09/24/2024
“Tell them that I am looking for a wife with traditional values.”I am talking to your father and mother. You are a beautiful young girl. I have no idea how old you are. You look very young, but your parents consider you marriageable.“They don’t trust Americans. They were hoping for a husband who wasn’t a foreigner.”“I have …
09/24/2024
When I wrote “Anna, Susan, Sandra, Sis, and me”, it was a personal experiment writing a story as dialog only. I didn’t get much feedback but three out of the four letters asked for a sequel to the story. This was never my intention but when I read the story again, I realised that the story and characters held promises …
09/24/2024
The Y2K Bug and the surrounding hullabaloo is remembered by people in different ways. For me it simply puts a date, New Year’s Eve 2000, which would mark a transitional point from quiet, ordinary “normal” person with “unusual” secret desires to the beginning of the road to the person I am today.I’m going to skip over the first six …
09/24/2024
Detective Lansing removed his black hat and lightly knocked on the apartment door. A few moments later, the door slowly opened.“Can I help you,” a girl behind the door asked, suspiciously.The detective noticed that she had a cute face. She looked to be a woman of about twenty years old with shoulder length brown hair and stylish eyeglasses.…
09/24/2024
It was working out quite well. I had hired Niki for one of my staff positions a couple months before. She was a little light on experience but made up for that with maturity and attitude. Since I couldn’t get my boss to pay market wages, I was quite happy to have Niki.Niki was divorced and trying to build …
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
The snow was falling gently without a whisper of wind to affect the lazy path of the snowflakes as they tumbled in the cool crisp winter night. Below, the town was spread across the winter landscape everything in view softened by the continuing snowfall. A quarter moon barely lit the scene with a pale silver light.With a swoosh, the …
09/24/2024
It was one of those cold December nights that made me wonder why I stuck around at this job. I worked for the campuse police department at a pretty large midwestern university. As part of my job I had to stand on top of one of the dorm buildings and keep an eye on the parking lots surrounding it. Lots …
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 …