WEDDING BELLS [This is a work of fiction. With the exception of the city of Chicago, all places, events, and characters are fictitious and any resemblance to real persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental. Also, please note that in chapter one, the date of Amy receiving the government death notice telegram should have been 1945, not 1944 as my typo e...
When Albert Hiribango was told that there was an American tourist in his town who was looking for a lift to the capital, he initially had mixed feelings. On the one hand, he felt it was his Christian duty to give a helping hand to anyone in need, and he knew there were many out there who would be less ethical than him in extending this hand. On the other han...
As the airplane landed in Lod, I vowed to myself that I would never patronize a Gentile travel agent, if I ever got the opportunity to travel to Israel again. I thought that landing in Israel on Friday would give me a wild weekend in Tel Aviv before my expense account kicked in. I had a series of tours set up by my magazine for the article I was supposed to...
Chapter 30 - Americans in Danube City The three Americans completed the final leg of their journey about 10 hours after beginning it in Chicago. Only a short time after rising to cruising altitude the plane began its descent into Danubian airspace. Jason and Cecilia looked out of their window at a range of heavily forested mountains that gave way to open fa...
This story is part of a continuation of my Road Trip series (see the end of 'Road Trip -- California' for a list of the chapters of that series, in the order to be read). You need not read that series to enjoy this series. Although real places and celebrity names are used for realism, this story is fiction. Please 'read, enjoy, vote, and comment.' Synopsis...
I said all I needed to last time. Let's just get on with it. ................................................... Damn, damn, damn. What the hell is so wrong with me that I can't keep a woman? I think I'm a good person. I'm not cruel to people or animals. I pay my bills, donate time and money to charities, help my friends when they need it. When I decide...
Chapter 3 The Reluctant Singer Fran spent a good part of Saturday afternoon and most of Sunday trying to teach me how to sing. It was far more difficult than I thought. We used a digital recorder and she and I sang into it and then played it back to listen. At first, I didn't recognize my own voice. That's not how I sounded, I thought. But after a while, I...
Hi, everybody I'm back after a very long absence, thanks again for your patience! *** My friendship with John McDonald went back quite a way. We'd met long ago when I was just a partner in a photo business with my childhood friend Chris Foster. McDonald was regarded something of an Orson Welles-type, an auteur of cinema to some, but to others he was all ta...
Wine Country – Part 1 – Traveling to We are traveling to the wine country of California taking a flight to SFO. We head to the airport with our luggage including our special suitcase, you know the one. We get our tickets and check our baggage. We pass through security and are walking through the terminal. People just seem to be looking as you walk, with you...
It was several years ago in 1986 that Josh Mills decided to take the summer off and return to East Texas the land of his childhood. He had just completed his graduate work in Philosophy and wanted a rest from the academic world. When Josh was younger he played guitar in various country bands throughout East Texas and Louisiana and decided he wanted to spend...