Stories tagged “adultery”
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Another Man's Chin
Gunther awoke to find that his beard was missing. He checked his chin thoroughly but the beard was not there. He couldn’t think where else to look. Disconsolate, he wandered the house, weeping softly. As he entered the kitchen he thought he saw h...
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April
As I lay reading works of the late Anaïs Nin, I feel his warm breath against my bare white shoulder. His touch, electrifying, succumbs my knees to a melted state. My lover, his illuminating beauty in the dead of night, reduces my mind to mush. I forge...
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Cold Blood Moon
Half past one in the light of the moon The sheriff’s running ‘cause he ain’t immune To a bullet in his back beside the saloon And another one on its way Darrell Oakes never had no dossier Just a girl who’d stole his heart away A...
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Murderess
“Good evening, Alan,” I greeted my husband as I sauntered into our bedroom. I could already see beads of sweat forming at his brow. I tended to have that effect on him. “You would never believe who I ran into this morning,” I be...
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You're Not Sorry
While wandering around my apartment, clustered with useless junk, I remember our first fight, appropriately in first grade. “You stole my last strawberry!” I had accused you, along with your innocent blueberry eyes. “I… I didn&#...
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The Cuckoo's Nest
Please, just stop crying and listen to me. No, listen. Just listen. I’m sorry I made you feel unimportant. Yes, I was wrong. I was drunk, he was drunk, things just happen sometimes, you know? It was a one-time error in judgment. I’m never g...
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Illicit Affairs 1
Early morning light burns through my eyelids. Groggy, I flip over and away from the window, my arm instinctively searching for him. I already know he’s not there. I open my eyes to to see a note in the space where his body should be. With a sigh,...
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The Following Ficly Takes Place Between 6:00 AM and 7:00 AM
06:11:48 AM Judge Ashton Bruce paced his library. He wasn’t stupid. He had allowed his trophy wife some dalliances in the past. After all, he’d had some major ones himself. But she’d always arrived home in time for breakfast. Where th...
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Who Says It Has To Be Wrong?
I kissed a thirty year old man I met over the internet in the playground of my childhood. He took off his wedding band and buried it deep within his pocket, patting it before leaning in again. But it was I who initiated these meetings. But it was yo...
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Fishtank
The fish had an eyeball clouded over, its scales flaking off like dandruff. Its tail was like a tattered net, fluttering in an invisible underwater breeze. I scooped it gingerly out and stored it in my heart, where it turned slowly, like the earth...
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A Black Tie Affair
It wasn’t until early afternoon that the invitations could go out. That was just as well, reflected Mrs. Selwick. There remained a seemingly insurmountable amount of work to be done before the party had any hopes of being a success at all. In tru...
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Quickly, Before You Stop Yourself
It amused her how quickly he was stripping his clothes off and how ravenously he was kissing her… he wanted to hurry, and get to do it, before he lost his nerve (which could happen any minute). Once it was done, and he was sitting in bed beside h...