I am a world class poker player with the winnings to back up my claim. When I have the dice in my hand, craps is not really a game of chance. I am an expert marksman with a pistol, even off a fast draw. I have a black belt in kung-fu. Why yes, I do happen to make my living as a gambler. How did you ever guess? Due to the nature of my business and the dark,...
Locksmith Ned Kelliher handed Gina the key and she asked would it work. He cackled and said technology was rather unremarkable in those days. "Of course it will work. I like you showing everything in that red dress. It's the one you had on in last night's film on TV, wasn't it?" "Yes Mr Kelliher. Be careful your eyes don't pop...you are staring." "Oh I'm s...
"Get out of my bar, you frigging Indian bitch, as I told you before, we're closed," said Bill Hughes, owner of Hughes Pub in the west end of Winnipeg, Manitoba. The towering, silver-haired and blue-eyed barkeep glared angrily at the short, round Aboriginal woman who stood defiantly before him, simply refusing to back down. She'd been coming around the bar fo...
Sheldon sat at the conference table in the high rise office in Mumbai sipping spiced chai tea. He was listening as a Nehru-jacketed functionary in the Indian computer firm assured him again and again of the precision and stability of their computer aided manufacturing software. He had heard it all before but let the man ramble on. When the speaker reached a...
Country Life. Hi there! First, an introduction. My name is Peter, Peter Banks, and I live with my family in a village in south Gloucestershire near Bristol in the west country of England. The rural life: in many ways idyllic. A real cross-section of village life with the vicar, the policeman, postman, a pub and all the local characters; and quite a few chi...
Earth day? Naked? Really? It is? He couldn't believe his luck. He couldn't believe his eyes. His girlfriend is a super freaky naked Native American Sioux Indian. He couldn't believe that he was finally going to have hot sex with his girlfriend. Life is good. He knew there was something that he loved about Earth Day. What a wonderful day? He wished every day...
We were in the kitchen. I was helping Mom with the breakfast things. The morning sun was slanting in through the half open window, making me squint at her. She had just announced something that had put a downer on my plans for the next couple of weeks. "Aw, Mom... You're not expecting me to spend my time amusing that dork, Arnie?" "He's your cousin, Ross....
Part 1 Most people know what an isolation tank is. The first, according to my reading, was built by the Samadhi Tank Company. These tanks are also known as flotation tanks. The subject floats because of magnesium salts placed in the water. In the beginning, a clinical physician name of Eddie Jessup(William Hurt) is in a tank that in the movie was a copper p...
Author's Note: This chapter contains descriptions of the plot, characters and scenes and a personal review of the 1956 John Wayne movie "The Searchers." If you have not seen this movie and do not want the story revealed to you, then don't read this chapter until after you've seen the movie...it's a great one! * Part 5—Their final good bye? ...almost 2 yea...
Once again I want to thank my editor "Wires" for his assistance with this story. His advice has improved this chapter drastically. I have made a few changes since his last review and want to emphasize any errors are definitely mine. Over the course of the next nine years Roger's country continued to grow. He stopped building new naval ships when he had s...