They got together a couple of more times before Frank took his prelims, having sex and prepping him for the exams. Several times she helped him "relax" after a day's exam. There was more badly needed relaxing while awaiting the results. Fortunately, he did pass and, a week later, the oral exam was completed and he was unofficially ABD - all but dissertation....
I had aspirations of being a big league baseball player like so many boys did as we were growing up. I was drafted in the 18th round right out of high school but gambled by entering college and hoped to improve my stock and get drafted in an earlier round after a year or two, which would have meant a larger signing bonus and not quite so many bus rides on di...
"And still life pushes on With or without you We've got to carry on Our will will guide us to A place where we belong Know there lies the truth I am the believer who gives purpose unto you" ― Dream Theater Conversation at the bar was strained. Darrell sported twin hearing aids, and Betty was less talkative than a Mafia informant given the ultimatum:...
It's in the blood, this passion that I have for baseball. It all started on an oppressively humid August day in central Alabama, when I was all of four years old. I was sitting on Aunt Roberta's porch, two houses down from my own, dressed in a gingham dress and enjoying a tea party with Lily, my favorite rag doll. Aunt Roberta had noticed a yellow-jacket ne...
I would like to thank my new friend, Louis, and many others for getting me to finish this story. Be sure and read parts 1 and 2. * * * * * Cindy and I stayed at my place the rest of the weekend. We held and hugged each other day and night. There was no way I was going to let her go, she felt so good in my arms. "I've never had anyone hold me with such war...
When we weren't in the swimming pool during the summer months, we were usually down at the community recreational center. It was pretty nice. Outside it had a lot of trees that we could loll under out of the heat and some assorted picnic tables. There were some swings, a sliding board, the obligatory basketball court, and, surprisingly, a well cared for base...
"Incoming!" "Carrie, I think you caused the robot to short circuit with that one. Look, she isn't moving!" "Yeah Tina, I gave robot Becky a syntax error!" It wasn't a syntax error, I just didn't care anymore. I held my head in my hands watching my coke can empty its contents onto my pizza slice because the in crowd chose to have their amusement at my expe...
Chapter 13 The Master -- Napoleon Lajoie I met Bill the following day at Morrison's Restaurant at exactly 6 pm. He had changed again. No longer a colored preacher, he was now a tall, gaudily dressed gentleman in a camel's haired jacket and dark brown slacks. He had a corn colored pompadour that most women would covet, and he was unabashedly good-looking....
Each of us can point to specific experiences in our lives that changed us forever. Some of our mistakes create uncorrectable problems that haunt us forever. But sometimes we do something 'wrong' that has profound effects on the best parts of our lives. This story is of the latter type. All I wanted to do was to get laid. I never expected to receive anything...
My mind was still spinning like a top with that evening's incredible events when my head hit the pillow, but I slept like the dead. I found Wilson in the kitchen in the morning. He shot me a hard look and said, "I hear you met up with Harriet last night?" I nodded my head, "You are right, she is amazing." "Any other comments...questions?" I got the feelin...