Author: Lorna Tedder

  • The WHOA Moment

    Copyrighted by Lorna Tedder. Originally published in Third Degree Curves. He really is very cute, this young blond man. He re- minds me of a couple of captains and lieutenants from my early career days. Piercing blue eyes and a lethal smile. He wants to meet me for a drink sometime soon. He suggests a…

  • Time Travel, Unexpectedly

    Copyrighted by Lorna Tedder. Originally published in Third Degree Curves. Time travel  hurts,  okay?  Not  always,  but tonight it did. If for no other reason, because it was just so unexpected and so raw. And I was so powerless. Earlier, while Aislinn slept off a virus, Shannon and I watched The Gift, one of my…

  • Dangerous Behaviors and Kid Fears

    Copyrighted by Lorna Tedder. Originally published in Third Degree Curves. “It’s crazy,” Shannon tells me. “All you parents are so scared to  death  that us teenagers  are going to go meet some pervert we meet online, and yet all these moms of teenagers  are  out  there   meeting   with—and   sleeping with—men they’ve met…

  • Memories of the Future

    Copyrighted by Lorna Tedder. Originally published in Third Degree Curves. Positive thinkers are huge believers in magick, even if they don’t know what it’s called and can’t explain it. My mentor isn’t pagan and doesn’t particularly understand  quantum  physics,  or magick, or why affirmations work, which is why I was smiling all throughout  her explanation.…

  • Meditative Work – the Long Hall (Haul)

    Copyrighted by Lorna Tedder. Originally published in Third Degree Curves. I am in a dark hall, wandering. The ceiling is low and the walls are made of stones, grayish and larger than my hands, with grout that’s  blackened. This is an old place. The floor is either dirt or stone that’s as smooth as concrete.…