Stories by sharonsmif

OUR WATER FEATURE It was early in the Spring of last year when my wife, Cybil, and I were walking around the yard behind our house, idly talking about what our next project would be. We'd been slowly working to make our property more attractive ever since we bought the place about a year...

SOMETHING NEW TO TRY It was barely ten months ago when the lifestyle my wife, Karen, and I had been leading took a rapid turn in a new direction. As far as I'm concerned, and I think my wife would agree with me, the new vistas that opened to us have been so wonderful that I just wish we'd...

BEWARE ANNIVERSARY VACATIONS This whole thing started when my bride and I were spending our honeymoon at a resort in Alaska. That was when Jen suggested we should make it a tradition to take our yearly vacations as a way of celebrating our anniversaries. It sounded like a good idea to me...

VENUS AND TROY I'm kind of at loose ends today, so I've decided it's a good time for me to write about a very-important time in not only my life, but in the lives of everyone in our ******. When I'm finished, I'm going to put this file on the encrypted DVD that you know about, Danny. It...

PIMPING MY WIFE Author's Note: This story is based on an interview I conducted a few years ago with a married couple who had asked to join the local chapter of our religious group. I have been in charge of recruiting and admission for more than twelve years, and during that time I've heard...

THE T&F CLUB There is supposedly an ancient Chinese proverb that says, "The longest journey begins with a single step," and I have no doubt that applies in spades to what happened in my own life just a few months ago. In case you're curious about what that means, let me explain. In my own...

OUR HILLBILLY HONEYMOON Brad and I have been married for about a year and a half, and we still haven't got over what happened to us on our honeymoon. Actually, I doubt we ever will, and that's fine with me, and probably Brad, too, because it was just the most-exciting thing that has ever...

GRANDMA'S JOURNAL About five years ago I was down in our basement, going through an old steamer trunk that has been in the ****** for three generations, and maybe even longer than that. Most of what I found consisted of very-old photographs of the type known as "tintypes" and...

HOTTEST DREAM EVER I was awakened in the wee hours of the morning by my wife's moans, about a month ago. I had been deeply asleep, and if I was dreaming, I have no recollection. My first groggy thought was that Diane was ill, and that I needed to do something to help her, if not call for an...

GLORY BE TO GOD My wife and I were involved in our usual late-evening routine when one momentous evening became anything but routine. We had been married a couple months less than 20 years by then, and like most marriages, ours slipped into a routine about five years after we'd tied the knot...