This is a follow up to two different stories, “Jenny and Rick Again…Plus His Friend” and “Jenny and Nick House Sit.” House Sit is actually from 2016 and has a brief 2018 update at the end. *** Pam text me on a Friday afternoon asking if I wanted to stop by after work for some Read more
May 14th, 1969 was a day that Kenny Holmes would never forget, and not because it happened to be his 18th birthday either. It was a day that he had been looking forward to for quite some time, and the anticipation was making his heart race as the bus neared the end of the route. Read more
I am an artist who loves to find unusual things to paint on. Doors, rocks and this time of year… pumpkins. There are some wonderful faces to be painted on pumpkins along with birds, flags and other scenes. My husband had built a greenhouse for me on the south side of my house, and since Read more
“Lions and tigers and bears – oh, my! Lions and tigers and bears – oh, my!” That same song lyric played over and over in my head as I staggered blindly through the thick undergrowth, my face whipped by the onslaught of branches. My panicked mind reached randomly for the familiar; a sense of normality Read more
I had no idea what might come of the ad I placed in the Yahoo personals seeking participants in a jack and jill party for the region I lived in. I was also a little concerned about whether people could indeed restrain themselves and simply keep the meeting to a masturbation activity. For those of Read more
We put the key in the door of our first home and crossed the threshold hand in hand. We had just come from the closing and the house was officially ours, ALL 2,200 square feet of mid-century Ranch amortized at 6.34% for the next 30 years of it. For a couple of dykes, buying a Read more
Everyone called him John, but his real name was Juan. It reminded me of how the Pittsburg Pirates called baseball great Roberto Clemente “Bobbie” instead of Roberto to make him more palatable to white fans. The only difference is that Juan wanted everyone to call him John instead of Juan to make himself less Latin. Read more
John and I had always joked about going out for a beer whenever he’d come in for a bite to eat. I’d never seriously thought wed actually do it, but then I never thought I’d do half the things I did with him after that night . . .. It was a night not that Read more
Prologue It was a normal Saturday evening and my wife Betty and I were having a quite evening watching TV when I noticed that Betty had turned quite pale and her face was contorted as if she was in pain. “Are you alright?” I asked her as she seemed to be growing paler by the Read more
“Ladies and gentlemen, this is the Captain speaking…” Said the strong male voice over the cabin intercom. “We’re about to start our approach into Los Angeles International and should have you on the ground in about twenty minutes.” “On the ground in 20 minutes,” Kelly thought as she stared out the tiny window at the Read more