"The Voice could make her go places she had no idea she would ever venture to go."
Taking another sip of my scotch, I realized that my cheeks actually hurt from smiling for the last four hours. My speech at the Regional Nursing Association Conference had gone better than I could have ever expected. Then I shook...
"I was unfamiliar with the proper etiquette of sleeping with someone that wasn’t your spouse."
“I haven’t seen you at church much,” I said to the neighbor. She was getting ready to leave somewhere, gracefully sliding down her long driveway. From over the fence, I had watched her lock the front door behind her, and...
"She wants to know how work is going. She also wants to tease the beast within."
I look up and there you are, walking across the warehouse floor toward the stairs to my office. I'm not disappointed to see you, just surprised.How did you even get in here?Then I notice Fred walking beside you and it...
"The Voice could make her go places she had no idea she would ever venture to go."
I couldn’t help but stop to take stock of how well things we were going for me right now; the divorce was FINALLY complete, I had actually met someone interesting on the new dating app my friends signed me up...
"He discovered something new built into his Confessional"
I have sat on that uncomfortable bench seat for years, listening to people droning on and on about their sins. It uses to be somewhat entertaining, living an almost vicarious life through my parishioners' sins, but that paled rather quickly....
"The weekend went from one of dread to full-on ecstasy."
Our twenty-one-year-old grandson had moved in with us recently after having a falling out with his roommate. It was to be a temporary situation since we were doing some significant renovations to our home. Fortunately for us, he had recently...
"Uncertainty turns into..."
David and several co-workers had planned for several weeks to have an after-work outing. At 20 years old, David was the youngest of the group. April had talked him into going. She was happily married and 13 years his senior. Anything more...
Professor Sanders stood in his empty classroom. He was waiting for his new model, who was going to pose nude for his next art class, which was scheduled to start in forty minutes. He looked nervously at his watch. She...
"He takes me back to everything I once was"
For me, he is Paris and cigarettes.He takes me to a time when I was younger and the world was gritty: a time of experimentation and wonder.I have not passed into antiquity, but I have passed into experience. When he...
"Daddy goes to a convention and unexpectedly finds a playmate."
“I love San Diego,” Daddy said to himself as he pulled his rental into the Manchester Grand Hyatt Hotel. It was Wednesday afternoon and he would be attending a convention at the nearby Convention Center. It was for suppliers to...