Gone are the days when I could sit across from a guy on a subway train and not worry whether he was an undercover vice cop. My seating preference back then used to depend on whether there was an orange or mustard space directly ahead of an older gent -- one not elderly enough to bring out my Elektra complex, but not so young that he could be arrested for sip...
MAMOUTH MAMMARY GLANDS IN MISSOURI. Part #3 We'd already known Dave and Sandy had to return to their campground after our walk yesterday evening. They'd need to hook up the RV trailer and get ready to head home the next morning. We exchanged phone numbers, addresses, and promises we'd camp together soon. It was another beautiful sunny morning camped along...
I'm developing a hunting and fishing camp out by the lakes. I have the main house, which contains my quarters, office and a couple of single rooms that I can rent if required. I also have ten cabins. Most of the work on putting them up I did myself; I'm quite good with my hands. I'm still running on a shoestring budget, but I'm getting by and actually start...
#8: Mirjam It was a hot day in July when returning from another trip to France when I arrived for my connecting flight, like the other passengers I was ushered through to a small departure lounge where the other 50 or so passengers were waiting. The lounge was at ground level and made entirely of glass and inside it was as hot as hell. The were no seats ava...
I was in the right place at the right time. I had walked this route every morning for the last year. This morning was no different for me that every other morning, but a problem changed my life forever. The truck was careening down the hill quickly. The 8 year old was riding her bike in the street, unaware that there was a problem. But the mother saw it, bu...
"Tom, what do we have going on this weekend?" Maggie called out her husband who sitting in his recliner in the other room. "I'm playing golf with the guys Saturday morning, but other than that I don't think we have any plans. Why?" Tom replied. "Just a moment Dear," Maggie yelled. "I'm on the phone with Joyce." Maggie and Tom are a married couple in their...
The sun rose over the town of Bel-Air, located in the hills dominating the City of Cap-Haitien, northern Haiti. Lucien Henri lay buck-naked on the soft grass, and blinked against the light. Not again, the young man thought as he slowly got up. If someone told Lucien a year ago that his existence would become this strange, he would have laughed out loud. Luci...
At sixty-nine, I had reached the age where my health was inevitably going downhill. By most standards I was pretty healthy - I could still cycle fifty plus miles in a day without problems though running was a problem because of a knee injury eight years earlier. After Liz, my partner of over forty years and wife of over thirty died, I moved to somewhere I co...
The first time he saw her naked it was purely by accident. He was cleaning the windows of his new apartment and happened to catch a glance of her through the open window to her bedroom. She had apparently just stepped out of the shower and had begun to change clothes in her room. It was not a real long view but what he saw blazed into his mind an image of be...
FOREWORD This short story is an homage to one of the greatest wordsmiths who ever lived. Some of you will get it and others may not. Don't worry if you don't understand to which famous scribe I am referring. Just search for "famous Scottish Halloween poem" and hopefully you'll find what you're looking for. * As a regional sales rep, driving thousands of m...