"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...
"Even she didn't know what she wanted"
"Are you sure you're okay with this, Mickey," said Rona. She was watching my eyes very carefully. "I mean if . . ." "I think so," I said. "But, I'm still concerned about it affecting our marriage." "Baby, that is...
"He loves her to the point of pain, but he is just no darn good in the sack."
The main outcome, the way I saw things with Ruby, was that my confidence in my bedroom skills, meager as they still were, was growing. It was eleven o'clock before I'd gotten back from Ruby's apartment. Breakfast had been good,...
"He had a lot of qualities, she said, but one of them was not the biggee."
"I've got a date," she said. "A date? Where are we going?" I said. "Not we honey, just me. Don't wait up," she said. "Huh? What? What are you talking about?" I said. She put on her most exasperated look,...
"He would do anything for her, and that means anything."
It felt a little strange being back after the honeymoon. I had moved into her condo because it was larger, and things went well for a time. We were in love, and each of us was considerate of the other...
"He wimps out, but then, he doesn't, or does he?"
Stacy McCormack and I have been married for the past eighteen years; I'm Julian McCormack. We'd been boyfriend-girlfriend, or fiancés for an aggregate of six years before that, if you count high school, and I do. And, yes, that makes...
"Thebattle lines were drawn. Would be the lover or the hubby?"
"He went for it?" said Gerald. "I can't believe it." "Yes, and that without much of a fight. That kinda bothers me. I mean why didn't he argue with me. I figured I could convince him, but he gave up...
"She's way out of his league, or, is he?"
Love understood as the desire of good for another is in fact so unnatural a phenomenon that it can scarcely repeat itself, the soul being unable to become virgin again and not having energy enough to cast itself out again...