"Anna offers some fast food for Steve"
After adding the lunch dishes to what was already in the dishwasher, I started it, and dressed for Mass. I wasn’t sure that Steve would be at St. Michael’s on Sunday, but since he had been at a bar with...
"The play gets hot for Jen..."
My wife, Jen and I have been married for six years and for the past four years we have been a part of an amateur dramatics group in our small town in Louisiana. I am thirty-six years of age and...
"A man and a woman make a home together."
She looked at the white-and-gray metal box with the big round porthole. Her arms were crossed and her brow was knitted.He glanced at her sideways, a small curl of a smile hiding in the corner of his mouth, underneath the...
"Nozomi gives Darren a helping hand on the sofa."
Three days later and Darren hasn’t stopped thinking about the night he got to share a bed with Nozomi. He is having sort of mixed feelings. He wishes she was awake when he finally had the courage to make a move....
"A beautiful French student brings joy to a lonely widower"
I knelt at my wife’s grave and laid a bouquet of her favorite flowers on it. It had been three years to the day since I laid her in it. Memories raced through my mind; our first date, our first...
"Christmas Eve, and the giving of gifts"
‘Twas the night before Christmas…Now this is the way to spend Christmas Eve!The halls - or at least the room - have been decked for Christmas, with a blue spruce spreading its heady scent through the living room. All the...
"Matilda is lost inside. Will a map show her the way?"
Matilda nervously settled into her cramped plane seat. She nervously ran her fingers through her long, curly blonde hair. She glanced out the window, hardly believing she was here. Was she crazy? Meeting a man for the first time in...
"A little lying never hurts"
"Didn't mommy say you're not to go into her make den? The rest of the house is your playground. The den is where mommy does her work. Okay? Okay. I love you, bun-buns. Now get your keister into bed. Can...
Rod laid down on the patio lounge to rest a moment. His 49-year-old body was already tired and it was still only early afternoon. The day was excessively hot and he was wearing just a pair of tattered faded red...
"Nina makes a big mistake when booking her summer holiday."
Nina sat idly flicking through a few magazines while she was waiting for her appointment with the dentist. For the last three years, she and her mates had hit Southern California beaches, where they swam, surfed, danced and drank themselves...
