The rest of the girls were already luxuriating in the cool, roiling water by the time I managed to reach the whirlpool. It looked to be big enough for eight to sit without touching. The hot tub was about the same size. Marissa obviously had some money. Lord, that cool water felt good. I sank down with a sigh, and Marissa sat down right next to me. “Mmm... Thank you, Carl,” Janey remarked while splashing water over her bre...

It was a bittersweet day. With the paychecks for going on my first couple of big jobs in the bank, I could safely afford my apartment, truck, as well as the property tax, maintenance, and electric bill on my grandfather’s old hunting and fishing cabin. The boss had even quietly given me a cash bonus once he saw my welds and how efficiently I laid them down on that first warehouse project. He told me that he’d do everythin...

The dryad sleeps in slender stems, and new green leaves. Born of two souls mingled, the dryad dreams. One died for love of the land and a friend. One passed in her dotage, but was content in the end. Xantwilla’s soul lingered where her charred stump remained. By love and fey magic was her spirit sustained. For Penny she waited, her life incomplete. She knew that one day, they would once again meet. On a night blessed by t...

It was about midnight, the house was quiet, and I was bored out of my mind. I was only a few months from eighteen, and I was still saddled with the while you’re under my roof thing. So, out the window I went. A quick walk across the laundry room roof to the clothesline pole and a drop to the ground set me free. I didn’t have all that many options available to me. One of my friends who lived within reasonable walking dista...

Mike started awake, but any irritation he felt melted away when he saw his wife smiling down on him. Her sheer nightgown did virtually nothing to hide her breasts, and she had her hand wrapped around his morning erection. “Good morning,” she said. “Sure is,” he agreed. He kissed her hard when she leaned in. Even after fifteen years of marriage, he couldn’t get enough of her. She looked just as smoking hot to him at forty...

Logan stepped out the front door of the apartment with his beer and took a deep breath of the night air. For the first time in his life, he had a place of his own. It wasn’t much, but it was better than living at his parents’ house or the dorm at college. No rules, no roommates... And almost no furniture, but he’d take care of that eventually. The thumping sound of speakers coming down the road intruded on his quiet night...

“Last day. Lucky S.O.B.” Rick hit the clock and chuckled as his co-worker Dave gave him a friendly punch in the shoulder. After two long years of working at the chicken joint, he was headed off to college out of state. The tedium had really begun to wear on him the last couple of months, and he couldn’t wait to finish his last day. A familiar voice emerged from the small office in the back. “Don’t think you’re going to ge...

Lissie’s eyes lit up when she turned to see her husband walk in the door. “The jerks let you come home before midnight?” “Finally. Probably just start up again next week.” The two shared a kiss, and Brian felt blood rushing between his legs. The sudden surge in hours at work had left him too exhausted to do anything other than take a shower and go to bed for the last week. It was the longest they’d gone without having sex...

It was a beautiful, late summer night. There was a bit of a chill in the air, but nothing a light jacket and jeans couldn’t remedy. The moon was full, so I kept the fire low – barely more than the coals I’d used to cook dinner earlier. I’d finally earned a week of vacation at my first real job, and I was indulging a long-denied need to get out of doors for more than a night. All my friends either were off to college or co...

Jeff put his last box in the wall after hearing lunch break called over the intercom. He nodded to the second shift guy who would be covering his truck while he was on lunch. “That big stop is coming up, Kline. Watch how high you’re stacking the liquids,” he cautioned on the way out of the truck. “Okay,” Kline answered with little indication he’d heard a word. Jeff sighed. He expected the truck to be a disaster by the tim...

It was a lazy day. A little after lunch, I forced myself to knuckle down and go through one of the online training courses my uncle had put on my plate. I knew most of it from working for him at his plumbing business officially for the last couple of years, and unofficially for quite a bit before that. He knew that I had it down, but I needed to complete the courses anyway to prove to anybody else that I did. It was the o...

John picked up his phone and checked the incoming message from his wife, Tracy. “Going to be another late night at work.” He sighed as he put the phone down. Things had been great for two years. Then, three months ago, the late nights at work had started. Sex was nothing more than a fond memory, and she was distant – at best – whenever she was home. Any attempt to talk about things resulted in a fight. Though he had only...

I have to tell you, friends, it was one of my best days at the sawmill, for more reasons than one. From the moment one of my forester friends sent me a picture of that log, I was certain it was going to be one of the best pieces of timber I’d ever sawed. Black walnut, and not one, not two, but three potential crotches. That alone would have been enough, but when I saw that picture where the bark had flaked off, revealing...

Amber smiled as she heard her son’s girlfriend and his friend both bust out into laughter again, while her son groaned. They were enjoying all his childhood pictures, even if Caleb wasn’t. It was a time-honored tradition in the family. She’d experienced it herself, and her mother had explained that it was how she got through all the times when Amber was being rotten as a child. She knew that one day she’d have the delight...

Of course my wife giggled and took off running as soon as she saw me following. I wasn’t going to validate that by jogging after her, though the temptation was pretty strong. The moment I stepped in front of the bedroom door, her top came flying at me. I put my hands up in time to keep it from hitting me in the face as my bare-breasted wife laughed. She’d already kicked off her shoes, and proceeded to peel off her legging...