You think through the important decisions in life. What you DON'T think through are the thousands of day-to-day choices that can just as easily shunt you down 50 miles of bad road. This is about one of those. I awoke in the middle of the night to discover that my wife had rolled over on my hand. I sleep with my arms extended. I don't know why? Ask my moth...
Gabriela Casimiro was not pleased. Women like her didn't wander through suburban malls on a chilly Christmas Eve. They didn't wait in ridiculously long lines. And they certainly didn't get shoved forward, backward and sideways by the overweight and overloaded shoppers surrounding her. Fucking Christmas, she thought with a discernible sneer. It was bad enoug...
BRAZIL - HERE I COME! Donald stepped into the Boeing 787 Dreamliner. The welcome space was lavishly spacious and unusually tall for an airplane. Getting squeezed out of the compressed terminal walkway was freeing. The feeling of starting out on a great summer vacation to Brazil really sunk into his mind. The stewardess in the blue suit and the pearl earring...
'Because you have been so amazingly helpful'...the note began, on the richest and creamiest of stationaries, in a flawless hand.... 'In fact, your advising on this project has been—and I say this sincerely—'incalculable'— almost 'invaluable'—I want to give you a token of my most grateful appreciation.... If you will forgive me, I have taken a certain liberty...
Chapter 16: Concerns of the Progenitor The Year Five Andrew’s Story Our little head-to-head confrontation with the government, fleeting and ethereal as it was, has finally opened my eyes. Emmy almost brought down the entire US government and she didn’t even try hard. I asked her to zap the A.G. and zap him she did. In the meantime she was still trying t...
When I published 'The Artist and the Acrobat', people asked for more about the characters. That episode and this are part of the back-story, told in flashbacks, that I've been building for a novel I've been writing for the last 2 years, tentatively entitled 'Sun, sea, sand and...'. It's about a woman called Laura, with Gabriella (from 'The Artist and the Acr...
The characters in this story are all over eighteen and the age of consent, sex if it happens is consensual. UK English is the rule: if the spellings Mum, arse or colour annoy you, don't go any further, for the rest of you enjoy. ***** "I swear I didn't let it happen, why can't you believe me?" My sister looked at me with genuine tears in her eyes, I backe...
CHAPTER 1 The bull had been with the heifer for almost eight hours and while Irene Cave hadn't kept her eye on him every minute she'd only seen him sniff the heifer's rear twice and then he failed to perform his duty. This was the fourth time with two other heifers and a cow mating had failed. The jerk. She decided he was gay or had broken his thingy when...
Thursday Twenty-nine years ago, I was lucky enough to get admitted to a prestigious university in the eastern US. You'd know the name if I told you. The school's colors and mascot and marching band are pretty distinctive, too. Twenty-five years ago I graduated and left that world behind. But every few years I go back. My university is famous for its reunio...
Liam's POV Jenkins' Safe House, Province of Quebec He felt a bit better when he woke up this time. He didn't know what day it was, or where he was, but he could breathe easier. He moved, attempting to sit up using his one unbandaged hand ... there was pain but it was bearable. Let me help you Liam, don't pull everything apart again please! He saw Beth...