The Rural Life

suemartin Part 1… It was a dream come true. I had finally convinced Barry, after 10 years of marriage, to sell up and buy a few acres. Some place where we could feel one with nature and have some animals around us. Not big ones like horses but goats and pigs and chickens. It would be a place to wake up mornings and here the calls of birds all around us. The land wasn’t that great it was mostly covered

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The Dingo Pack

kangaroo08 It wasn’t what I expected. When I married Steve. Living on an outback cattle station was lonely and frustrating. Steve was often absent for days or weeks at a time as he patrolled the fences making necessary repairs. The cattle also needed drenching, branding and general mustering and moving across vast tracks of land. It was not possible to bring the stock to one point so Steve and the men went to the stock and did the necessary work

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Storm Dogs

suemartin Part 1… Silvia sat in the bay window seat with her hands clasped tightly about her knees looking at the rain beating against the glass and running down the glass in sheets that overlapped each other in a vertical unrelenting river. It had rained hard for some time. Now as the darkness descended the girl wondered where her father and brother were. One thing was certain they would be making no attempt to drive back across sodden paddocks where

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Unexpected Dog Sitting

Dragontail “Beth??” my husband called from downstairs. He sounded stressed. Coming down the stairs there was my 12 year old son looking heart broken and my husband holding the phone to his chest. “It seems we have a problem,” he said. “Mike and his son cannot come fishing this weekend.” “Oh no,” I said, generally saddened by the news. “What happened?” “His wife is out of town as well, and their dog sitter cancelled at the last minute. They have

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There is nothing like a Dane!

By Anon With her back porch door opened, Laity sat down on her country sofa and laid a tall glass of ice tea onto the floor. Sunlight lazily streamed passed the door and a soft warm breeze enveloped her nude body. The sweet scent of garden flowers teased her nose and caused her to breath deeply and expel a large sigh of disgust. She was definitely frustrated. Here she was, a top junior executive employed by a Fortune 500 company,

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The Cheerleader

By Anon. It happened the first time when I was eighteen. I was on the cheer leading squad and thought I was pretty hot stuff. I worked hard to keep myself in shape and it really bugged me to see these other girls who were out of shape. I guess I was kind of mean to some of the other girls in college who didn’t have a body like mine. It was Saturday. We had just won the homecoming game

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