"You can learn a lot in a library"
It was my turn to close the branch library, so as closing time approached, I was going through the closing check list. Day was almost done. It had been a long day and I was looking forward to getting some...
"The Morning After"
As I woke up, the sun's rays were entering through the slats of the blinds. I could see it in stripes painted across the room's walls. My mouth was dry, and I was confused about where I was. I had...
"Panache before Punishment"
She had a thing about panache so the Audi A5 convertible had to have the top down even though the tropical sun threatened to boil the blood in her head and turn her eyeballs into aching migraine globes, unmitigated by...
"The consequences of shoplifting."
Evie, my eighteen-year-old stepdaughter, and I decided that a girl's day out of shopping and lunch would be the order of the day. Evie had just graduated from high school. My husband and her brother would be gone until Sunday...
"Our true story of our first experience with another man..."
When I woke up it felt late. The room was bathed in sunshine, and the bed was empty. I sat up, looking for my young Asian girlfriend May, it was our first holiday together, just twenty-four hours earlier we had...
"Kelle after a grueling 60 minutes at Mayhem Crossing, a notorious biker bar, contemplates a return."
Kelle wasn't fucked. Not this time. There was no lost bet. No agreement to complete. Yet. Mayhem was on her mind. It had been a few weeks since her near debauch at Mayhem Crossing, the local biker bar. She had...
"A shy librarian has her life shaken up."
Theresa was born to be a librarian, and she knew it. Even as a child she’d been obsessive about orderliness and organization. Every toy had its place, and her books were always alphabetized and upright on their shelves. If she...
"Major Susan B. Anthony discovers the joys of submission."
Too many ironies, thought Susan, drunkenly. Too damn many ironies for one day.She reached for the bottle on her desk, but her hand went where the bottle wasn’t and only succeeded in knocking it into the wastebasket.Hell with it.She folded...
Later that evening after they had returned home and eaten dinner, Jack was in the living room sitting on the sofa. Olivia finished loading the dishes into the dishwasher, wiped the table and then walked into the living room. Surprised...
