Would you say that a sweetheart romance is one of the sweetest, purest form of love? I used to. Brenda and I dated since high-school. I went through university with her, and when she decided she wanted to be a nurse, I took a shitty job, and I funded her through that. We made it, though. And I never felt more certain about anything in my life. We married, put a mortgage down on a house and started a family. I thought we’d...

I have made a new dress, especially for our date. It is in a shiny stiff fabric, moss green, one of my best colours, with a pencil skirt cut just above the knee. It is nipped in at the waist, and has gathers under the bust. It is too smart for the pub, really, but I wanted to impress you. It is too tight to wear a bra underneath, and I have to breathe in to sit down. The heavy fabric mostly disguises my nipples, but not q...

It was a normal quiet night in. The TV was on, dinner was over and the wine was open. I had the house to myself for a while as Samantha, my lodger, was out at a work do. The film ended and I was just about to go to bed when the doorbell rang. It was probably Samantha who was either drunk or had forgotten her keys. She was great as a lodger and actually pretty hot. She had shoulder length natural blonde hair and kept herse...

In my second year at uni, I used to hang around with my friend John and his housemates most evenings. John lived in a shared house with three others, Ian, Seth, Anna, and Jess, and the five of us always had such fun conversations and daft games together. Fairly early on, John had hinted that Anna had a crush on me; I was the most athletic out of all our friend group and John had let it be known none too subtly that Anna w...

On a hot August day in 1966, the tall skinny figure of a sixteen-year-old boy emerged from a Cotswold stone house. Pushing back the lick of dark brown hair from his forehead, he shielded his eyes against the glare of the sun and looked across to the line of trees, which followed the bend in the lane. As he had already suspected, there was not a breath of wind in the air and he knew that the four-mile bike ride from his ho...

It was the first day of college orientation, and I wandered around the dorms more than just a little confused looking for my room when I heard a familiar voice shout, "Hey, Martin!" It was Henry. It was because of Henry that I'd gotten into this school — a school well-known for its technology programs but better known for its football program. Well, Henry and Ms. Callahan; they had both written extremely persuasive letter...

Charlie: Got switched to the evening patrol today. Would love to spend it looking forward to coming home to you. Come by whenever you like and make yourself comfortable. I promise I’ll make it worth the wait ;) Lacy: No, I’LL make it worth the wait ;) See you then. Lacy had no intention of making this an idle promise. At the end of her own shift in the biology lab, she smuggled out a few supplies she was sure she could fi...

Chapter Ten. I swore as I pulled in. I reached for my shirt and slipped it on awkwardly. I had my pants in my hand and stepped out of the car to put them on as fast as I could. I bent over and hitched them up as fast as I could. I was just straightening up when Sally walked through the door into the garage. Our eyes locked and I know she saw the panic in mine as clearly as I saw the confusion in hers. I was fumbling with...