A taste chapter 9

At noon on the dot I opened mom’s bedroom door.  She was lying on her side facing away from me.  I called softly, “Mom, you wanted me to wake you.” She jerked suddenly to her[…]

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Home economics

Andrea Patterson checked her daily planner and pulled out Millie Evans file. She opened it up and scanned over it quickly, making a few notes on a yellow legal pad she had on her large[…]

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Silken manacles

Isn't it funny how the most incongruous of details seem to be the ones that linger in memory in times of extreme duress? This idea fluttered through Diane Greer's scattered thoughts as she watched two[…]

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Owning amber

I own a print shop in Miami and my life has most definitely changed. About a year ago, I hired a young girl named Amber. She had just turned twenty one. If a girl could[…]

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Caw 22 entry: dreadnought

I apologize to both Marie Stopes and Robert Falcon Scott if they'd consider this libelous. A lot of these words are Marie’s own, taken completely out of context, from her scandalous blockbuster pamphlet "Married Love"[…]

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Fantasy date

It was evening. The sun was just reaching the horizon. My day was just beginning. I had a date today with a really hot girl. She was in her late 30s but looked like in[…]

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Last in

Fbailey story number 463 Last In When my fifteen-year-old daughter read about a Brazilian woman whose short, pink dress caused a near riot at a private college and led to her expulsion and subsequent reinstatement,[…]

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