Each summer, while I was in college, I worked as a camp counselor at a sprawling 200 acre camp deep in the woods on a private lake. For ten weeks each year , the woods were full of inner city kids bussed in by well-meaning people who thought that it would make kids turn out better to spend time in the wild. From what I saw of the kids, most were already turn...
Pamela Howard was my best friend. She acquired that label the day she was assigned the locker next to mine on her first day on the job. We were lab bunnies. The name, "lab bunny," was attached to any female who worked in the lab at Zytech. It didn't matter that it was an antiquated idea; our lab was old school and scoffed at political correctness, when given...
The alarm clock sounded and Mitchell rolled his head to glare at it before slapping it off. As he got up, shrugged into his workout clothes, he realized Catrina never came to bed last night either. It had become a routine now; going to bed alone, waking alone. The resentment and bitterness slowly grew and overtook everything that they once shared together....
A tale about love, of personal relationships getting close and fading away, Of business challenges and successes And of four people deeply in love THE ENCOUNTER Chapter 1: A Felicitous Encounter "James, what are you still doing here? You have not forgotten that there is a party at my house in two hours?" I looked up from my computer screen where I...
Linda's mother had been spectacular, so much so that I practically forgot about Linda. We kept seeing each other, but when I was with her I found myself thinking about her Mom. After all, it was an competition of sorts. While the 18 year old Linda had the advantage of youth and was more classically attractive than her mother, Millie had experience and the f...
This is a re-posting of an original story from 2007 entitled Quartet - Ingrid. I have attempted to improve the grammar, punctuation and, I hope, the readability of the story. * He picked up the local phone book, flipped to the Yellow Pages and found what he was looking for. Punching in the numbers on the keypad, he listened as it rang. Just after the secon...
Alex let herself slowly wake, stretching her arms overhead and her back lifting from the mattress. She then curled herself into her smooth sheets under the warmth of the bedspread. Her dark hair trailed long and it tickled her back for a moment as she shifted. She let her mind wander to last night and her unknown companion. Remembering his eyes gazing into...
Britain was a dangerous land for man or beast. Wars ravaged the land, and tribes clashes. Torture, rape and cruel deaths were common. Now law was over the land. And now that Rome had left, Norse warriors invaded to find new lands to rule over. Northern England was a landing point for those men. Jorvik, or York, they called the village was their now won land...
Ed sat in his room. Eighteen and a big strapping lad. A decent bloke. Just not decent enough for a hot girlfriend. He didn't even want a tall, hot blonde - that wasn't his style. He was more about the bigger lady, someone with something to hold, a pretty face, red-haired, pale skin and freckles .... and a huge rack! After all he was 18. What made it worse w...
She is late, again. The untimeliness is mildly irritating but as nothing to his flash of annoyance as the door flies open to admit a bombshell of woman, shopping bags and chattering noise from which he discerns I'm sorry I'm sorry it's the trains again and we dithered over whether Pamela should get the red or the umber, a better colour for her skin she is so...