I'm rather short, insecure, and on my fourth wife already. Now she's helping a girl with a school project - in her bikini! Obviously she's beginning to lose interest in me. Well the girl is stunning, to be fair, and so innocent.
Just a little flash story about confronting a cheating spouse. Husband deals with his wife and mother-in-law from hell when discussing what really happened at the sister's wedding.
A story about changing conditions in a marriage and the cost of not dealing realistically with those changes. This is a different story by my standards. It is shorter, harder edged and there are no side trips to exotic places. Like other stories, this has a Hemingway title, which approximates the theme.
Millie's Vast Expanse Offered up for your approval, the life and times of one Elizabeth "Shortcake" Dyer, a woman slight of stature, with an enormous intellect, who pursues retribution with a dogged determination that would make a bulldog proud. A deeply scared woman who never wallowed in self-pity but channeled her rage to helping others. When she ran into brick walls in the pursuit of justice, she manufactured vengeance, for, after all, vengeance has its own sufficiency.
A Damsels in Need Story Jack was the much older bodyguard of Lana. He came very close to fucking her when he took her home after a boozy night out with her girlfriends. He had to look after her again when hubby went on a business trip with his hot personal assistant. Sharing a beach house, with Lana in a bikini and her memories of their previous unfinished encounter were the ingredients for another hot encounter.
It is Valentine's Day and Ken is on time. He has booked a romantic table for two at Lydia's favourite restaurant. Not only is it their 10th wedding anniversary, but 15 years since their very first date at this very table. He sets a bottle gift bag between her knife and fork, containing a tin can (10th means tin or aluminium bepending on your side of the pond) and leans a large white card envelope against it. He gets a text, she's running late. She's been running late for quite a while now…