It was October of 1999. Kelly had met Lisa through her job. Since our trip together, with Lisa and her husband Bob, to Cancun the previous February, we’d become very close friends. We‘d spent a few weekends and parties together since then and each of them...
My boyfriend has some really weird friends and neighbors. One couple, who live just down the block from James, loved to throw themed parties. Costumes are always part of it, but during the party, you are supposed to stay in character. For example, last Ne...
Scott Macintire stood outside of the house at the end of Nettlewood Drive, hesitating only a few moments before pressing the doorbell. It was one of those McMansions that had started springing up everywhere before the housing market tanked: somehow managi...
I sat at the kids table, sipping punch from an impossibly small cup when Pipsy the Clown entered. Her painted green smile hung from ear to ear and a small rubber ball clung for life at the tip of her nose. “Hello everyone! I'm Pipsy the clown!” The childr...
It was not a good day. It was the afternoon of Halloween, and just hours earlier my sort of girlfriend, Lisa, had told me that we were over. I should have seen it coming; we didn’t really connect like most couples do. Our relationship was more a matter of...
It was a frank discussion followed by subtle insult and hurt. A weak attempt at make-up sex did little to address the issue. Our kids were older, two in college and one nearly graduated high school. That latter child was around enough to dissuade us from...
My summer vacation had gotten off to a great start at a long-anticipated sports camp in Montana but it ended just a few days into the first week after I got in an accident and fractured my right leg. I was forced to go back home for a ruined summer away f...
It was Halloween 1995. A radio station sponsored a big bash at a nice downtown hotel at our nearest ‘big’ city, about an hour away. We decided to book a room for the night. Kelly has always been turned on by the whole ‘sexy vampire’ thing, so she decides...
It was her son Adam's sixteenth birthday, and Julie had no idea what she could give him as a special present. She was thirty-five, slim and attractive, with decent 34B boobs, a single parent who worked shifts in the local supermarket, and had no idea at a...
I managed to control my temper when the program director informed me that I would be making a personal appearance to function as an emcee for a Halloween bash. I thought my promotion to full time air personality would change things. I was wrong.Now, befor...
I loathe Christmas. In fact I loathe any prescribed festivity which obliges one to feign good will towards people one is at best indifferent to at all other times. Christmas is especially vile since the people most likely to go into a huff over the gift y...
"I think this skirt is too short. No-one would wear this as their uniform." My husband steps up behind me, his strong hands on my hips. He looks into the mirror over my shoulder and I feel the gaze of his strong dark eyes on my body, drinking in every inc...
It was the beginning of October in my Junior year of college, and I already needed something to get my mind off of the madness of my studies. Since the semester started, I hadn't even thought of the word fun, as it seemed so far out of reach. Halloween wa...
Spotlights chased the sparkling blur of spandex and ponytails tumbling toward the flaming pit below. A split second more and surely the inferno would devour her. A muscular man swung past dangling from a trapeze, and snatched her by the wrists. Applause e...
“Pleeeeease! I don't want to die! You don’t have to do this! Please let me go, I swear I won’t tell anyone!” The girl tied to the chair pleaded, as tears streamed down her face, to her hooded captor, as she struggled in vain to free herself from the ropes...
