Month: July 2021

Friday morning was always fun and she never knew what would happen. After she took her daughter to school, she went for a quick workout and then hurried home to get a bath and get ready for her day. Friday was always a mystery as it was the day when her husband came home for lunch, not the regular kind […]

Our neighborhood is quite small. Large enough for a variety of homeowners but too small for a homeowner’s association. Not large enough to be noticed unless you lived there. It’s an unusual collection of homes. Each home was designed and built with no community standards so each home is unique. There are ten houses in all, each inhabited by a […]

The ‘phone call, when it arrived, came as no particular surprise. I’d told Jayne that if she needed any help looking after her father, I and my wife would be pleased to help. Her father, John, a colleague of mine had been ill for some time; he’d been in hospital for an operation having been told beforehand that recovery would […]

The atmosphere in the meeting room in London was starting to become more relaxed as clause after clause of the new sales contract was accepted by his newest (and biggest) US based customer. Francis Martin looked around him and felt that sense of elation he always felt when plans came together. He’d been in sales for 35 years and even […]

She wasn’t biologically mine. Her mother had been three months pregnant when I met her, but my name “Nicholas” was on Daniella’s birth certificate as her father. I’d married her mother before she was born, changed her diapers, taught her to tie her shoes, and bandaged her elbow the first time she fell off her bike. I loved her like […]

“Come on, Sherri, you haven’t as much as spoken to him for almost a year!” Christine Wilson implored. She was on the telephone with her daughter Sherri, a junior at Ohio State University. “I’m a grown woman mom, with grown woman friends. I don’t have time to babysit a boring nerd like Aaron. I thought he was going to MIT […]

Steven, or Steve, felt small compared to the horses at the office, though he perhaps should have thought it stranger than it was that everyone there at his new workplace, well…was an equine anthro. They were big and dominating, tall and looming, coming in all natural colours and even some in unnatural shades too, though that was not something that […]

I know letters are a bit old fashioned, but I don’t think I can tell you this to your face, and I feel it’s too important to send as a text or a phone call. Still, I have some things to say. I’ve been missing you so badly over here in Paris, I miss your smile, I miss the way […]

I’ll never forget what I was doing when there was a knock on my office door. I told them to come in but my window air conditioning unit must have muffled my voice. I’m often told that I am too soft-spoken for a man of my size. Maybe it was my home life or some trauma I don’t remember but […]

May be around eight in the evening the doctor knocked at the door. I was in deep sleep and by the time I opened my eyes he was close to me bending down on to me his hands resting on the bed side. “How are you my dear?” he whispered gently on to me. I was gaining my full consensus […]