Jasmine looked pityingly across the bar at the poor kid. She cracked open another bottle of beer and pushed it his way. His ID had said he was twenty-three, but she suspected he hadn’t been around the sun a full twenty times. Close to it, perhaps. Or maybe he just looked younger to her more mature eyes. It was a slow day. Tuesday afternoons at the bar weren’t a busy time and the only customers were the few regular drunks...

One rainy day, I had decided I wasn't gonna sit at home and wait out the rain. Chicago was amazing in the rain, with the hazy skies and the glistening lights of the city, moving through the wind with the water. I didn't feel the most peppy, but I also didn't wanna mope around my house all day, either. So, I had decided I was gonna go to the coast and enjoy the rain falling on the water. I was gonna sit down, listen to som...

It was a typical rainy Sunday afternoon, and I had the kids with me as their Dad was away with his new woman. We found a coffee shop just before the heavens really opened and a seat just inside the door for some refreshments. The kids were having fun playing a card game they’d been handed by a waitress and I was simply deep in my thoughts about life in general and the work week ahead, when the door opened and a guy wander...

He saw her first; she recognized him staring. Parallel memories reprised when she had loved him, possessed him, and, ultimately, discarded him. His tie removed, she saw the leather band beneath his collar that showed he was bound. That and his stunned look of worship woke something inside her. Pushing her carry-on bag to him, she turned to walk towards the parking lot shuttle. He followed. A decade earlier, she had been m...

It was a glorious morning. I was on vacation and taking a hike along a secluded forest pathway. My camera was finding lots of great subjects for pictures. Nature was posing for me in all her glory. The birds were singing. Some actually sat still while I took their portrait. There were so many flowers in bloom I had difficulty deciding which ones to shoot with my Nikon. The path led up a slight rise. The trees that surroun...

Sue turned towards the bathroom. Looking back over her shoulder, she ordered Mark to get undressed and into bed. Mark obeyed and waited. On leaving the bathroom, Sue stopped in the doorway. She looked down on Mark’s nude shape, on the bed. Even in the moon-lit semi-darkness, Sue could see his rampant cock. Mark did not just look at Sue. He drank her in as she fronted him: Long-legged, broad-hipped, flat-bellied, with the...

Instead of the usual hour, it had taken Mark this Sunday morning only forty minutes to clear the city and reach the open road. It was sunny and promised to become a warm December day. With the window open and the breeze in his hair, it would make for a pleasant, relaxed drive up the Hume Highway to Sydney. In planning his trip to the Hunter Valley, Mark had decided to make an overnight, halfway stop at Yass. When Sue surp...

When I got on the plane in Manila to continue my journey to Frankfurt, my assigned window seat was taken. A child or woman was curled up in sleep or indifference against the cabin's wall. The plane's flight had started in Tokyo, and she or it had taken possession of the vacant seat. I was in a happy mood and let it be. After stowing away my hand luggage, I quietly sat down next to this rolled-up bundle. Close to midnight...

It was a beautiful, sunny day; not too hot, not too cool. I drove out to one of the more remote county parks to relax by the river for a while.  I have an annual pass and didn’t have to stop at the self-serve stand to pay and register.  As I was headed for the furthest point from the entrance, I noticed a blue van already there.  That looks like Amy’s van, I thought.  Sure enough, there were the telltale stickers in the b...