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Mountain Biking
Chapter 1: Saturday Mountain Biking I was out mountain biking as I did most weekends. The friends I usually went with were out of town so I was just out on my own. I was descending a narrow single-track fast. I came around a blind corner. My hands were on my brakes the moment that…
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The Cruise
I used to think that cruises were only for old people. Then I discovered that when I was finishing up a project that a cruise was a great way to focus. Most days during the day people would go off on excursions leaving me to focus on work. Then in the evening there was food…
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Dogs Are Chick-Magnets
Most of my stories seem to have got pretty long of late, often multi-part. So here’s a short one, a nice lunch rather than the 10 course tasting menu. I don’t really like dogs. So of course I don’t have one of my own. But I never realized just how much of a chick-magnet a…
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Crash
Into the Wilderness The day my wife was killed was the worst of my life. One moment I was sitting in our living room having got home from work, an ice-cold beer in my hand. The doorbell rang. It was a police officer bringing me the news that my wife had been involved in a…
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Unzipped
There were just the two of them on the quad express ski-lift to the top of the mountain. “Hi,” Peter said. “You look like you are from San Francisco.” She laughed. “That’s not too hard to guess at Lake Tahoe.” “Well, most people are from the bay area but not necessarily San Francisco.” “So where…
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Seducing Laura
He lay in the dark. His alarm had just gone off but he had another ten minutes before he really needed to get up. He thought of Laura. She was a friend of a friend. He fancied her the first time they had met. She was attractive and had a great personality. She had short…
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Wine Tasting
Chapter 1: The Bet When I divorced I got a new job in Davis, California. I bought a small townhouse up there. The townhouse next door was rented by three students. It turned out they were all studying oenology at UC Davis, which is a fancy name for wine-making. And they were all very attractive,…
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Duct Tape and Pink Panties
I saw the car a couple of miles before I reached it since the roads in the desert are long and straight. It was at the side of the road with its hood up. I pulled in behind it to see if I could help. Out here in the country people need to look out…
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Asian Adventure, White Fling
Violet had been rushed off her feet during lunch in the café. Finally there were just a handful of people left. It was only then that she noticed that the blonde woman was reading the Rough Guide to Singapore. It was unusual to get a tourist in the café since it was far from the…
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Georgia’s Golden Gate
He was in the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art looking at one of the photographs. He was aware there was a woman beside him looking at the next photo. Suddenly she stepped in front of him to move to the next photo. His eyes met hers as he stepped back to give her room,…