Chapter 2 - Mr. Nice Guy I remember waking up under the stars in the cool ocean breeze. I had fallen asleep sitting up on the bench seat that lay across the back of the cabin well of my boat. Lying with her head on my lap, was the beautiful woman who had brought me so much joy that day. She laid there, on her back, holding my hand, with the moon and stars s...
"Let's go home, Sam." "We've only a few more days. We'll be home soon." "I mean now. Today." "I thought you liked this place. I thought you were enjoying it." "I do. I am." "Then what's the problem?" "I don't want to get to like it too much. I want to get out of here. You know me, Sam. Impulsive is my middle name." "OK. If you want to go home, we'll g...
"Womp!" was heard as the flying newspaper hit the aluminum screen door. I trudged along rolling the next newspaper and winged it at old Mr. Smith's porch. Here it is June. I just had my eighteenth birthday, graduated from high school and still delivered this damn newspaper route. I was accepted into college in the fall but I won't be able to pay for it wit...
It was a vacation that all three couples were looking forward to. Myself, Cindy and Richard had known each other since High School. We all three had received scholarships to the U of I. I in basketball, Richard in football and Cindy was a cheerleader. While in college we had met our respective spouses. Cindy married Carl who also played basketball, Richard m...
When I announced that was I was moving to Utah to pursue a research fellowship, people looked at me like I was crazy. I had just graduated from Howard University with a master's degree in microbiology and began desperately sending out job applications. One day I got an email from a Utah state university saying they had considered my application and wanted to...
Note: Hopefully you read the first part of this journey. Sue and I had been dating for a few months now and I was now far enough ahead money wise to look for a place of my own. My parents had been great about me staying in my old room but it was time to move on. My home town used to be a vacation town and one of the places that were built in the early 50'...
We have only been back a week from our family trip and here I am lonely already again. Bill is on another trip, or is he? Thoughts of Jim and his friends keep coming back to me. When Bill called last night he said he was retiring for the night. I waited for about an hour and called his room to tell him about a phone call I received for him and when he answ...
There are all kinds of people that come into my store, and luckily in this part of town I don't have to watch everyone too closely. I just have a small convenience store in a medium sized town in the middle of the 'burbs, just a few blocks from the freeway. I do all right for money, and as a single guy working long hours before going home to the apartment at...
In a way, this is like traveling back and forth in time. Though this is my life, and I thought I knew what was happening in it, it appears that much of what I thought I knew was wrong. So now I go back and forth in time, looking at how my life is now and how it actually came to be that way. That night at the Camel's Breath almost two years ago is when it a...
I told my next story the Tuesday before February School Vacation, Lexi and I leaving for Florida that Thursday. I actually told two stories that day, the first in her class before lunch and the second in Elle's class after lunch. Both were well received, the children now anticipating the interactions between Batman, Lexi, myself and the characters from the b...