Dick Curtis was handsome and good with his mouth in more ways than one. He could talk a game that no one could match. But he was embarrassed about his legs which were extremely bowed as a result of poor nutrition as a child. For this reason he was never seen in public in anything… Continue reading Key Party
Category: The Epochs
Assisted Care
Mother had been ill and was moving to an assisted care facility. Brother called her exasperated by the chore of cleaning out Mother’s house. It was quite a job after fifty years of accumulation. He threw out Dad’s old Playboy collection which was probably worth thousands. He tossed out all the boxes of music, librettos, and programs… Continue reading Assisted Care
Birth Control
She made the decision to have her tubes tied the minute she found out she was pregnant with her second child. She knew she wasn’t going to stop fucking, that’s for sure… and she didn’t much care for the other options for birth control. The Pill – lots of hormones, weight gain. OK for short… Continue reading Birth Control
The Zen of Laundry
I don’t know what it is, but I love doing laundry. I guess there’s something meditative in the way we learn to sort the clothes by color and texture, check the pockets, add the proper amount of detergent, set the temperature of the water, shake out the wrinkles and lint from the wet clothes, sort the… Continue reading The Zen of Laundry
An Outside Force
She loved him like a husband for fifteen years, but there was no sex involved. She was firmly married and although she would have the occasional sexual dream about him, all she longed for was to be comforted by him on the days when things got rough as they often do in middle school. He… Continue reading An Outside Force