This is a coming of age story involving a small town girl and the high school janitor. I would like to gratefully acknowledge volunteer editor Grania2 for many helpful suggestions during the process of bringing this story to life. This tale is the result of a get-away weekend with a close friend. After a little smoke, and a lot of alcohol, this story came...
My thanks to ErikThread and Derek for their editing skills and helpful suggestions, as well as the eagle eye of GordonJ who found my little oversights and let me know as he went along. Thank you all three. I hope you enjoy our mutual efforts. This story doesn't fit any neat category. It isn't really science fiction, more like a fantasy. I'll let you the rea...
For the perhaps as many as two of you paying attention, before this one I mention the District Attorney. The problem is Chicago doesn't have one, they have a county attorney. Cook County Attorney to be specific, which is a little surprising and then I never looked it up before. Did finally since I wanted to have an idea on what the offices look like. Which...
I did get some response to this. I'm glad so many liked it. I will continue as I do by assuming you read the first chapter. Keep in mind this is amateur work and there are bound to be some mistakes and regionalisms. I hope you can follow and enjoy the story. This one will go farther than the first part did. +++++ Several weeks into school now, my life had...
“Eight…. Nine…. Ten.” With a resounding THUD Scott let the bar fall back into place on the rack. He and his training partner Justin were doing arms this morning, which was usually a very enjoyable workout, but Scott’s head was not in it, and Justin could tell. “What the hell’s the matter with you today? It’s not like you to be distracted during a workout, b...
Chapter 16 - Security The Circle Security Committee sat around the board room table. The members included: Dale Harnett of Harnett Security, Dave Prentiss, Rose Prentiss, Lt. James Hotch of the Circle and Sarasota Sheriff's Department, Owen Bennett, and Julie Prentiss-Bennett. Dale had also invited Lucas Donovan -- the head of security for Worthington Indus...
Many thanks to SBrooks for his invaluable advice and editing. If there's anything that still doesn't work, it's probably something I chose not to follow his suggestion about. Rose Valley, Oregon, population 1134, is located about two hours southeast of Portland at the eastern edge of the Mount Hood National Forest. Rose Valley is home to the Maitland Mills,...
Author's Note: I've had the idea for this one for months before I started writing, and I originally envisioned something shorter. When I outlined it, I noticed that it would have to be a longer work to do it proper justice. This story comes in at just over 52K words with a lot of heat in the middle. I had originally thought to put it in the First Time catego...
This story is pure fiction. It never happened. Although I admit that my best friend has a wife who looks like this and it MIGHT happen if I get my hands on her! ************** I've known Mike and Dawn since junior High School. Mike is my best friend and Dawn is his wife and also one of my closest friends. They've been together since we were all juniors at...
Mary drifted her finger across the top of the wine glass as she sat at the bar. She had to admit she was pretty nervous that this would all work out they way she wanted to. She had been and town visiting family and had decided to give Dean a call and meet him for a drink, or at least that's what she told him. They both had been happily married for ten year...