Blond and balding, divorced and ready to give up on women, Eddie Cox closed his toolbox and walked out of the computer room of the small branch of Albion United Bank, swallowing the last of a tomato sandwich. He stopped abruptly, a shotgun pointed at his belly. "Who are you?" asked the gunman, blue eyes looking coldly through eye slits in his hood. "The co...
I parked the car at the bridge lay-by having driven completely naked from my home 15 miles away, leaving my clothes at home as I had done in the past. I got out of the car, listened and looked to make sure I was alone, hid the keys and then quickly slipped over the stile into the field by the river. The path didn't follow the river bank but went straight thr...
Syn stood in the bank tellers line, waiting. Though the air was hot and dusty, two great metal fans were making an attempt to keep the dust at bay. One rotated slowly within a wall and the other in the low ceiling. The lighting was also dim, an attempt, perhaps, to hide just how filthy the floor was. Syn stood on he tippy toes, attempting to peer over the...
"Jeff's coming with me." "Are you sure that's a good idea? This is supposed to be between you and your mother. In addition to working out the wedding it's supposed to bring you closer to her." "Jeff's coming with me." My tone was different from the first time I said it. She understood. "Jeff has a plan?" she said. "Judo." Sunny hesitated briefly and the...
"Harry, you're the biggest loser I've ever met. Why did I ever leave Jim, for you? This is the last straw. I've definitely had enough of your bullshit. I refuse to lower my knickers for you anymore, ...I'm leaving you!" "Haven't you had fun, Mary?" "That's not fair and you know it, ...interesting is more like it, but all this bullshit is too much for me to...
If once in a time happy marriage turns to a problem marriage the events are usually going to happen after a standard pattern, wife is successful at her job, get bored of her husband and children, envoys her free (divorced) friends, an old boyfriend appears and start courting her, she want him, etc. etc. When shit hit the fan in my marriage, I got it all. Wh...
She was a bitch, everything about her said that she was a spoilt little princess, and the strange thing was that she got away with it. When she was with her friends, all sitting in the booth laughing at her, to me feeble, jokes she was the life of the party, a good friend to both male and female alike, but I knew different. They were college seniors and had...
A woman looking for fame and fortune, gets green acres and farm life instead. * Once her favorite holiday, Audrey now dreaded Valentine's Day. Normally an early shopper, with Valentine's Day looming closer, in the way of a painful toothache, she hadn't even yet bought her husband a Valentine's Day card. Every time she was in the mood to look at Valentine's...
Chapter 46 The Legacy of Archangel Michael Michael's bank flourished and he prospered personally and financially as well as emotionally, spiritually, and intellectually. When he prospered so did his community of South Boston because, unlike other patron saints of the people who helped their neighborhoods only because they grew up there and leaving when they...
Chapter 2 - A NEW JOB Tuesday was the big day. I was starting my new job. Not that it was a career or anything, but it was better than some of my previous jobs. I had worked at Carl's Jr. (Hardee's in the rest of the U.S.) when I was in high school and the previous summer I had worked in the customer service department at a department store. The only thing...