"My stepmother tends to my needs when I'm in hospital"
I was eighteen, an amateur racer striving toward a motorcycle-racing career and was earning a good wage already when bang! everything went to shit. I had been in second place, drawing on the leader when someone bumped my rear tire and...
"A serious injury leads to strange abilities."
Everything changed after I died. Three times. Tough day, that. The first two times they worked furiously to resuscitate me, restore a heartbeat, respiration, CPR, the basics… it was sausage factory emergency medicine at its finest, with unsung heroes stubbornly...
"Did she cheat thirty years ago? Did she fall pregnant? Will he ever know the truth?"
This is Sam’s story though the words are mostly mine. He has lived with it for most of his married life. It’s an unusual tale. You might think it’s based on little or no hard evidence but remember that suspicion...
"her nice, safe, conventional life had suddenly become risky, unconventional and incredibly exciting."
The nice, young, married, nurse had never made love at work, or with a black man, or been unfaithful to her husband, but all that had changed. Terri Cummings was doing all three at once and loving every illicit, carnal...
“Doctor Jacobson. Doctor Jacobson. Charlotte!”The voice cut through the haze in Charlotte’s mind. Though she snapped back into reality, it didn’t prevent the reflexive and quite embarrassing, “Huh, what?” from slipping past her lips. She clutched the clipboard tighter to...
"An unexpected offer from a nurse"
Stephen lay with his back propped up against the pillows of his hospital bed. Although he was getting better at it, he was still struggling to work his laptop with his good arm in a cast. His whole right hand...
"Laid up in hospital I give in to my lesbian cravings."
I was floating on a cloud somewhere between sleep and consciousness. Faint sounds reached me from some other planet, the sounds totally unfamiliar to me. My dreams were of my boy toy, Jack. He and I engaged in sexual calisthenics....
A heart fluttersSit, wait, watch wonderWindow sill a bird muttersEyes please open, seeFingers touch, pulse strongLight return to meHours, days, each passSmells assault, from this placeThis surely not the lastBeep, a small changeSounds, a voice says my nameFeet running, feelings...
