I frequently refer to the boys in this story, the boys I refer to are DJ, Jamie, or Matt, they are all age 19 or more. At my age (76) anyone under 25 is a boy! DJ Part IX Sunday morning it was raining when I woke up about 8:30, not at all surprised that the boys were still sleeping. I made coffee, and was on my second cup when my phone rang, it was Jamie's...
I was finishing up the dishes when I looked through the window over the sink and saw Joe in the backyard. He was tugging on the new tire swing I'd attached to the old maple tree in the back yard as a surprise. He looked concerned, as he tentatively leaned his weight against it, and I chuckled to myself at his unease. I ducked my head and watched as he steppe...
Comments, critiques and tips are welcome. Chris Donovan vs. Shane Lewis Dedicated to Ama Potello. Love you to bits Sis. Bonded for life! *** "You mean you told someone else that you wanted to break up with me?" Shane whispered emotionally, feeling not only anger, but shock and humiliation as well. Shane had never felt that stupid in his life. Now he...
Dear Figaro, This week has just been so fucking crazy, I will do my best to fit everything in. I just do not know what is happening with my life right now. I seem to have such high points and then really low points, I just want it to even out but I don't think that will happen any time soon. So I finally met Theo's pen pal Brad. After I found the strange...
The story so far... Ben, when desperate for a little extra cash, discovered that there was good money to be made running in races as a 'ponyboy'. Despite being assured that the worst he would be subjected to would be a 'certain amount of groping' he has found that this led, inexorably, to a life as a prostitute. Moreover, Andy Mason, his pimp, along with Ar...
As soon as I had taken my seat I saw that Colin had aken Danny and Gary over to the other side of the room where it was obvious they were having a heated argument. "It's not their fault!" I said to Darren who was sitting next to me and I decided to go over and try to explain things. "Stay where you are! He's just jealous, that's all!" He and another guy ca...
It all started a few weeks ago while I sat in a bar after a long day of searching through the want ads. "How's it going?" said the clean headed muscle man who sat down next to me. "Not the best," I said, looking up from the paper. "I've been slogging around town all morning, looking for a job." "No luck?" he asked, looking me over with ice-blue eyes. "No...
Ebenezer somehow found himself back near the rectory house on a fog bound night that one would expect to be bone-chilling clammy and cold, but he was still enveloped in comfortable warmth. Just a few feet away he caught site of an unfamiliar specter, very dark but with a sheen of foggy light, just enough to distinguish it in the moonless dark of night. It wa...
[This is a complete four-chapter novelette that will complete posting by mid-January, 2020.] "Tank, Yo, Tank. What am I going to do with you?" "Hey, look, Craig. I got to the third level. And I zapped the Black Orc." "Focus, Tank. I asked what am I'm going to do with you?" "Uh, is this a trick question, Craig? You said you'd come home and give me a massa...
It's monday morning. Overcast , but warm. The first day this year that I've managed to bike to work. I pull round to the side of the building, beep my door card and awkwardly waddle my bike through the too small side door. The little basement of my office building is part car park, part bike racks and part storage., Weird stacks of things loom in the corner...