Note to reader: This story is fiction. Copyright (c) 2019. If you have never been, the afternoon commute in southern California is terrible. Unlike the cities of New York and Chicago, with their fantastic public transportation systems, southern Californians need personal vehicles. Millions of people commute to work from one city to another and do not use pu...
Bethany Winters was a changed woman. A short five months ago, she tipped the scales at two hundred and four pounds. Not a bad weight, if you stand six-feet-four-inches tall, but at five-foot-two, that's what they nicely call "A Big Girl." Back then, her appearance didn't bother her. She was a well-paid, seasoned, divorce attorney; a lifetime career woman....
Pesticide Turns Males Into Females BERKELEY: Atrazine, one of the world's most widely used pesticides, wreaks havoc with the sex lives of adult male frogs, emasculating three-quarters of them and turning one in 10 into females, according to a new study by University of California, Berkeley biologist Hung Lo. The 75 percent that are chemically castrated ar...
ME & DALE *** All characters portrayed in this story are 18 years old. This is a story of awakening, discovery and coming of age. While fiction, this story is based on true life experiences though names have been changed and some details altered. * I met Dale the summer before my junior year in high school. Well I didn't actually meet her then, I just s...
Olivia had always had everything she could ever want. She didn't grow up rich, but she had never known poverty or want. She was an intelligent child, excelling at her studies and quick to find solutions to abstract or mathematical problems. However, she had always been sheltered from anything that might have even the most remote possibility of causing her em...
The following morning, a taxi took them to a rental car service where Eric rented another pickup plus a flat-bed trailer to be returned in Oklahoma. There was already a flurry of activity when they arrived at the ranch at about 10:30. Dalton met them as they got out of the truck. "Good news, sir! We only lost six head to the storm. Seven horses and a dozen...
Torc and Natasha first met when they were eight years old. This was the first year of going to summer camp for both of them. Torc had been angling for his parents to let him go to "stay-away camp," as he called it, for the better part of a year. Natasha was going reluctantly; she didn't know what this was, or what to expect. By the end of the three weeks, sh...
---------------------- Author's Note: This story contains disturbing mental/physical themes that may cause discomfort. Readers be advised. This is Part 2 of 4. Previously the story title was incorrectly shown as "Woulds Pt.02", it should be "Wounds Pt.02" ---------------------- Wounds: A Seaside Story *********************** CHAPTER 2 *************...
BROKEN DAISIES This story takes place immediately following A Death in Montauk, but both stories are complete in and of themselves. In the previous story, Marisol, a non-blood relative of the Corrigans, is abducted from college and is abused. She commits suicide after being rescued. William Corrigan loved her with all the intensity an eleven-year-old boy ca...
I met Rags in elementary school. We were in the same class. Neither one of us was an outstanding student. If anything we were the social outcasts. While being a good athlete was highly prized by the boys in our class, I was not much of an athlete. When we chose up sides for a game at recess, I was usually one of the last ones picked - and for good reason....