I pretended not to notice her as she walked down the dock. Who could miss her in her cute little white shorts and bright yellow bikini top? She stopped at the next boat and watched the mate clean fish. She looked at me as I threw a large grouper on the cleaning table. She wandered over and watched me skin and filet the fish. I opened the cooler and put the f...
It was obvious to me Karen had a lot to think about. I understood what I left her with was going to take a while to process. Over the next week I tried to give her some space. We hardly spoke. I got the feeling she was at least to some extent avoiding me. She was well capable of doing her own home work on me. And I hoped in doing so it would help to verify w...
“Where’d the time go?”, he wondered walking in his backyard drinking his morning coffee. “How many days and weeks amounting to months did I wish winter away? Now it’s gone, the daffodils are in bloom and I’m still right here, where it all began and I haven’t even ordered the new rods yet. Am I wasting my life away? I wish she were still here. Things be diffe...
One of the most beautiful women in the world and she wanted to go out with me! She didn't know me from Adams house cat, but I certainly knew her. So did the rest of America. She was one of the highest of the high fashion models; her picture had graced almost every major publication in the free world. Her call came in just when I thought the summer doldrums...
It was an early morning on the Irrawaddy, and the sun had not yet crossed the eastern horizon. U Tha slowly paddled his old aluminum canoe down the river. It was difficult work to make a living as a fishermen on the Irrawaddy these days, or anywhere else in Burma for that matter, but somehow U Tha managed, just as his father before him had. The trick, he al...
Chapter 1 - Fish For Dinner? With a sigh Philip tossed the cigarette butt over the safety rail, sending it crashing into the waves below. It had been about two and a half years since his last vacation, and now here he was, beachside, without the foggiest of ideas about what he should do for fun. Were he younger it would've been a simple. The clubs would'...
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I had looked forward to my fourteenth birthday the entire year because it fell on the first day of trout fishing season. Marc, my best friend, and I had made big plans; I was all set to spend the night at his house, which was closer to the creek, so we could wake up before dawn and go to out to our favorite place. "The rock" was a huge rock that jutted out i...
Sometime later the mound of goblin bodies had been stripped and laid out in two long rows. Twenty two bodies in total, including the three goblins who had attacked him first. He had made Opal climb down and drag them up into the camp one by one. At the end was the crown of the spread, the large muscled goblin which Rain had found away from the rest where it...
The FISHING and CAMPING TRIP With STEPHANIE Andrew was financially secure -- having sold his successful home repair business and obtaining a divorce. Now he could spend more time with his hobbies: golf, fishing, and vacations. But he also spent several days a week doing home repair work for those in his retirement community. In time, several women customer...