Slow Stories

She needed him for his steadiness, but he was just too boring.

She needed a job and he needed an assistant and boy did she ever assist!

It's Rebecca's first day in the eighth grade and the fourteen year old girl is excited. Her whole life she has been dreaming of this moment, the day when she will finally be queen of the school. For the eighth grade is the highest grade at Robert E. Lee Middle School. She had heard the big brouhaha about the changing of the school district, the redrawing of its boundaries and the busing in of kids from some of the housing projects in West End but she hadn't paid it any mind.

He wanted to see himself making love to his wife.

She had the sexiest looking toes.

He thought he recognized her from the Internet and it turned out that he did.

All he wanted to do was make it good for his wife.

He imagined her with other men and he finally told her.

She had no idea of the value of money so he told her to get a job and make her own.