I have been best friends with Calvin since we were children. We fit together like two puzzle pieces, him being more assertive and me needing someone to tell me what we were going to do that day. He sometimes picked on me, but I always let it slide because of how close we were. We did everything together. As time went on, Calvin developed a condition in mid...
Dillon turned and waved one last time before taking Brad’s hand and following him out to the car. The sound of music and laughter faded as Jeremy closed the front door behind them. Giving a jaw-popping yawn, Dillon smiled. "I am pooped, baby," he said to Brad. "It was a great party, but I’m just not as young as I used to be." Brad brought Dillon’s fingers...
Millstone - ONE - (Hanging the Chimney Hook) CHAPTER ONE I like to train and keep myself fit for my job, but for those past eight weeks, my only exercise had been kicking myself. There's not much else a man like me can do from a hospital bed with my noggin imitating a mummy and my keister in hot water with the Russian mob. I won't take a stroll in Central...
The Finn Master 6100 Royal, a 6.01 meter by 2.3 meter boat rocked gently on the water about three miles off the beach. It was ideal for fishing. Seated on the boat's port side bench, I held my fishing line straight down into the water. My friend sat on the starboard side. Between us there was a bucket of small bait fish. The bow faced toward the horizon. A...
Coming in Part 15 Clearing up the snow DJ and Jamie get a real surprise for Christmas Christmas Day, DJ plays with little kids (Jamie's cousins) Matt discovers his new voice Gloria gets her ring adjusted DJ gets a promotion Lots of emotions in this one folks. DJ Part 15 Merry Christmas Everybody! It's Christmas Day, at 6:00 AM and the alarm went off...
I am truly sorry to have left the story hanging. I will finish it. I hope those of you who've enjoyed the story so far haven't given up. Old friends re-unite. New friends are made, or at least met. There's some sex but not a lot. Thanks to LarryInSeattle once more for his help with the editing. Enjoy, comment (helpful comments appreciated the most, even i...
*I have had the wickedest case of writer's block. I don't need to tell you. I think you're all fairly familiar with my creative drought. I was actually nearly done with Onus 08 back in August, and my laptop was stolen on the third. It took me a long time to rewrite, seeing as I didn't get a personal computer until September 01. I have no excuses for the writ...
It was a pretty warm night in July of 2002. I had just gotten back from physical therapy to find the entire barracks empty. My unit had gone out to the field for a week and I had the place to myself for a few days. I was technically on leave because I had just had knee surgery a month ago, so I really didn't have to stick around, but a hotel out in town was...
"Hey, you, soldier. Come with me." "Mich . . . I mean me?" Johann answered. He'd learned to speak English fairly well in the more than a year that it took him to move from New York City, to Canada, and then back down here to Saratoga. But sometimes he didn't think and reverted to German. "Yes, you. You're being reassigned. By me. Get whatever gear you have...
The last time they were at a hospital together, Brandon used his sick sense of humor to help Nate hold it all together. Now he wished someone could do the same thing for him. But even as he wished it, he knew better. All the laughter in the world couldn’t erase the fear in his soul as he sat in the surgical waiting room of Chicago General, desperate for any...