Midlife Renewal, Part One: Awareness

"When I turned forty, it seemed the end of my world as I'd known it. But it was really just the beginning."

Right after my fortieth birthday, as winter was setting in and things were turning gray, my wife Jane filed for divorce. The following weekend, I found myself moving into a dumpy, overpriced apartment. Alone.Not a great start to middle age,...

Across A Crowded Room

"A mature black woman and a young white man make eye contact across a room and it leads to her hotel room"

Every four years, the company for whom twenty-four-year-old Liam Bridges worked held a hotel evening get-together of any staff from the company's eight UK branches that wished to attend. Liam had been with them less than three years so this...

Alison Goes To The Bar

"Alison, a very presentable gurl, goes to a well known local bar one night and hooks up with a mature man"

Forty-six-year-old Alastair Hunter was seen in his local town as a pleasant, well-liked man who kept himself to himself. It was known that he lived alone and sometimes people wondered if he might have a girlfriend on the go but...

Church Work Day

"The brush growing through the chain link fence stands no chance against Estefania and her machete..."

There are about fifteen of us swarming the grounds of Mrs. Jackson's little house. Two weeks ago at work, Ellen and Chantal mentioned that some people from their church were volunteering to do some much-needed work for this elderly lady...

Mum, This Is Stephen – Part 2

"Two more nights remain for twenty-year-old Stephen's stay in the home of forty-nine-year-old Deepti"

Forty-nine-year-old Deepti Irani returned to her bedroom thinking of the fucking that she had just had with twenty-year-old Stephen Illman and the fucking that she was likely to have with him for the remaining two nights of his stay. The...

Red Clay Summer

"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...

Sue And Sheila Go To The Seaside

"Mature friends have a few days away from their husbands and meet two of the local youth"

Sue Lorimer and Sheila Mitchell were two long-time friends in their sixties with Sue being the older by a few years.They were also sometimes lesbian lovers, something that their husbands had no idea about.The two friends had booked a hotel...