This story starts off where Part 25 ended. Two hours later, we were en route. The journey to Jackson Hole was uneventful, and we arrived precisely on schedule. Tori was waiting for us, and after loading our bags in the car, she asked her dad to drive. She wanted to sit in the back with me and instructed him to activate the navigation system to find the cabin. ********** During the ride to the cabin, Tori updated us. My pa...

My wife and I bought our current house about a year ago. We live in a nice and quiet community where all the houses look similar, with a small little detail to distinguish them from each other. For the most part, it seems to be a diverse community, with a Hispanic family on our right, a Nigerian family to our left, and a black family across from us. Next to them is an interracial couple who also recently moved in, with a...

There are three things you need to know about Ariel, my wife. First, she’s gorgeous. I mean, she might not be to everyone’s taste, but she is to mine. Ari is an absolute shortstack of a woman. She’s short even for a Filipina at a smidge under five feet (I’m sure she’ll yell, “Four-eleven-and-a-half, Kyle! Round up!” when she reads this), with the missing height apparently deposited in some truly magnificent curves. Add to...

The whirlwind first week of our vacation had come to a close. One of the best aspects of that milestone would be that a flurry of new arrivals would land at the resort. Personally, I was really hoping for some people who were somehow different from the current roster, whether that be age, body type, race, etc. I kept a sharp lookout for the newbies as they slowly trickled into the resort. It didn’t take long for me to spo...

As she was swept along a corridor between lessons, Elle caught a glimpse of Miss Preston. She felt a tingle of excitement, recalling the night they spent together. Miss Preston did not acknowledge or even seem to notice her among the chattering flood. Elle wondered how Miss Preston would react after lunch when she was in her class for PE. Elle and her huddle of friends took up their usual place behind the last row of hang...

Ty and Kylie had a nice kitchen. A nice house, truth be told, but the kitchen really was a standout: stainless steel everything, marble countertops, and an impressive cookware collection hanging on the rack over the island. Great view out the bay window overlooking the city, too. In other circumstances, I’d have been surprised that Alyssa didn’t pepper them with questions about their setup. To be fair, she was pretty dist...

As I opened the door to my office, the couple inside were still wiping tears away. The tears were happy ones, thankfully; their fertility problems hadn’t been insurmountable. They were going to be proud parents in eight months, if everything went according to plan. The outcomes weren’t always so joyous, but these were the moments that I loved, the ones that made all my time in medical school worthwhile. My wife was sittin...

Several years back, I made multiple visits to a major city in SE Asia, often of two to three weeks duration. I was taking part in the planning and pre-mobilisation of an offshore project. This project was to take place elsewhere in the region but the excellent support facilities in the city were vital to get it up and running. The main contractor for the project had a modern office in a new office block. Their office mana...

Paris, 1962 Inside Bohemia After Dark, patrons squinted through an ashen haze at the nightclub's featured combo. Stained indigo under mood lighting, a quintet of animated ebony carvings whisper-shouted wordless, haunting languages. Cigarette embers winked; wine glasses clinked; heads nodded with appreciation as notes jitterbugged in a tempo hurricane. The tenor man dismounted from the rollercoaster rush of a melody he'd r...