Ron couldn’t keep his eyes off his pretty blonde assistant. She’d come into his life about a year ago when she had answered an ad for a lab assistant. He was 51, she 26. Since then they had worked closely on a number of projects, lately one looking at freeze tolerance in mouse stem cells. Traci was smart and sexy and surprisingly, very shy (at least so he thought). She was tall, probably around 5’8″, slender,…

Josh was an only child that went away for college, but moved back to a town near where he grew up when he entered the job market. He never wanted to move too far from my high school friends and being close to my parents was a plus. The job was good and he was happy being home. One of the perks was that if h was out drinking he could always crash at his parent’s…

My finger hesitated above a contact listed as “Mr. Mendoza.” Maybe it was a bad idea to call him – the favor I needed went a bit beyond what was expected between an 18-year-old & her friend’s father, & we hadn’t known each other very long. His daughter Maddie went to a private academy while I went to public school. We met when we both started volunteering at the community center & became fast friends. I…

“They have five couples signed up for the Hawaii holiday, I really wish we could afford to go with them,” said Niomi. Jack, her husband replied, “The others got in to this complex long before we did and they have much smaller mortgages.” “I’m thinking of an exclusive fundraiser, just the other couples.” Niomi and Jack, in their mid thirties, had been together for a few years but had only bought their condo three years ago.…

This story is based on a really early experience I had. It starts slowly, but that is the point – the time taken meant everything in terms of how I would come to define attractiveness in a man. Please stick with it and don’t forget to vote and comment. I suppose I never really thought about him in a sexual sense until that moment. He had been our neighbour on the other side of our road…

Jake Peterson hung up the phone with a grin on his face. Laura Higgins! He never thought things would have gotten this far. Now he had a date with her this Saturday, just two days away! He went to the refrigerator to grab a “celebratory” beer and flicked on the television. “Laura Higgens,” he thought to himself. True she wasn’t what he always thought to be “his type,” but he had to admit, he could bend…

Winter came early and hard. After the first snow it only got worse. I’m a forty year old widow living on a fixed income in an old house that needs a lot of work. I thought we could get through the end of the year when I would get a small endowment from my husband’s last job. My son Andrew is eighteen and needs a lot of clothing as he is growing like a weed. He…

Dan was a well-adjusted 18 yr. old. He is into video games and sports. He especially likes football and wrestling. He is very good at both. He hasn’t decided if he is going to college or not. He is still a virgin in spite of all the offers he gets. He dated a few girls, but none of them fired his rocket. He dates them so no bad rumors get started about him. He is just…

Mary was getting tired and slightly frustrated. It was a stifling hot day, and she was going door to door selling raffle tickets for the school in Africa her church was sponsoring. She understood that the economy had slowed down, but to her, even in tough times, by giving of yourself to others you prospered. This philosophy came from her strong Christian upbringing, and the fact her father was the entire church ministry of their small…

Growing up in our house, I got used to seeing pentagrams and various strange designs and symbols. Every bed had it’s own “dreamcatcher” made of specially chosen colored yarns and organic herbs hanging from the ceiling. There were always fragrant spices and gnarled roots in the garden that were brewed or boiled to produce homemade remedies and charms. The Summer Solstice and Halloween were a festive time of family gatherings and celebrations featuring bubbling concoctions and…