"Finding balance between control and decisions"
Financial District – DowntownIt’s not Friday, but her tolerance for this place may not hold out until then. Since Monday, it has been a flood of meetings and crises, last-minute calls and bottomless emails. Eighteen paragraphs. Eighteen! Who has time...
"Margaret meets Buster at a family park, with a furry out come.."
I slept till noon the morning after Barry, and I had made love during the fourth quarter. Slipping into my fluffy white robe, I went to the kitchen."Morning, Margaret," Barry said, not lifting his eyes from the sports section."Good morning,...
"Baseball's boring. Fucking Connor is not."
By 2 p.m., Naomi had already had a long day. She checked her Signal messages and saw a new one from Connor."What r u doing after work?" it read. "Cum over."Wheels started spinning in her head. After work, she was...
"She goes back to her ex-boyfriend on Valentine's Day"
Another stupid argument. This time on the morning of Valentine's Day. Lara loved her boyfriend but was tired of the antagonism. There was always something to fight over, anything to get the upper hand and make the other have to...
"A young man does more for his aunt than usual."
Antoine heard his mother’s call to him, her sing-song voice echoing in the hallway below.‘You will ring your uncle and tell him that you’ll take the holiday job, won’t you?’‘I have done that already!’ he replied. going to the top...
"For one woman an ordered life is not to be pursued."
She was woken by the shrill bleat of the alarm clock. Jeffrey was off on one of his jaunts that the car enthusiast’s club arranged with almost military precision. His absence would again give her time for herself and to...
"I proposed an open marriage concept to my wife and got burned."
It all started nearly a year ago when I first discussed the idea of an open marriage with my wife Ann. Ann and I had been together for more than thirty-three years and still loved one another, but I found...
"A woman gives in to her baser instincts."
Cynthia brushed out what had once been her ash-blonde hair as she stood before the bathroom mirror and studied her reflection closely. Her flouncy bob cut of silvery grey hair went well with her softly tanned skin. It glowed with...
"A man inadvertently discovers his wife's affair"
It had been an unusually slow Wednesday at the office. I hung around a bit past lunch break before deciding to cut out a few hours early.Things had been pretty chilly between “the Mrs.” and me in the bedroom recently....
"A woman's Kenyan holiday takes a surprising turn."
Cynthia knew that his eyes were on her, even as she chatted with others in the group who had signed up for a day on the pristine beach that was one of many in this part of Kenya’s renowned coastal...