"Arousal from thunder and lightning"
The power, the beauty, Mother Nature reminding us who the boss is. My hand drifts between my legs as I bend at the window, watching Gaia’s performance across her valley.Lightning like an electric charge, makes me tingle; thunder making me...
"The cheerleaders celebrate and James drops in to their party."
The day of the cheerleader's finals came and I deliberately kept my distance. I wanted them to win for my sister and Gemma too much. I knew where the post-party celebrations were being held and waited to find out the...
"An isolated nursery leads to a very unusual and unforgettable experience…"
I had never been squeamish. At school, I had a friend who had lost his left eye in an accident as a child and had a prosthetic eye. Spooky as this was to some kids, it didn’t bother me. Another...
"Honey was driving way too fast. Officer Brady needed to teach her a lesson..."
Honey Franklin was driving her candy apple red Corvette way too fast down a two-lane Mississippi back road one hot and steamy afternoon. Because of the weather, she had removed the two glass roof panels and was running it as a...
“SQS” read the message on Lana’s phone. The blonde looked up at Sandra Kong with a smile. The techno music at the club was too loud for conversation so the women texted each other instead.“What does that stand for?” typed...
"She's a lusty young woman, and her mother said it was okay."
I met Hannah in a supermarket. The fruit and vegetables section. We were both looking at cucumbers.“Raita,” she said. “I made a curry so fookin’ fierce you can’t get near it so I need something to calm it down.” She...
"Maggie helps her brother recover from a serious illness"
Maggie's brother, Bob, learned he had cancer during his physical examination while retiring from the Army. He was forty-seven years old, a big, muscular, macho guy with a bluff manner and a confident air. Maggie was forty-two. Both had married...
A floorboard creaked in the hallway but there was no footstep. And then he was there, standing in the doorway. With the hall light behind him he was just a big, naked silhouette in the frame, all edges and no...
"Amy has a big surprise for Paul to cap off their date night"
We smiled as we watched my parent’s SUV pull away from the house, waving out the window.“I love our kid more than anything in the world, but I can’t even begin to describe how excited I am to get away...
"Sometimes you just need to let go"
Rick thought he was over his ex-wife until he saw Sally at a friend’s party with her new boyfriend. They had been married almost 8 years until she said she wanted to call it quits. He hadn’t seen her since...
