Chapter 21E PROLOGUE: Dear friends and readers of my past works. I wish I had better news for you, however She, apparently, has other ideas about where my life will go from here. Since I last wrote doctors have removed a part of the right side of my brain, because of an abnormal venal malformation which was going to kill me one way or another when it bur...
I'm sure you have noticed if you've been following this story from previous chapters, that the plot structure isn't typical. There's a Latin term for this that comes close, "In Medias Res". Which means in the middle of things. While it's not completely accurate, it's the closest I could come to explaining that the story which begins during their last officia...
"Fuck off!" "Now don't be like that you miserable old bastard." "Don't try to sweet talk me you interfering biddy, can't you see that I want to sleep?" "Sleep? That's all you ever do. If you moved your miserable arse out of that bed and walked to the bathroom I won't have to drag you there. Or would you prefer me to give you a sponge bath?" I grumbled ou...
This one is a little personal; my father in law was a Japanese-American GI in WW2 and there are a lot of echoes of my family in Doc M's family. The Battle of the Lost Brigade happened in October 1944. Like the Light Brigade at Balaclava, the 442d was ordered by incompetent generals to do a militarily impossible task and did it on sheer courage, at great los...
All characters are adults. Reminder: Noire isn't uplift that improves your mind and makes you a better person. Noire is life without its lipstick and perfume. So if you're a delicate snowflake you may want to brew some tea and go read some poems. ***** The bad, the worse, and the ugly Sitting on a sofa across the room from me I saw a good looking older...
[This is a story, "based on actual events.' I put it in Romance because that's where I want the story to be. There were times, years, when it was not a romance. The wedding didn't happen where the story says it happened. Names have been changed to protect both the innocent and the guilty.] * We got married. I had been stationed overseas and had written Mar...
To her surprise, it was Zach who apologized to her the next morning. "Guess I'd forgotten that you grew up too kid." He handed her a steaming mug of coffee, picked up his own and leaned back against the counter. "You know, Annie ain't so bad, not at all what I remembered. She sure has grown up." Was Dani imagining things or had her big brother not stopped sm...
The Sophomore class of Ancient Cultures at the University of Göttingen has just about 54 students. As a small class, they all know each other and have good interpersonal relationships. It was the day of the first assessment test in the summer semester, and Dr Patrick was standing tall at the front of the class. "You have just 40 minutes for this test. An...
The Summer semester had come to an end and was being wrapped up with the exams. This was the second exam the sophomore class of Ancient Cultures was writing in the week exams began. Across all departments and levels, students of the University of Göttingen were either in the exam hall or in the library studying for their next papers. Dr Patrick was seated i...
Lap Dancer The thrill of love... The agony of loss... The joy of arousal? An escort driver rescues a young woman getting away from a bad situation LEGALESE: Don't read this if you are underage, if it is illegal in your area, if it is offensive to you, or if you cannot distinguish fiction from reality. This is a work of fiction. All sexually active charac...