Her mother had started dating a man and things were getting serious. Karen didn’t care either way, but he seemed to make her …
09/24/2024
“DON”T leave the kitchen sink in such a mess like that!” “What mess? Its just a few leftover soap suds.” “It drives me nuts.” Well, she drives me nuts, too. Once again, I couldn’t get anything right. Why can’t she just chill out, lighten up, stay cool, or whatever slang the youth of today would use to describe it? It …
09/24/2024
Its been about two months since Carmen and Peter moved into the apartment behind mine in the big old Victorian mansion on Rose Lane. Jeff and I became friends with this older couple and I immediately appropriated Carmen as my running partner. I had been looking for a running companion for some time and Carmen fit the bill perfectly. And …