"What happens when you can't have the one person you want most?"
After an hour and a half of driving, the tour bus finally pulls into a parking lot of a simple motel. The walls are yellowing, indicating age and the doors to the rooms have rustic looking numbers nailed harshly to...
"In Part 1, lonely Dan didn't know that lonely Roxanna had found him; now Dan finds Roxanna"
For about the thousandth time, Dan pulled one of those red three-ring binders down off the shelf at the dating service he had joined. These metal-and-wood bookshelves lined the exterior of the room, from floor to ceiling. Red binders full...
"We both got what we needed."
Two Years Ago ***** Lisa was sitting across from me eating Paige's steak while we talked. When she laid her fork down and took a sip of wine, I heard a soft sound, a thunk. When I felt her bare foot...
"A teen abused at home finds love and tenderness with an older man."
I had returned home about noon Saturday to find the beautiful, 18-year-old, Alex sitting on my living room couch, sobbing. Her cell phone lay in pieces on the floor. To my surprise, after I held her a few moments, she...
"He applies suntan lotion to her in a hammock"
Lying in her hammock in her garden, she closed her eyes momentarily to savour the thought that he was fetching the suntan lotion and would soon be applying it to her body. When they slowly opened, they shimmered with anticipation....
"Young lovers torn apart and separated by more than distance"
Dust particles floated in the sunbeam that cascaded through the small window. “Terry’s Cleaning” stretched with the dark blue shirt as the wearer stooped and shifted boxes that had sat undisturbed for decades, transferring them down small stairs that protested...
"What goes around does indeed come around."
Chapter One (of two) My name is Darnell Lamm, that's Lamm with two M's. I'm a clerk at Bradley's Super Market downtown, or I was at the time this story begins. This is my incredible story. ****** "Okay, Sam, I'm...
"As the Bard said, All's well that ends well."
The job was cook's assistant: ten bucks an hour. I learned the ins and outs of the kitchen fairly quickly and the rest of the business piecemeal as I went along. I was determined to do a good job and...
"An abused woman and her son find shelter and love at another man's home."
I was twenty-eight or so when I met Melanie Brown. I had been visiting a family member on the north side of Phoenix, Arizona when I spotted her and her little brother watching me. I was driving a small, open air,...
"Tamara felt the bubble burst and it was a joyous feeling of strength and freedom."
As Tamara made her way to her office, she couldn’t hide her good mood as she passed Billie at the desk. “Good morning, Billie,” she smiled as she walked straight into her office leaving Billie wondering. Billie was on the...