Adultery Stories

Almost forty years have passed since that fateful dayWhen in a moment of anguish our affair died,Discovered in the tender bliss of recent sex,Nakedly entwined in each other’s loving arms.We had grown careless under the beguiling spell Of overwhelming desire, blinded by passion,And reaped the just harvest of our duplicity.For several weeks I thought my life was threatenedAnd I cannot imagine the daily horrorOf your domesti...

One day a married businessmanThought of everything he hadThere was only one thing missingand that was a lovely pet So he strolled down to the petshopWhere a parrot caught his eyeWithout legs it still sat firmlyAnd that made him wonder why When he asked the bird what held himWithout legs upon that stickThe smart parrot said: "My thingywraps around and that's the trick" "And I'm also quite a speakerBoth in English and in Du...

I never meant to kill him. There was one moment, just a single moment when I genuinely wanted him dead but that isn’t a crime is it? I mean on TV people get whacked over the head all the time. It never seems to do them much harm. They simply pass out for a bit and then they wake up and the show goes on as before. If I tell you what a bastard he was would that make it more understandable? It started with an argument as mos...

Walt was a handsome Norwegian cowboy. His wife, my Aunt Pat, was a squat Native American woman with hazel eyes.He'd cheated on her for years, and was standing before a judge asking for a divorce so he could be with Mary. When the legalities and accounts settled, the judge looked up from the papers and told Walt that without his wife he owned a horse, and nothing else. Pat had vanity plates made for her Cadillac that read...

Carine Blanchard sat quietly in the passenger seat of her new Cadillac. She hadn't said a word the entire ride home from the hospital where her husband, Michael, was staying. As a matter of fact she hadn't said anything since her visit with Michael's doctor about the diagnosis. Carine checked Michael into the hospital almost a week before for the third time in four months. Lately Michael seemed to be forgetful and would o...

Chapter 3: Autumn If mine heart have been deceived by a woman, or if I have laid wait at my neighbor's door; Then let my wife grind unto another, and let others bow down upon her. Job 32:9-10 Cleveland—January 1965 Hal held up two fingers; the bartender saw him. Hand signals were easier than yelling over the noise in the crowded bar. Outside, the snowstorm turned into a blizzard. No one would get in or out of town that ni...

“Have you told him yet?” Bailey asked her childhood friend Autumn. Autumn was just twenty-two years old and married just slightly over a year when she found out.Autumn reached in her purse and pulled out a scrunchie that she always carried with her. With both hands, she pulled her natural platinum blonde hair from off her back and shoulders and wrapped the scrunchie around it forming a ponytail that made her look sixteen...