Smokey Saga #18: "Happy Endings II—Won't You Smile Awhile For Me" ***** Here is the newly edited sequel to my January 2014 story "For Happy Endings It Takes Two." Enjoy. ***** Saturday, December 14th, 2013, 4:22 p.m. She had just brought the plate of appetizers into the living room. She set it down and trotted to the window to look outside. Her date ha...
Welcome to Smokey Saga #90! This is a sequel. Fifty Sagas ago in Dec. '14, I put out #40, "Don't Call ME..." 'Tis now time for its follow-up, "...I'll Call YOU." In '15, one of the protagonists, Patty Esther Dimberg, was referenced in "The Voxe" and later appeared in "Seize The Moments Of Your Life." This story takes place between the time frames of those ot...
Settle in, my sweet lebbis and gents, for we are charting some new territory. This is a heart-wrencher, and a period piece. New story, new characters, old era. I'm taking you way back to my early, early years for this one. Not that I'm ancient, mind you whippersnappers. If you were around to enjoy the mid-1980s, welcome back. If not, take my word for it: the...
Skin Shallow Friday, July 21st, 2017, 12:42 p.m. Jamie Himmelfarb was not a truly happy person. Here she sat at an outdoor table belonging to Perx, Juniper's premier coffee shop, like so many other workday lunch breaks. She liked to rotate her orders, mixing and matching blends with pastries, such as a roll, fritter or bear claw. The Wi-Fi was top-notch,...