Just after my twenty-first birthday, I started tending bar a couple nights a week, more for something to do than for the money. In my mind, it was better to be hanging out at the bar making money than hanging out at the bar spending money. I worked Mondays and Tuesdays which were usually pretty slow nights, so I had time to hang out with friends when they came in and still keep up with customers. I also got to know a lot...
I’m nervous. Actually, I’m not ready for this. I don’t know if I can do this. I’m in the bathroom of the hotel room I’ve booked for us near the airport. Leah is in the bedroom; I assume she is flipping through her phone, watching NFL highlights on the TV. Waiting for me. I feel like the dog who has caught the car. Am I OK? Am I hard enough? Am I too hairy? Do I have a bod that is more Dad than Bod? “Baby,” Leah says beyon...
I sat lost in thought staring at the flickering candle. Another holiday season was fast approaching. Just the thought of sitting through holiday dinners at relatives' houses that I only saw once a year made me feel nauseous. Great Aunt Betty would look at me with sad eyes and then say, “Oh, dear Wendy, no boyfriend again this year. You're not getting any younger.” “No, Aunt Betty, just me and my dog Echo.” That was how Th...
One of my close neighbours (she lives twenty-one houses away) had a relative I used to work with. I got to know her (and her husband and family) as my younger daughter was in the same primary class, and I would often get them to take her to school for me. After a while, my contact was limited to a cheery hello whenever I saw them. It was a surprise when a knock on my door turned out to be her older daughter, who had just...
Nineteen, my first time, a discreet motel, not romantic but the real thing at last. He was older, mysterious, probably had a wife or girlfriend, but a fan of inexperienced flesh. No strings attached. His figure imposing to mine, muscular, hairy, and well-endowed. I was petite, soft, but willing. He knew what he was doing, I didn't. Impressive stamina, controlled dominance, multiple orgasms for me, and a plentiful one for...
The whole world was shaking, rocking Ian violently from side to side. He opened one bleary eye, groaning as the bright daylight stabbed his brain. "Come on… You promised you would walk the dog this morning…" she screeched as she shook him. "Okay, okay…" he mumbled, and as she left the room, Ian rolled off the bed and slowly got to his feet. He felt like he had only just got to sleep, his head throbbed and his mouth felt a...
“Click-wish, click-whoosh,” the shutter of Marilyn’s Nikon snapped rapidly in staccato bursts. Her impromptu subject pursed her blood-red, pouting lips, her hands squeezing her taut, erect nipples through the thin fabric of her top as she posed, loving being the center of attention in the art gallery. The onlookers—art collectors, critics, reporters, patrons, and the artsy crowd—watched in hushed dismay, their faces masks...
Tanya and her mom, Sally, were living in England for the last ten years, and, then, when Tanya graduated high school, they moved back to the United States because Sally had gotten a great job offer. As luck would have it, Sally's best friend, Rita, lived within thirty minutes of where Sally would be working and she said that Tanya and herdaughter could stay with her as long as they wanted. She said she would love having c...
After Kev zipped himself up and walked out of the toilet, it took me a while to tidy myself and redo my makeup, before then making an appearance back at the bar. As I walked back in, Katelyn raised an eyebrow. “Been gone far too long for that to have been a trip to the toilet. Looking flushed. Fresh makeup. Hun, you’ve been shagging someone out the back, haven’t you?” she murmured, as she handed me a drink. Knowing I was...
Finally, Ted collapsed beside her, letting out a loud exhausted sigh. Pam rolled against him, throwing one of her legs over his. "You are really something, mister," she whispered before lightly kissing his cheek. He replied, "It's not me." "Unless there was someone in the room you didn't tell me about, it certainly was you," she said. Ted looked at her and said, "No. I mean, all of that wasn't me. I can't do that. I can't...
Chapter 1 Late Friday afternoon, Ted and his assistant, Pam, were working on putting together a proposal that needed to be ready to present on Tuesday morning. This hadn't been the plan. It was just proving to be much more complicated than they'd imagined, and upper management had made continuous requests for changes. They were a little stressed over the project as they attempted to keep management's silly demands out of...
The things she does, sometimes unknowingly, make me seethe with anger. My petulance gets the better of me, but her ability to work me up into a testy, touchy, and snarky bitch is beyond belief. She’s been home all day and nothing has been done. As I look around the room my brain adds up all the negatives. The dishes left on the countertop even when the dishwasher is empty, not a sliced vegetable in sight for the evening m...
The acrid smoke from the forest fires hung in the air just above the treetops. The dark haze blocked the sun and dipped down into the roadway as I drove to the cottage. The fires were still distant but I needed to check my place and prepare in the event the winds shifted and drove the flames closer. I crested the hill and was enveloped in the smoke, keeping the windows up and the a/c on recirculate to keep the worst of it...
JOANNA It's my son's school play today. Backstage, teachers and parents rush fussily from here to there amid a flock of costumed kids. It’s not how I usually allow myself to get. But I'm the class's resident Journalist Mom and I’ve let them suck me into this fully. The play's star and guest of honor happens to be an alumnus who went on to become a moderately famous rock climber, and with him, he brings the attention of th...
I had worked for Andy for almost two years as his assistant - or secretary if you like. I was nineteen and he was forty-six. Our relation went from strictly professional to extremely sexual only two weeks after I started my internship when I was seventeen. More about that some other time. Today I want to tell you about a business trip to New York City six months before the pandemic struck. NYC was pretty overwhelming and...
