Welcome! Many thanks for reading my short story, The 1st Interview! I'm going to let you decide the outcome of this and the 2nd Interview, so please email me and let me know who you would like to work at L/J's! The winner will be revealed in "L/J's", a short story to be released later this year. If you have any other ideas you'd like me to explore, feel...
The building of their extension had been moving along nicely. There had been delays, a week when the old sewage pipe in the ground collapsed and needed replacing. Then the site foreman passed away and it was a further two weeks before the small work force returned with a new foreman. John and Paula Brown had moved into the property twelve years earlier with...
Author's Note: This is a special chapter because it includes a cross-over with characters from JayCuck's great story, "The One Less Traveled." In Chapter 7 of that story, Collin takes Nicole to an upscale club in San Antonio. Collin is Nicole's black boyfriend. Nick (Nicole's husband) watches the couple from the bar. Nicole doesn't know Nick is there. In my...
Prologue As I prepare to publish my story, I am about to leave for DFW airport in anxious anticipation of picking up a good friend. I really can't wait. I delayed writing this for four months because there were some people involved here that I did not want to dishonor. It took time to capture the events and its effect on me when this all happened. Also, the...
Author's Note: This story is completely fictional and did not happen. All characters and names are fictional and were made up. ****************** Los Angeles, California A new day dawned with the morning breeze. Monday came as it always did, with a feeling of the blues and emotional disdain to a new work week. Most who worked through week days, didn't fee...
I'd now been in town for three weeks and my hair was starting to get shaggy. One day after work I headed over to Top Hair and Nails to get a haircut. It was half an hour before they closed, and the three women inside were cleaning up. One was Darlene Fitch, the other two were older women. One with a nametag that said 'Mary Anne' looked up and spoke. "Hello,...
Chapter 35 After an hour, Lukas indeed returned, and he brought George along with him. George looked very intently at Paul and kneeled beside the bed, I could see he was incredibly relieved to see him awake and alert, but dared not hug him for fear of hurting his dear friend. Paul stiffly held out his hands and excused himself: 'I cannot do better than th...
I looked around the restaurant nervously. I used to be really good at the dating thing, but years of not using my dating and flirting muscles had led to their atrophy. Blind dates like this one were especially trying because let's face it; a blind date is like sticking your arm in a geyser. Most of the time nothing happens, but if your timing isn't right you...
Chapter 24: Martina I got to Tina's apartment that Sunday long before the time we had agreed to meet. We had met the previous night at my ex's little orgy and I had asked Tina for a fuck date. She was about five-five, maybe one hundred ten pounds, apparently a Hispanic woman with long black hair and pale skin. She was maybe in her late thirties and gorgeou...
Jelly bean and her bail bondsman Chapter 2 By Beagle9690 November 2011 I thought my heart was going to break when Danny opened up to me like that, and especially when he had me get his wallet. Danny removed an old, faded photograph of him when he was a little boy of eight. Danny looked so sweet and innocent, and he looked so happy, hugging his dog, his bord...