As dusk settled over the house, there was a curious calm in the air. He’d been waiting for her for what felt like hours, and the more time that passed, the less intensely the rage pulsed within him. This, in itself, was an irritation. When he first realized, earlier in the day, that she'd lied about being at work (something he'd only discovered because he dropped in to take her to lunch and, since she wasn’t answering her...

It was a moment of weaknessYou caught me in;It was nothing but a frenzy of emotion,Taking me down.Yet you think so much of yourself now,Don’t you?You see it as a coup,When it was nothing more Than good timing for you(And the worst of it for me).Trying to deflect Your acrimonious scoldings;Hoping to escape the Sanctimonious speeches.What could you doWhen I just stopped listening to you? They were years I cannot recoverWast...

(Because I tend to set my stories up rather thoroughly in the beginning, I definitely recommend reading Part One first for the back story) Only a few short hours passed since 19 year-old Riley found herself caught in the midst of a fierce February blizzard, with little hope of help. Her car battery died in the most inconvenient of places; down a seldom-used road in a small northern Minnesota farming community, almost two...

As the freezing, tempestuous wind whistled through the uninsulated crack in the passenger door of her older model Honda, Riley realized she had little choice. She was stuck here, hundreds of miles from her home, in her broken down little hatchback in the midst of a freezing February Minnesota blizzard, and it was quickly getting dark. She chastised herself for forgetting to charge her cell phone, because it died before sh...

I was a nothingFor you,Perhaps a stone.Slate for you to tread uponThrough your journey to places unknown.Your feet scuffed at my surface,And your weight pushed me further into mudIn the rolling river you were crossingAs you arrogantly assumed my love....but I still gave it. I was a something A face not yet nearly worn, Now something you will easily discard As you enthusiastically move on. When you’ve taken all I've offere...

His was not a unique perversion, but it was one that brought him considerable shame. Brendon was in love with a woman and, though he knew it was dangerous folly, the more he tried to talk himself out of it the more deeply wrapped within her he felt. It was not as though it was a love borne of any illicit, unmentionable experience; the truth of the matter is that, as it evolved, it more often felt like the most natural lov...

You Can Never Go Back Scant hours had passed since two former lovers, Alexander and Carrie, found each other in the local library, a moment where divine providence tipped its allegorical hat and offered a chance at righting monumental wrongs. For Alex, running into Carrie was exactly what his famished, exhausted soul needed, and he hung on every word that left her trembling lips as she relayed story after story of relatio...

(This is a novella and, therefore, isn't going to be an abbreviated bump-and-rush, as stories go. Patience is a wonderful, rare virtue in a reader; rest assured, those with it will be happily rewarded.) They were in the library when she saw him. She couldn’t recall the last time she’d checked a book out and, now, seeing him there felt utterly serendipitous…for, in truth, he could scantly recall his own last sojourn to the...

He came to me with soft, careful words, And I took him.He brought to me the touch of a blissful lover, And I felt him. He kissed my skin and stirred its desire, And I laid myself down for him. He captured my heart and fed my soul, And I fell for him. And, then…in a flash It was gone. Gone were the gentle whisperings of need and want Into ears that were hungry to hear them. Gone were the eyes that haunted my own Eyes that...

Whispers waft through a tepid summer air.  A laugh, a splash, the muffled sounds of tongue greeting tongue,  And body yielding to body.  The dark of night defiantly affronted with brash yellow glow,  The illumination of a street lamp threatening to reveal two lovers  As they connect in the cool, clear effervescence of their haven  For now. Shimmering of pool water glowing Over an ever-changing luminescence, Their bodies l...

We met through an online ad, which, by today’s standards, is neither surprising nor uncommon. But this was some years ago, and I was as hesitant about answering her ad as she was about placing it. The fact that I DID was, as it turned out, nothing short of serendipity--for once I met her, I knew I had to have her. What I didn’t (and couldn’t) know, however, was how much she would risk in order to be with me. The ad said s...

He watched her with furtive eyes…the eyes of a calculated man. She came to this bar every night around the same time, and every night she looked woefully out of place in her delicate blouses, shapely business suits, and long legs perfectly complimented by expensive black heels. She ordered a scotch and soda religiously, to the point the bartender, Sonny, had it waiting for her when her bottom, firm and beckoning, finally...