Month: September 2021

Dan couldn’t believe what was happening. They had taken his car. They had taken his pride. They had probably taken his marriage. He should have known better. He had given in to lust, but what the heck gave the Saint Paul police the right to take his car? On top of that his name was now published on the “bad […]

About a year and a half ago my (now) ex-wife decided she didn’t like being married and told me she wanted a divorce. It was also about a year after she decided that “kinky” bedroom activities are for young people and that as a married couple we should be having more “normal” sex. When we first met, she was very […]

Her boss was infuriatingly pretentious, which was perhaps why she found herself becoming increasingly snarky in her dealings with him. Mr. Sinclair’s office had a “lord of the manor” style, complete with a giant desk and antique telephone. She understood that he had taken over the firm after his uncle passed, but that was long enough ago that he could […]

This story revisits the characters of an earlier story, Some Extra Money. This story stands alone, you don’t need to have read that story to understand and enjoy this one. However, if you want to read them in order, Some Extra Money comes first, then this one. Two warnings: First, a little one. There is some plot and character development […]

They have each lost so much, people they loved and counted on. Luuk is an adopted son of her late sister Ineke. He was once a young child taken from a Romanian orphanage but who has grown up to be a self-confident, even arrogant young man with distinctive good looks and an ego that has brought him into trouble over […]

New Xanadu had been open for 3 months when Susan’s divorce came through. Giver her husband’s wealth and abusive character, not to mention strong support and pressure from his fundamentalist church members, I had expected it to be hotly contested. It started out that way, but thanks to a combination of the legal bulldogs that Mary selected for Susan to […]

It started at a brightly lit cafe in the afternoon. Three friends, all married mothers, were having a conversation over coffee, as they did every Wednesday. This time, however, things were far different. A great deal had happened to all of them recently, and finally, last week, they had shared this with each other. Although their stories were all very […]

I glanced over at Mike, my husband. He was in his element, behind the wheel of his pride and joy, a lime green Lamborghini Huracán Spyder. After cutting the last college tuition check for our kids, this car was his reward, our big indulgence upon fulfilling our parental obligations. It was also something of a delayed wedding gift to ourselves. […]

Books were piled and laid over the table in the back of the old, dusty library. A young woman sipped her coffee and quietly turned the pages, her eyes skimming the yellowed paper with its swirling script until she’d sigh, close the book, and move on to the next. It was the seventeenth hour of the day. She knew the […]

“Do you trust me?” “Yes,” he replied quickly but with just a trace of nervousness in his voice. I slipped the blindfold over his eyes and whispered, “Cinnamon” in his ear. “The safe word,” he said quietly, turned to where I had been moments before. “Uh-huh,” I replied as he jumped, startled because I had moved without making a noise […]