Please allow me to apologize to everyone for pulling an eighteen month disappearing act. Let's just say that things changed and for a while I no longer enjoyed writing or remembering this time in my life. I am now fine with it- it's part of who I am and I'm glad I kept a journal of it. Writing is therapeutic for me, and I plan to continue. Welcome to Chapt...
Darin, Callie, and Tessa were at their favorite Italian restaurant waiting to order their food when Darin's phone rang. He frowned when he saw it was his mother calling, but answered it anyway in case it was an emergency. "Hello?" "Darin, Sophie just showed up. She said she's failing another term, so she skipped out the last couple weeks and didn't take fi...
Dear Sue, I haven't written to you in so long and I wanted to catch you up on what Tom and I have been doing. Oh, my God! He is still the love of my life. Remember how we always go away for his birthday? Well, this year wasn't any different. I don't know if I ever told you how he has a goal to spend each and every August 12th somewhere different, and some...
Author's Note: I haven't written one this short in awhile. It was nice to get it out of my head in in under 20,000 words. Thanks Tim413413 - at least I am starting to make it a little easier to edit. ***** Mailboxes had been innocuous things most of my life. The last year had made mine something to fear. It was a simple white metal box, sitting atop a cros...
This is a flash story. It's a one off and everything you need to know is in it. ***** Larry's final gift to his wife People are very different. As I am in my 6th decade (Holy Shit Batman! How the fuck did that happen?) Other boomers and I have begun to deal with mortality issues. (For now forget about Viet Nam and that draft. If you weren't affected by it...
I learned a lesson the other day. I found out that doing your best to take care of your family is not always appreciated and in some instances it can actually destroy your marriage. Candace and I have been married for more than twenty-five years and during that time we lived what most would consider an upper middle class life. We had three children, acquire...
Thank you Candace. It was Friday afternoon and it's been two hours since they left New York. They still had one more hour of driving d left before reaching their home. They had accompanied their only child, Lisa, to her campus. She was starting college. Nancy turned and looked at her husband, Bill, at the steering wheel of his Ford Transit. They could not t...
Nanny's house was a small, two bedrooms, wooden framed one near a cotton mill. She and my great-grandfather had worked at the mill. Back in those days, the companies felt it was best to have workers that lived near the mills. They built what was called mill villages, dozens and hundreds of basic houses near their plants. Then they sold them to the workers, t...
"You are now divorced." The arbitrator announced the end of my marriage. After years of suffering her lying, cheating and stealing I was finally free! Of course the courts gave her most of the money and the house. My lawyer warned me this would occur. In my state, the women are given preferential treatment. Time to start over. First step, find a place to l...
Some of my stories start off as short stories, but they take on a life of their own and turn into full novels. In the Lovers From Beyond series, Vivian's Escapades was meant to be a short story, but it ended up being a full novel. Similarly, my first Heartbreakers short story turned into an entire trilogy. That's what happened here with Finding Paradise. Ori...