In high school, I worked at a convention center, waiting tables or bartending. At eighteen, I could legally serve drinks but couldn’t drink them. Of course, the real action was behind the bar. Not only did we get to keep our tips, but my manager would look the other way if we fraternized with a guest who hit on us. Of all the events that I’ve worked, my absolute favorite had to be the teacher’s convention, or as we’d grow...

Kasi’s Kouch It’s funny how divorce affects people differently. I never paid much attention to whose marriage had gone tits up, until my wife of twenty-five years up and left me for a co-worker half her age. Now my ears perk up every time I hear that one of our friends has left their spouse. I wasn’t sure that I was ready to date, but I always kept an ear out. That’s how I heard about a young couple from church splitting...

Spending Money 4 Sally happened to be picking up her kids when I got home Friday afternoon. I opened the back door so the kids could pile into the backseat. She glanced around to see if anyone was looking before she groped my crotch. “Penny is spending the whole weekend. Do you think you can stay over too?” she whispered. “You mean like a sleepover, with PJs and pillow fights?” I chuckled. “Yeah. Like a sleepover, but I d...

My senior year of high school was going just as I expected—no friends, no girls, and no prospects. I was a nobody. Even my home life sucked. My mom left us because of my dad’s cheating; unfortunately, I got stuck living with him. Since then, he’d had countless girlfriends come and go. Some would be nice to me, while others wanted nothing to do with me either. Then Cam came along. Not quite the stereotypical dumb blonde, b...

My mother was giving me grief for having my schedule on the refrigerator. “Why is that on the refrigerator, and why is Pam’s name highlighted?” “It’s here because it’s next to the phone, where I can write it down and track my schedule. And her name is highlighted because she hasn’t paid.” Pam was one of my mother’s close friends, and she used it to her advantage when it came time to pay Mom for watching her kids. As much...

Katelyn Price and her husband, Todd, moved in next door with their two kids a couple of years back. It was nice to have a young couple with kids to liven up our little part of the world. My wife and I bought our house on the outskirts of town nearly twenty years ago. It was a nice-sized lot surrounded on two sides by a marsh. We loved it because the only house next to ours was Todd and Kate’s, and the marsh kept developer...

“Ah, Mark. That’s it, right there-right there! Mmm, mmgaaads, a little more…. ahhh, God damn it!” I woke dripping with sweat from another sex dream. I paused long enough to listen for my husband’s rhythmic breathing before slipping down to my office. There were more than a few sleepless nights this week. I couldn’t stop thinking about how passionately we kissed in the woods and the fire that it lit inside of me. The smell...

In for a Penny Mrs. T was scheduled for the following week, and I was surprised to see Sally’s car in the driveway when I drove up. “It isn’t any different than fucking your husband on payday or after they'd done with the yard work.” I overheard Sally say as I walked up. They looked like the cat who ate the canary as they tried to hide the smile in their eyes. “Am I interrupting?” “No, dear. I’m here to take the kids to t...

I grew up in the seventies and eighties, before daycares even existed. Back then, you relied on a relative, neighbor, or someone like my mom. She did it to help out one of her friends whose husband had left her and her kids. Word spread quickly, and before she knew it, she had a full house. During the summer months, she could have as many as thirteen kids in the house, ranging in age from newborns to seven-year-olds. That...

That Kiss My husband and I were leaving a family party when an uncle reached out to hug me goodbye. We leaned in for a cheek kiss, but our lips met accidentally instead. As short as it was, it seemed to linger on my lips. The seconds seemed to stretch on forever. I resisted the urge to open my mouth, keeping my lips pursed in a tight pucker despite my wanton desire. I fought the temptation of grabbing the back of his head...

I was sitting at my desk one afternoon when I heard the neighbor’s two kids playing in their pool. I turned in my desk chair and looked down from my office window into the neighbor’s backyard. I noticed they had another new nanny right away. A young blonde woman about five feet tall: I guessed that she was in her late teens or early twenties. She was kneeling next to a small kiddie pool as the neighbor’s older son drenche...

Tonight wasn’t supposed to be a typical Friday drunk fest. It was Bella’s birthday, and she’d asked Brad not to get too drunk. Brad, eager to start his weekend, was a half block ahead of us before Bella and I could even get out of the car. By the time we’d got inside, he’d already staked out a spot at the corner of the bar and was chugging a beer. As usual, he would try to outdrink us two to one, the rest of the night. Af...

"Not so hard. Not so hard. Yeah, Mmm, that's it. Slow and steady." Jen's breathing became deep and rhythmic as her brother, Jon, diddled her twat. "Do you remember the first time?" "Yeah. I called you Fister Sister cuz you had your whole hand up there," Jon chuckled, remembering back when they were seventeen. "Fuck you! It was only three fingers!" "Bullshit! You hand half your hand stuffed in your twat. If I hadn't walked...

It turned out that Bob didn't have to wait long for their next meeting because Lindsey was waiting on his back porch when he got home from work Monday evening. She'd come equipped with a cold 12-pack and a large pizza. "I hope you don't mind eating pizza," she said, handing him a beer. "I was hoping to eat something else." "And where would you like to eat that?" Lindsey asked as she put the beer and pizza in his fridge. B...

Bob's life hadn't turned out like he had expected. He and his wife, Emily, were heavily involved with their church, with him leading the young adult group and she working in the nursery. They had been happily married for ten years, or so he thought. A year and a half ago, she announced that she was unhappy and was leaving him for a man she'd been chatting with online. He wanted to try to work it out. It was heartbreaking...