Barb told the team it would be her last year. They had been an inspiration, given their trust in themselves. Some of them would still play, expected, but what I really knew was that everyone would do positive things. Some could move and some would find new options to check it out. "Hello, girls. I went to …

Coming home, Carl was torn between shock and confusion. Kathy? I didn't mean Barb had inferred anything else. Barb would have kept the thoughts not quite nailed. I wouldn't have blown up teenage fantasies. I would have talked to Andrea and Kathy wouldn't lie to her best friend. Barb had spoken to the knowledge that …

As Barb's job was, the girls called her "Coach." Carl was his assistant and the girls called him Carl. Barb knew football, knew how to get the kids to work their butts and they love it. Barb knew how to drop a corner kick five feet from the net. Carl wasn't especially athletic, but he was happy to trot, the …

Jimmy was still not sure why he did what he did. He and Karen had been dating for a dinner and a little dance when their younger brother came to visit. Jimmy hadn't seen him for three years. Ken had been married for a short time but hadn't worked and separated. That after a year. That was two years earlier. Jimmy knew …

I'm a 42-year-old married woman. I've been married for 17 years, with two wonderful children. I've never been unfaithful to my husband until now. I work for a public relations firm, which is next to a large shopping center. Two days ago, the unthinkable happened to me. I was walking down the mall after work, looking …