A fathers love

My Daddy always loved me. For as long as I can remember. Mom was never really around, she was always busy doing something else. Something that never seemed to include my dad and me. She[…]

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Surviving dawn pt 6

 I awoke to the dim red light, the bunker completely silent. I rolled over and kissed Amber on her forehead before climbing over her and covering her nude body with a blanket. I slowly made[…]

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Accidental beast

You come home from work tired. It has been a long day, made worse by your worrying about me. It has been a week since I was turned into a dog. Gene splicing… it technically[…]

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Enough time now

“Enough Time Now” 1 Jeremy Bynes doesn’t know how to say it, exactly. He has been trying to say it for minutes. Every time the sentence forms on the tip of his tongue and he’s[…]

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Luck and love: xi

When Mike woke up Tuesday morning, with Candy in the bed next to him sleeping heavily, he grinned. Today Zoë got back into town. He checked the alarm clock (6:34) before turning over and looking[…]

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Office encounter

“Damn it.” Kaylee looked at the figures before her for at least the 10th time silently begging them to add up. She hated numbers. They never came together right for her. It was so infuriating.[…]

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New to swinging

My wife Allison and I were sitting on our deck, looking at the ocean, just six steps up from the sand. We were finishing our third bottle of wine while we talked. It was about[…]

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The oldest dance

The Oldest Dance Sylvia Mills would not have expected as dull a person as Kevin Dooley was to know about a spot as interesting as this one was. Like a lot of dance places, the[…]

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