You might say that things hadn’t been going well for me. First off, I had skipped out of a class one day to surprise my girlfriend with flowers, hoping she might be up for a little afternoon sex. She was, but unfortunately, she was having it with someone else, and I walked in on it. With no way to afford an apartment on my own or any desire to return to dorm life, I moved back into my old room at home after that. I managed to keep up with my classes, but the depression that hit meant something had to give. I lost my job, which further limited my…

There is a difference between being a Dad and being a Father. For the first fifteen years of my life, I had a Dad. He raised me up when I was down, scolded me when I deserved it, funny when appropriate and even sometimes when not, and loved me unconditionally. It wasn’t just me either. My five year old sister Grace, my one year old sister Zoey, and my three month old sister Eva were all apples in his eye. He was an amazing man. In fact, there was only one person Dad loved more than his daughters: my Mom. My parents were the quintessential high school sweethearts. They had…

Chapter 1 Temptation I looked at the clock, pressing my palms to my temples in frustration. This was the umpteenth time I lay restless in bed, tossing and turning all night. In my thoughts I cursed Jim for taking that position overseas, to rebuild a third worlds’ industrial base, even though it would mean an earlier retirement and a substantial bonus in the six figure bracket. Three months down, two to go. Staying in bed was a waste of time from this point on. I rolled out of bed and made my way to the shower hoping to wake up. Not getting any sleep left me fatigued as and short-tempered…

This all happened on a Friday. On Saturday morning everyone contributed to a lavish breakfast to celebrate Wallace’s reunion with Vera. The two of them sat like blushing newlyweds as they were fêted by the others. Vera had forgiven Damon for being so bold in bringing them together, admiring his shrewdness in detecting how much she had missed her ex. They spent the rest of the day getting to know each other all over again. But after dinner, Nan came up to her mother with a delicate inquiry. “Um, Mom,” she said hesitantly, “are you willing to—you know, share?” “I don’t know what you mean,” Vera said in an utterly…

The following day I went to the flower shop. I could have sent out for flowers but I wanted to pick them myself. I found lovely red roses and got a bunch each for Anne and Ylva. But then I added four big dark red roses in Ylva’s bunch. I found a Polyanthus rose with many small flowers on and put one of them in Anne’s bunch. I had them sent to the ladies offices. At lunch time they both burst into my office. “You naughty man. To give us roses like that. Well, they were very nice but a real gentleman wouldn’t give us away like that,” Anne said…

Company outings are usually just an excuse to take an afternoon off from work, but occasionally they can get interesting, especially when people lose their inhibitions. *** Chapter One: Unrecognizable. “I don’t usually drink,” said the woman in the passenger seat, and the voice was just as slurred as it had been when she said the exact same sentence a half hour ago. “I know,” I replied, keeping my eyes on the road and being extra careful, because even though I had very little to drink and would pass any breathalyzer test, the last thing I wanted to do was to have to do stupid human tricks on the side…

My son Mark told me he had a new girlfriend, and wanted to bring her home to meet me, I didn’t know the crafty sod had an ulterior motive for doing so, but it back fired on him big style. Its no problem to me I told him, bring her around when ever you like, I’m usually around as you know. I’m Jack Taylor, 45 years old, I live alone now that I’m divorced, Mark works for a firm of solicitors across London, and stays with my ex wife, because its near to where his offices are, and free of course, his old man pays doesn’t he? He comes to…

I was living with at my girlfriend’s parent’s house two years ago when this particular event happened. Jessica my girlfriend who was three years younger than me at the time had just turned twenty and we had been together for a couple of years. Jessica is a size eight, tall, had long legs with long blonde hair and bright blue eyes and she was just drop dead gorgeous. She was shy and still a virgin when we met but after we started sleeping together it was like she turned into a nymphomaniac within a couple of weeks as she was begging for dirtier and dirtier sex. She was like dog…

I somehow knew from the moment I arrived at Emily’s house that something was going on with her mum. Emily and I had been together only three weeks, we had slept together for the first time the weekend before, and it had been fantastic. So it wasn’t an unusual event to be invited back to hers, to stop over, for a couple of nights when she had a job interview close to home. We’d met at uni, and it was towards the end of our last year. Job hunting was par for the course. Emily’s parents were divorced. Dad had moved away, and Emily, when she wasn’t at uni, lived…