About a year ago a newlywed couple, Nick and Sarah moved into the neighborhood.  They bought the vacant house next to me. Sarah was tall, redhead, and quite sexy. Over the year, we became close friends.  We had dinners at each other’s houses.  We hosted neighborhood parties at my house.  I was the only one on the block to have a pool. Nick and I became close friends.  We both loved to go to the shooting range.  We always...

The wind billowed Karen's blonde hair back as she snuggled close to Bill in his '57 convertible Bel Air. The wide whitewall tires hugged the road as the big heavy car leaned into each twist and turn. A 60's radio station blasted tunes into the air, and they sang along, laughing at each other when they got the words wrong. Bill had his arm draped over Karen's shoulder, and her hand rested on his bare muscular leg. After me...

My family owns a piece of land in the woods near our town.  It’s not a place we use often, just a get-away.  It has a cabin and a lake.  There’s a ‘No Trespassing” sign by the lake, but the sign was put up years ago.  Occasionally townspeople use the lake, and we don’t care.  There is decent fishing, and it’s a cool spot for a dip on hot days.  Surrounded by trees and private, it even tempts some into skinny dipping.  Tha...

It was the summer of 2002. Kelly had been miserable for months. Her work life had been slowly deteriorating for a couple of years. As it seems is always the case, a good boss had left and the new one was an idiot. I had finally convinced her that it was okay to resign without a new job lined up. She’d worked since she was a young teenager, we were doing fine, and I hated to see her so miserable. She spent that spring clea...

Freedom of the PressWhen I was twenty years old I decided to use a newspaper to improve my romantic life. To be more precise, I wanted to create a romantic life where none had existed before. I had gone to the City College of New York expecting to meet girls - or even just one girl, perhaps - as well as get a degree to improve my chances for some as yet unspecified career.By the summer of 1975 between my sophomore and jun...

Hank Martin crouched in the bushes on Dundee Hill. Below the sixty-seven-year-old man was the pond at the back of his neighbour’s large property. A few ducks swam along one shore. They were not what Hank was watching. The object of Hank’s attention was Natalie O’Connell, his neighbour’s niece. The pretty twenty-year-old was sitting on the bank of the pond, dangling her feet in the water. She wore tight cutoffs and a littl...

It was Labor Day weekend of 1979. Kelly and I were nineteen and she would soon start her sophomore year of college. Patrick and Yvonne were our best friends in the world. Since we’d first swapped partners a couple of years prior we had become regular sex partners, especially Patrick and Kelly. Yvonne typically had to be “in the mood.” Kelly, however, was always ready for sex and loved nothing more than having two cocks wi...

Asinine. Noble, I’d first thought, but recently, with a bit more of life in the rearview, I’d concluded that asinine was more accurate. My two best friends in the world and I’d walked away, hadn’t spoken to them in over eight years, because I’d convinced myself, over their objections, that it was best for them. Playing the martyr had seemed to suit me back then, but I’d quickly grown weary of it. Oh, I still sent them eac...

It was Friday, July 4, 1997. Kelly and I had been invited to a surprise fortieth birthday party for a friend of ours. Cliff’s wife Shelly had been planning the party for several weeks and it was quite a shindig. Shelly had a great spread catered in. A co-worker of Cliff’s moonlighted as a bartender and he volunteered to bartend. With a bartender, most of the twenty or so invitees were drinking his delicious (and strong) c...

Bill was wandering through the now small realm that led to where the portal for the processing center was while making sure that Malin followed. He thanked God for that they had finally changed it so it wasn’t that long anymore. It had been about time he had fixed this long road. It had been about time that the Big Boss actually had gotten a finger out and done something. He had been rather quiet for over two millennia. “...