"Aaron meets Crispin in the library"
He doesn’t email me before 4th period but I go to the library anyway, slipping away from my usual crowd before it can even form. I’m neither the ringleader nor the clown, so no one will come looking for me....
"If this was what Christmas Eve looked like, he wasn't sure he'd survive Christmas morning."
The silence was worse than the teasing. At least when Eve was there, the torment had a shape: her voice, her skin, the cruel geometry of her body just out of reach. Now there was only the clock, counting minutes...
"Suzie gets bagged on opening day of deer season!"
It was the fall of 1976, and Suzie had just turned twenty-two. She already had a three-year-old little boy with her and a newly divorced husband. They had been high school sweethearts, and she had gotten pregnant at eighteen. It...
"Peggy Sue goes south of the border for some fun!"
It was the Summer of 1966, and Peggy Sue had just turned twenty-seven and was feeling a little old and out of it. The culture was changing fast as the Boomers took center stage, and she was a 'Silent Generation'...
"Clara's good at pretending, but her desire for Gordon is all too real."
In the days that followed, I waited to hear from Gordon. Of course, I was in his contacts, just as he was in mine, and it would have taken him only seconds to reach out. My in-laws lived fifteen minutes...
"Peggy Sue proves a cock slut beats a cheerleader every time!"
Several guys had asked Peggy Sue to her high school senior prom, but she had her eyes on bigger game. Craig McAdams was the football quarterback, the cutest guy in the class, and all-around BMOC. The only roadblock was Janie...
"Helping the homeless and downtrodden while having fun!"
I had just retired at seventy after a very successful career in real estate and had bought a nice beach house to live out my golden years in. I rode out a real estate boom in Florida and had worked...
"Pleasant surprise in a new city on the very first day"
Chris eased his car under the hotel’s covered entrance, the engine’s low purr fading into the quiet night. He stepped out, drawn by the golden light spilling from the windows, the murmur of laughter and clinking glasses pulling him toward...
"Christmas wasn't looking good until her"
Waves washed up around my feet as I walked along the beach. I paused and knelt, studying a hermit crab. A shadow fell over the little creature.“You seem fascinated by the crabs,” said a female voice. She had an accent,...
"Special deliveries make Christmas"
20th December: Ding dong!Hurrying along the hall, I open the front door. On the step, a neat rectangular box waits to be claimed. I scoop it up and glance around for the delivery driver—they’ve already vanished, but I hear the...