There is no sex in this story. DO NOT PASS GO II: Bitter and Sweet "Keep interrupting me and I'm just going to hang up, Peter. This is just a courtesy call." One,two,three-four,five-six,seveneightnineten. There wasn't time for a full ten seconds. Avoiding the sigh was impossible and I knew my ex-wife, Jessica, was enjoying this. It drove me nuts. She l...
Chapter 1: The City of Angels In the City of Angels, there is no such thing as weather. It's always the same. Everyday. It was six in the evening and the sun melted on the horizon, reflecting off every surface and window in downtown Los Angeles. The 405 and 101 were packed bumper to bumper with vehicles inching closer and closer to their valley homes. It wa...
Several authors are coming out with stories based on the song, "This Bed Of Rose's." There are two main versions of this song, one by Tanya Tucker with the main character (other than Rose) being a young girl and a version by The Statler Brothers with the main character a young man. Having a choice of male or female for the main character offers many options...
REQUIEM FOR A VERGER Time rolls on, and things change dramatically at St. Dunstan's. There are times that veer wildly between the comic, erotic and tragic, and this story recounts one such time. Agnes Sterns sat in front of my desk, signing the contract before her. Her grandmother Mary then signed it as Chair of the Vestry, then I signed it. We continued...
The mailman approached the house and Jazz (Jasmine) opened the door hurriedly thinking this could be the day. The mailman smiled wearily and muttered, "Have a nice day." "You too," Jazz said when taking the mail, noting three bills on top of the heap. But beneath them was the long official envelop she was waiting for: notice of the dissolution of the marria...
Author's note: This series is my homage to the manga and anime series, "Baki the Grappler". Yes, I know there are about 3 different mangas and, I think, 2 different animes with different titles, but I'll just call the whole thing "Baki the Grappler". So, meet Bachiko. Any resemblance to the original work in terms of characters, plot and theme is entirely int...
[Although some readers have wanted that I write longer chapters without escaping or running away with shorter pieces as I did in my earlier two chapters, I found that it's more difficult than I thought. I did make an attempt though. This chapter is longer but I really don't know if it is long enough - or rather, good enough to be long. Ultimately, I have de...
So, there I was, at a party going stag, a Halloween bash, of all things! Now, bear in mind that Halloween itself is my birthday and it happened to fall on a Saturday that year. I had just broken up with Selina, my girlfriend of two months, over something that I thought was petty, but she deemed a catastrophe. She had seriously overreacted and committed the u...
"No," he shouted angrily into the mouthpiece, "you'll have it Friday when I'm done," and slammed the red phone back onto its plastic cradle. He snorted contemptuously, then raised his eyes towards the insistent rapping on his office door. "Yes," he shouted. The door was opened by a young man of medium build, well dressed and distinctly scrubbed. He was twe...
The older we get the more we think about the end of our life. I guess we should be glad we made it this far. Here I was contemplating my past and I was only fifty-three, thinking about by life now, all the rights and wrongs of my past and where do I go from here. My wife of thirty-three years passed on last month. I had always wanted to go first but God did...