"George Orwell didn't know the half of it"
Local townspeople were in awe of our new civic library - or the Interactive Literary & Learning Hub as we had been told to refer to it. It replaced a 100 year-old red sandstone monolith, built in the days when...
"Bird watching in the park"
There have recently been sightings of both eagles and osprey near one of our county parks. I’m an avid bird-watcher, so when I heard, I knew I had to try to photograph them. Reports were that early in the morning...
"I watch my wife get a massage."
Based on an actual event based on a massage I did for a husband. I live in a pretty small community and have often looked for good massages in my area. I saw an ad by a local guy who specializes...
"Returning from an evening out, I was delighted to see my roommates again."
The summer after college graduation, I got a rather mindless job, staffing a stockroom at the University biology labs. For a couple of months, it was such a nice change of pace: working 8:30 to 4:30 each day handing out...
"Good timing? Bad timing? A bit of both."
Talk about wonderful timing. I stepped across the bedroom threshold just as she picked up the bottle of lotion.Well, it could have been better. I could have made it home a couple of hours before, when she wasn’t as exhausted...
"Debbie had no idea what vision she was going to behold in the wee hours of the night."
Debbie glanced over at the three tents set up some distance from her, and saw no signs of life. Her boys had completely worn themselves out and barely had the energy to crawl into their tents an hour or so...
"The continuation of Window Watching I was asked for by so many."
Ever since getting the note from my neighbor in the window, I come home and the first thing I do is walk over to the window to see if he is there. I saw him a few times and we’ve...
As the days passed and the time for my assignation with Mr Harris drew nearer, I found myself wondering more and more about this strange man. He was not at all attractive, quite unattractive in fact; he was overweight, he...
