Chapter 4 concluded with Will warning Derek not to lay a finger on Barb. ------------------------------- It was May already and Gwen and I had accomplished a few things and Gwen had accomplished some major ones including conducting a brilliant job interview and refurbishing our house. Her next tasks were to get her medical and dental records to where we w...
Hell, I was sweating. The steering wheel was almost unbearable to the touch; the cab of my truck was like an overheated sauna. Even though the single lane highway had a few gentle curves I was definitely feeling that mind numbing ache you get watching the grey tarmac edged with worn yellow line snaking past you. Scrub bordered the roadside, occasionally brok...
Josh Richards was ready to attend college at Texas A&M next fall. He lived in a small town in northern Alabama. He had his own business and his own money, which would pay for part of his tuition to college. He started a lawn care business when he was twelve. By the time he was eighteen, he had his own used pickup truck and a 14 ft. trailer for lawn mowers, t...
Gail shields her eyes from the hot Alabama summer sun, remaining calm but sometimes giving furtive glances over at her son and his friend moving all his worldly possessions in neat, cardboard boxes. They heft two over each shoulder, using the leverage from their legs to hoist the weight — both athletes and in the prime of their lives. Her son, Matthew, is em...
"Never on the bed you miserable, filth ridden whore. Never, never, never!" New Arrival The stagecoach rumbled to a shaky stop. The coachman set the brake and jumped off the seat. The powdered New Mexico puffed up like fine talc around his worn boots. The door flung open and Ruthie paused for a moment before gathering up her skirts and accepting the blister...
Queretaro, Mexico, 1990, 12, July Adriana stood before a mirror with her elderly grandmother. Today was the day she would marry her true love Javier. "Adriana you are so beautiful," her grandmother said with glistening eyes. "Thank you abuela, I just with mami and papi could be here." "They are here with you meja, they are watching you from heaven." Adr...
Franklin Dwyer looked at Jamal James Haywood, and smiled, for he couldn't believe what the six-foot-tall, handsome, athletic and well-dressed African-American businessman just said. The two men had known each other since their halcyon days at the University of Massachusetts in the City of Boston, and had been close friends for ages. In fact, unbeknownst to t...
Giving to the Community What It Needs An Adventure of Silky "Hey, Jess, listen to this!" Silky was nose deep in a biology textbook. "I am studying my own stuff you know," Jessica drawled from the novel she read. "Yeah, but you're like reading books a hundred years old. Who cares about a Black Tulip, or Dumas, pêre? This is like interesting!" Her eyes spa...
This starts it all. Our marriage and relationships for the past 38+ years. I sincerely hope you enjoy reading about them as much as we've enjoyed living them. This past summer we lost a dear friend of ours. If our life was a TV show, Millie would be credited as a frequent guest star. She was there at the beginning and although we all went our separate ways...
The chronological order of my stories is as follows: Todd & Melina series, Interludes 1-5, Sperm Wars series, Russian Roulette series, Case of the Murdered Lovers series, Case of the Murdered Chessplayer series, The Swap series, Interludes 6-10, The Murdered Football Player Series, Case of the Black Widow series, Teresa's Christmas Story, The Case of the Bl...