"An office affair is more than meets the eye..."
“Really. That’s so interesting.”I hear your voice in the break room and I can immediately sense how bored you are with the conversation.It’s around one in the afternoon. You usually take your lunch later than the others in the office...
"Between Christmas & New Year’s Eve of that year"
I loved my family, well, most of them, but a week of my daughter, her husband, and my two grandchildren, cooped up in my house was plenty. Then add my mother-in-law and wife, we were a bit crowded. The kids...
"Audrey dreams of perfection included a perfect marriage to a perfect husband and perfect home, but.."
James and I had planned to get married for the longest time. It seemed to take forever for him to find the romantic moment for him to kneel and ask me to be his bride.The ring was perfect. I said...
We all make them, the difference is what we do after we make the mistake, how we see the mistake - a learning experience or a failure.Dr. Julie Alexander had gotten up at 3:00 a.m. to see her husband off...
"Sex god and goddess..."
It had been required of me to go out of town for my work for quite some time. I had rather constantly complained about this as I would get behind on my home upkeep. It would also take me away...
"A recently-widowed woman suspects that her neighbour is secretly watching her."
'Hi, Ali.''Hi, Vera.'I actually smeared her name, blurred the V into an M and faded out the ending too, so she probably only heard Mer, or Ver. It was embarrassing, but what could I do? She was standing on the...
"Lizzie brings a new member, last in the series."
It was a lovely evening but there was a chill in the air. The first hint that summer was giving way to autumn. It had been a lovely day with warm sunshine but now the evening had taken over as...
"Another in a series of short stories about housewives."
Evelyn was at a crossroad in her life. At forty-five, with her two kids away at university and her husband working long hours and travelling, she was struggling with how to fill the hours of the day she was alone...
"They kept the light on for us."
I had placed an ad on a well-known hook-up site (at the time) and surprisingly got an almost instant reply from a married woman about a hundred miles south of me. Perfect, was my feeling, close enough to be accessible but far enough...
"A person who never made a mistake, never tried anything new."
After hanging up, Charlotte went into the living room and sat on the couch next to Jamie, who was still playing his Xbox. He was so engrossed that he didn’t even notice his mom peeking at his erection as it...