Bathtub Stories

As I drove through midday traffic, the silence that stretched between me and Winter grew intolerable. Glancing over at her in the passenger seat, I longed for her to issue even one apology, but she remained stubbornly quiet. Her gaze was fixed straight ahead as she wrapped a dark strand of hair around her finger. Immediately, I recognized that absentminded habit of hers. "What the hell were you thinking?" I finally snappe...

Warren and I ate dinner in strained silence, for I'd given up on trying to make conversation. My husband was far more interested in refilling his glass of Cabernet than he was in talking to me. His expression was dour, and as I regarded him, I wondered how a man could appear to age so much in just a few weeks. It had been this way since his company had decided to lay off a significant number of employees. Warren had nothi...

It wasn’t a new format. Politicians had often raised their profile going on invasive reality shows. Housemates, the Jungle, even the sexy Island one had celebrity seasons and there was always a publicity-hungry politician trying to boost their standing, or promote their new, tell-all book. But “The House” was a new concept in National Politics. If the reality shows had proven anything it was that people were better inform...

Sidney's tits caught me off guard. I hurried past her garden-level window and made for the passageway. *** I arrived in Boulder, Colorado, just two weeks before, touching down at Denver International Airport following a four-year stint in the Air Force. *** Alex, a hometown friend from Niantic, Connecticut, had set himself up in Boulder a year earlier. This made my transition from the East Coast to Colorado easier. A room...