Chapter 1 – New Beginnings "Good morning! Hey Randalf, where you dreaming about naked women again?" "Wow, Sandra! Why are you walking around like that?" "Like what? You're my big brother!" "Whatever! I'm still a guy. Just put some clothes on already!" "Get over it! All I'm trying to do is cheer up my sad, lonely, celibate big brother. Don't you feel luc...
There's a small bookstore on Conner Avenue, situated near the middle of a block along the north side. The four story brick building houses three businesses on the street level; the bookstore, an artist supply store plus a bicycle shop. None of these businesses are particularly profitable and nor will they go away easily. Conner Avenue has three blocks devote...
Her real name was Ophelia, but there was no way in the world any of these people were ever going to know that. Leah is a marvelous name, and it's not a total bastardization of her given name, so she gets to have her cake (not being called Ophelia) and eat it too (not having parents that hand out guilt trips left and right about something as simple as a name)...
At twenty-seven, I found myself living a dead end life, working a dead end job in a filling station my mother owned. While the work was next to nothing, my idea of finding a good man was not made any brighter by the fact that the store set on an old road, once used for a lot of interstate traffic until the four-lane went in. Most of the customers were the ro...
As I was getting ready for Amanda's graduation, I was thinking these past five months had flown by. Amanda had finished up her PhD work at UCLA and was getting ready to drive back east to be with her family. Both her parents knew that I called her my girlfriend, and Amanda called me her boyfriend, but we were nothing more than fuck buddies. I have met her pa...
I've been living in New York for some time now, comfortably separated, working a bit too much - as a refuge, I suppose. Dating just seemed weird, and I stopped looking for companionship years ago, just happy to stick to my routines, politely accept the dates that my friends set up, and otherwise enjoy my solitude. Then, out of the blue, I met HER, in the de...
This story is based off of an idea that I had around 2002 or so. I had wanted to ask my friend Christina to participate in a porno movie along with my friend Chris and I. I could never work up enough nerve to do so and by the time I did Christina had moved away and we lost touch. Would she have actually done the movie? I highly doubt it but it would have bee...
-Ewww! said Hermione, as she, Ron and Harry crawled into the Gryffindor common room. What IS that smell? -Exploding Wizard Crackers from Zonkos! said Fred. -Filled with the new rotten hen-poop smell! said George. -That's disgusting! said Hermione. -Don't worry, it will wear off in a couple of minutes! said George. He and Fred went over to the fire and...
************** The Harrier was dying. Shrapnel from a rocket propelled grenade had entered the inlet of the Rolls Royce Pegasus engine and broken a turbine blade, starting a chain reaction breaking further blades, the jet engine was tearing it self to pieces. Warning lights and audible sirens were filling the cockpit. A moment off panic had passed throug...
A few months went by [nearing the end of February] and still no word from Jay. Liz had done this dance with Jay several times in the past--it was best to just wait for him to decide he felt like talking to her again. In the meantime, Liz couldn't even begin to pretend that this did not bother her. This was the man she gave up so much for, the man she gave up...