Erika's long black hair bounce lively on her shoulders as she negotiated the steps away from her favorite bar on the corner of Fifth and Monroe, quickly: she was always in a hurry. She walked at a very early age, she finished high school at 16, she finished Harvard Law at 23, and was the youngest District Attorney for Hoboken at the age of 26, with a very im...
The Road Trip, Part 1© By Owengreybeard The smell of gasoline vapor hit my nose with a pleasant tang as the liquid sloshed into the tank. The handle of the hose nozzle chilled quickly as the fuel was borne out of the ground and into my Electra Glide Classic. My friend Craig sat astride his aging Panhead on the other side of the pump, waiting his turn to fu...
Pete Hascomb sat in the waiting room of the Huntington memorial hospital in South Pasadena California. He looked down at his hands, tracing the soft contours of his thin fingers and small knuckles. Every day now, his muscles seemed to shrink. The toes of his left foot had slowly knotted into fragile pink nubs since he became bound to a wheelchair. His fat...
I looked for Terry out the small window of the huge C-141 Air Force aircraft as it taxied up to the crowd of people. I thought I saw her but I wasn't sure. After the plane stopped they wheeled those of us in wheelchairs down the rear ramp. There was a little welcoming ceremony for us. We were their men from Miami-Dade County coming home wounded from the Gul...
Jill sat forlornly outside the modest two story farmhouse. She watched as the snow fell more rapidly. Her clear blue eyes followed a single flake on its random journey towards the ground. She felt like that snow flake. Her whole life had been at the mercy of life's random winds. She knew that she was totally pathetic. It had been almost three years since he...
A/N - My dear readers! Thank you to everyone who has stuck by me and this story for so long. I sincerely apologise for the wait between this chapter and the previous one; I really have been writing whenever I am able. I doubt any single chapter would be worth a whole year of waiting, but as with everything I write I have poured my soul into Part 8 and I sinc...
Welcome back, In this chapter, we will fast forward a bit. Not very far, but enough to move the story along. I hope you stick with me and enjoy. Happy reading. IR2R ***** Chapter 4 Marisol served dinner and everyone noticed that she was smiling. BJ didn't like it. He remembered his sisters acting like this as well as a few of the girls he dated when he...
"The fact of the matter is that the world does not care about you or me, our hopes, our desires, or our dreams. And, the world of dreams, hopes, and desires that is constructed between our ears it is not necessarily a reflection of what is actually going on around us." ― Miyamoto Musashi Upon exiting the Holiday Inn, Dan's first sight was of his mother-in-...
The door to the American shuttle rattled open and Vidya stepped from it to the surface of an alien world. She stood for a moment, looking out at the seemingly endless beaches and green. The beaches spread outwards in both directions from the chosen landing spot – a patch of nearly level ground that was right near the Pacific ocean – and the jungle or marsh o...
If you haven't read Episodes 1 - 6, please do so. I welcome all comments, whether on here on via email. I might even email you back. ******************************** Jeff, my brother, was out of town for the week. My Dad and I had just made love. In case you're not familiar with my story, my mother had tragically died on my 18th birthday. There was a lot o...