I received a joke by e-mail today and it hit me that there was a short story in that humor. I had to sit right down and polish off this story in order to get back on one of my other stories I was in the middle or writing.
"Neighb..." I mean "Visitors... Everybody needs good visitors!" Why is the rising teenage star of an Australian TV soap suddenly dropped from the show?
A Harvey Marcus Birthdays Story (9) In this episode, Mr. Marcus is stranded with his hosts’ daughter at the stroke of midnight on New Year’s Eve. I’ll make the obvious pun at the end.
Scenes We'd Like To See (2) Part of the Sexual Politics universe
I've read many stories about men discovering their wives were less than faithful. After twenty years of marriage they find that wifey has the moral scruples of an alley cat. She invariably claims to love only him. She never deprived him of anything. It was only sex with the other men. I've often wondered: why didn't she tell him in advance? Why didn't he know in advance anyway that his future partner preferred her sex wholesale and he could only offer retail?
Will a husband be able to adequately explain what she's caught him doing with another woman? Will this be the first time in history that there is a plausible explanation?
Two young brides flee a polygamous cult when the patriarch can't father more children. They don't know what it is the old man can't do, so Frank shows them. Later he bluffs his way in to take the old man's place, and ultimately sets everyone free.
After the office Christmas party, career-girl Patience wakes alone in her flat, her bed soiled and defiled, her "Secret Santa" lover for the one night stand gone, leaving only regrets for her easy submission and embarrassment in anticipation of the gossip implications to come. She sits and writes out her New Years Resolutions before going into work to face the music.