Only one naked Stories

“This weekend is going to be so much fun,” Janet said as we parked in front of a two-story beach house in North Bay. It was a nice spring morning with a blue sky, miles from civilization. “How did you get such a great place?” I asked, for all of the homes on this stretch of coastline were very exclusive. “My cousin works for a real estate company,” Janet explained. “This house has been on the market since last winter. The...

Sometimes friends aren’t who you think they are. I wasn’t doing well at Wahoo Cumberland University, my grades middling, the tuition high, and I was the lowest totem on the track team. But at least I had one friend, my good buddy Gary Conrad, who I’d known at Midvale Valley High School. We played a lot of sports, dated girls, and had daring adventures. I trusted him completely, until that day that everything seemed to cha...

THE DARE Times had not been good. Kemper & Kemper Imports in Portland where I was a financial analysis laid off half the staff, and just when it looked like we’d be hired back, it folded. The meager weekly checks from unemployment weren’t going to keep me in my apartment and buy food at the same time. My savings were shrinking, what little family I had couldn’t help, and my credit cards were maxed. Still, I figured someth...