"A mysterious encounter on a misty night."
I felt merry as the bouncer opened the strong steel door.'Blimey!'A dense mist had enveloped the narrow passage. In the five years I'd frequented the club, I'd never experienced such a phenomenon. The days of London peasoupers belonged in the...
"A mature widow meets a slightly younger man who might give her what she had been missing since her husband's passing."
Ruth Davies often thought back to her marriage. It was now fourteen years since her husband Iwan passed away and Ruth, aged sixty-six, missed him for so many reasons.Their marriage, and indeed Ruth's home life before that, had been built...
"I decide to book a cross country train ride to get out of town, I didn’t expect it to be so sexy."
I’m thirty-eight now; it’s been three years now since my divorce. I was recently, unceremoniously dumped over a text message after another two-year relationship that occurred since then. I spent a few weeks feeling sorry for myself before I decided...
"Can a single perfect day alter the course of one's life?"
It was a perfect day.Seabirds cried and wheeled overhead as I walked through the sand near the water’s edge, studiously avoiding the rocky patches that dotted this secluded beach in Northern California. The air was warm, much warmer than usual...
"A man and his mother-in-law have a long standing dislike for each other, until a conversation gets out of hand."
During the eleven years of his marriage, so far, thirty-five-year-old Cole Tibbott had never really gotten on with his mother-in-law, fifty-nine-year-old Charlotte Simpkins.Cole had a good relationship with his father-in-law, Russell, but Charlotte had never seen Cole as being fit...
"A chance encounter at a local dogging spot leads to a mutual pleasure."
There is a spot where the bushes make a kind of cave. There are used tissues, used condoms, and pornographic pages torn from old magazines, fading and damp with spunk, slowly turning into leaf mold. It’s the haunt of doggers...
"He breaks a leg in a cemetary and finds a full time nurse with benefits"
I work in an office with some very nice people. Yes, we have our busy body, Agnes. Agnes slithers through the hall with her cup of coffee, just looking for gossip. And if you ask her, she is the busiest...
"A young woman meets someone her grandmother warned her about."
Chenoa and her friends were sitting on the restaurant’s patio having lunch. The patio was adjacent to the park’s main walkway. On this gorgeous spring day, many folks were out enjoying the park. It allowed Chenoa to people-watch, one of...
"Timmy, the hard luck orphan, gets his break"
Summer 1946.It was another hot day. Timmy’s tie was still in his pocket, and his dress shirt was untucked and unbuttoned, with the sleeves rolled up. His bare chest glistened with sweat. This neighborhood of East Los Angeles didn’t help....
"A housewife comforts a heartsick young Marine"
Jasmine looked pityingly across the bar at the poor kid. She cracked open another bottle of beer and pushed it his way. His ID had said he was twenty-three, but she suspected he hadn’t been around the sun a full...