This is a coming of age story, I have asked that it be put in the science fiction and fantasy category because it starts out with a bit of time travel, and it really doesn't fit anywhere else. If you're looking for spaceships or dragons, though, you may want to click the back button. Because after the time travel, it's simply a story about growth and love an...
Note: This is the fourth installment of a continuing series. Chapter 4 Exchanging goodbyes, with knowing smiles, and a warm, G-rated hug, Jack reluctantly said goodnight to Bethany. As he prepared for bed that night, Jack relived every moment of his evening with Bethany. In just 24 hours, his whole world was tipped upside down, in a good way, a really, re...
I've spent a lot of time with this new lover of mine. We've talked, a lot, about our lives, our selves, what we wish for. We've gone out to eat a couple of times, and we've had epic amounts of sex. When we have talked about my marriage, I've not put any qualifiers on it. Juan knows I'm unhappy, but that I love my spouse. Juan understands that my sex life wi...
A week after Gary, the hugely hung and lovely Cambridge professor, and his beautiful wife Carmen had returned to London, Brad picked me outside work on the Friday afternoon as usual, the Ford GT-40 sounding throaty and impatient to be on the freeway and up to what I now termed his "floggery". Leaning over to give me a chaste kiss on the cheek, the 40-year-o...
"Mr. Beckett? Do you have a minute, sir?" The minor league manager had been staring out the window for a good ten minutes, and his players had all noticed. So had the two assistant coaches. One of them mentioned it to the other and suggested they go see what was wrong. "Nope. Not goin' in there," his fellow assistant said. "He'll work it out." "I hope so....
The local minor league baseball team was playing their Fourth of July Game with fireworks afterward. A group of her colleagues were going to the game. They planned to sit in the same section of bleacher seats and make a party of it. She knew who would drink too much beer to drive home. She knew who would leave with whom as though the evening had already like...
When Erica heard David had been diagnosed with terminal brain cancer, she broke down. David wasn't related to her by either blood or marriage, but he was family as far as she was concerned. Her father, Tom, had died of a heart attack when she was 11. It happened during a meeting of his Masonic lodge. One minute he was fine; the next, he was clutching his le...
Chapter 31 Shots Fired This Location"She said stay here," Shane said. "No. She said stay in the car." Carmen climbed over to the driver's side, and started the Sorrento. "I'm staying in the car." Carmen started creeping down the road, lights out, as Shane climbed into the front. "If we're gonna go, might as well go," Shane said when she got seated. "Good...
A work of fiction. All characters are over 18. I wrote and edited this in one afternoon; a flash story, if you will. It's short. Not a stroker. ***** I was eating lunch at the same table, like I always do, when two characters walked in. I knew them both: The Mole and a new kid I called Rooster. His nickname hadn't caught on yet with the others, but I kne...
David and Michael clanked their beer bottles together celebrating the complete and refurbished upstairs bath. The new black and white ceramic tile on the floor and up the walls gleamed. The redone plumbing and electrical worked perfectly. Michael stretched out the kinks in his back the new toilet put there and drank down his beer in large gulps. They were si...