"At her twins' tennis camp, Bianca makes a friend."
In 1998, Matthieu was twenty-eight and teaching tennis at the Monsanto Country Club in Phoenix, Arizona. A year earlier he had been doing engineering work in the Utah salt flats, a quick but well-paying job for the state's Non-Profit Housing...
"Age differences don't matter when you're in love."
“How can you actually want to be with somebody like me?” she asked.“I...I don't understand,” I answered, looking at her in surprised confusion. “Somebody like you?”She sighed, a sad smile crossing her face. “Well, I mean, just look at me,...
"Maria finds a way to relieve some tension."
“Shit,” Maria said, hissing air through her teeth. “Really? Again?” She spun the steering wheel sharply to the left, took a glance in her side mirror, and finished parking before letting out an exasperated sigh. Her 1999 Ford F-150 had lasted...
"Working it for Mama's sake"
Kim could hear her mother's car pulling up to the driveway. She closed the fridge door and popped the last grape of the handful she took into her mouth. She wasn't about to spend too much time talking to Salina...
"Post-apocalyptic story: city girls marry old farmers for safety from roving gangs in cities"
Kelly had moved to Kansas City for a good secretarial job. Her dad had passed away and then her mom. There was nothing left for her in Junction City, Kansas. She had liked her new life of dating, drinking, dancing....
I had sex with an elderly virgin today. He obviously lacked experience; it was over in a minute. The confined space didn’t help; I had to sit on his lap. It was never my intention to turn him on so...
"John and Kate's second meeting heats up."
John sprinted home.Fuck! Fuck! Fuck! he thought to himself as he ran. How did I let things go that far?Now safely back at home, John put his head in his hands and thought about what had just happened. Kate had been shocked when he'd...
"Lockdown thrusts Lauren and Mikey back together."
"I don't like you going out when it's dark and icy," Sarah pouted at Mikey."I need to get the training in. We hardly leave the house because of this damn virus. The bike is my only release," Mikey explained to his...
"A budding exhibitionist finds fulfillment on a bus."
I have a job for the summer, it's just serving in a baker's shop but it'll do 'till I go back to uni. But it's the journey back home that I've found has made me want to do things I...
"There are the old gods and the new. Just how did the new gods capture their thrones?"
Dr. Eloise Vandenberg massaged her neck as she searched the scene below her top floor perch at the Citadel, one of the world’s foremost military colleges. Bumper to bumper in Charleston blocked a flashing ambulance as evening rainstorms erupted. If you were...
