09/26/2024
I woke with a jolt and a terrifying feeling I was about to fall from the violently bucking rodeo horse in my dream. But, even now with my eyes open, I wasn’t sure I was properly awake. I was still being bounced vigorously in my seat and there was a cloud of dust all around. It was a disorientating moment, …
09/24/2024
Mitch was tired. Work had been a long, miserable grind of one emergency after another. What he really wanted, more than anything, was a quiet night in front of the fire. A beer, his favorite book, a warm, glowing fire; yes, that was exactly what he wanted. He knew it was a lost cause. Tonight was Halloween.He opened his …
09/24/2024
When the door burst open, Frank was hanging onto the doorframe one eye swollen shut. Angela didn’t know what to think. She got up to rush to him but he said, “Don’t! Just sit back down, I don’t want you touching me!” Angela’s heart started pounding in her breast, and she thought, ‘he can’t know’. But that look in his …
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
The affair had now had three episodes and I was far from sated with her. She and my wife worked together and I had met her at a social function. In fact, my wife had invited her to our house a couple of times. This made the affair both more dangerous and exciting for me, but also more emotionally distressing …
09/24/2024
Some guys would have let Anne slide, but I knew Joe wouldn’t. As I calculated their household expenses in preparation of their tax return, it became obvious why Joe hadn’t been able to get his beloved Panhead chopper back on the road.“Anne, what’s this $327 Visa charge from August?”She frowned, then examined the reciept I handed to her. …
09/24/2024
I heard the door open when you came home. Staying where I was in the bedroom I listened as you put your keys on the kitchen counter, checked the answer machine and called out to me. I remained silent knowing your routine. It didn’t take long before your footsteps drew near. I began to tremble as the doorknob twisted and …
09/24/2024
Mouse invited Alice to a Tea-Party with her friends Henry and Howard. “It’ll be great fun!” she said. “They’re both mad you know!” Their house was fairly ordinary, but when she knocked on the door there was no answer. The name on the plaque quite clearly read Henry and Howard, and the door was open so she walked in. She …
09/24/2024
Monday:Jeff said, “Thanks for coming over. I think I’m doing something wrong. Can you help me?”“Sure,” Carol replied, “What’s going on?”“When I try to import a new document into the system, I’m getting this weird error message. I’m not sure what it means.”“Let’s take a look. Oh, I see what that is. You aren’t doing anything…
09/24/2024
Miranda was 18 and had just left high school, she was going on her first job interview and although she was happy for the chance to get a job before Christmas, she was a little apprehensive about the establishment she would be working for.Miranda’s interview was at an adult bookstore; actually they sold quite a range of adult sex …