1964 was a far different world than the one we all live in today. Ronnie couldn't know that of course, he was fresh out of high school and like most young men at the time, there was not a single clue in his mind of what he would do with his life. His world had been school, and work, it was the only world he knew. As far as anything like a social life, there...
{Just in case a certain detective is still alive, and still interested, this is a complete work of FICTION! Yet this story is completely true, even the fantasy part. Does that make any sense at all? Some of you will get it, some of you will not. Unconditional love, it's wonderful thing. It can also be a terrible thing when it is just one way.} +++ I didn...
(For those of you who like happy endings, this ain't it. For those of you who want to read about sex, there is some, but it's not erotic, at least not to me.) +++ I knew Billy Martin about all of my life, we went to first grade together and graduated from high school together. I can't even say we were friends, in fact I never even noticed him, not really...
Patrick got to the dance fashionably late. It was one of the rare times that he didn't have a date, the object of his most recent attentions had smiled and told him that she already had a date. Jennifer was the most popular girl in their freshman class at State. Patrick had dated her in high school, just a few times. Like always, she was either with one jo...
{No happy ending here, life sometimes gets in the way of that. Or does it? Sometimes it is we that can get in the way of what could be. This has a tiny bit of truth in it, almost everything I write does. Probably that is true of everyone who writes, even if the truth is only fantasy. I do know there was a friend once, and Sonny is (was) his name. Long tim...
Getting into the house without being heard was easy, all Jerry had to do was go around back and open the basement door. He couldn't go in the front, the alarm system he had installed at his wife Shelly's insisting would go off. She had been a complete nut about that for some reason, bugging Jerry until he finally installed the system. Opening the garage...
I walked – strutted, actually – into the plush lobby of the downtown Hilton, headed for the bar. As I walked into the bar, I felt the eyes of every man on me, as well as some of the women. They saw a tall, slender redhead with long legs wearing a thin beige short-sleeved blouse, a tight khaki mini-skirt that stopped right about halfway down her legs, tan-co...
Heart attacks are a pain in the ass. Well, not exactly, but still, they get in the way of things and I really didn't have time for one. No matter, a person doesn't get to choose, so I got a short stay in the hospital. They told me it wasn't really a heart attack though, "just" a blocked main artery. After installing a couple of those culverts they call ste...
Sandy whipped the steering wheel of the little Kia to the left, barely missing a small pickup that had started to pull out from a stop sign on the right. She shook her head to clear it, for some reason she felt funny like she could not concentrate. Even worse, her stomach was churning like she needed to throw up. Home. She needed desperately to get home, i...
{This one has cheating in it, sort of. So if you will be outraged, I don't care.} +++ "How come you never gave me one?" Marie asked me out of the clear blue sky. She was sitting looking at her laptop, we had it hooked up in a wireless flood off of our main system. My ears perked up, she had a teasing tone in her voice I had not heard for awhile. "Gave you...