So I'm back with another story. Finally! These things take longer and longer for me to write. I keep thinking I'm getting better at telling a story, but the reality is that I'm just getting slower at working on them. I think this makes 24 stories now that I've written over the last 5 or 6 years. I can't believe that I've been at it this long... and I don't...
Nine months ago Tom moved into the unit next door to ours and it was a quiet Sunday morning when he came across the landing we shared and introduced himself. He explained that he was an airline pilot who worked 4 days on, 3 days off and would only ever use his flat for those 3 days each week. He seemed like a lovely guy so my wife Kat invited him over for di...
2003 Writers come up with 'meet cutes' all the time with future soul mates colliding into each other. No matter how big a mess they make, it's all adorable and romantic, or snarky if they hate each other at first. So it was ironic that I bumped into a writer in this way. But this wasn't like the movies. When I ran into Tina Fey and spilled our food and dri...
With less than two hours to spare Lonnie Turner had gotten home after a quick liquor store run to get a couple cases of beer. Saving the Corona bottles for himself he chilled the Buds in his freezer. Every couple weeks he and his buddies from his school days got together and watched some type of sport. Tonight was a late baseball game. It gave them all reaso...
Oscar is a down on his luck thief who starts dreaming the future. Robyn is a high school science teacher searching for answers after her mother is murdered. Romeo is a dangerous assassin plotting to infiltrate a secretive Columbian drug cartel. Johnny is an ambitious and manipulative nightclub owner looking to move up in the world. Zulse is a geeky unive...
Authour's Note: This is the second part of a longer series. To fully enjoy this chapter, please read A Week With Mr. Hansen Ch. 01 first! * I woke up slowly, clutching my blankets around me in a futile attempt to cling to the wonderful sleep I had been having. I yawned as I opened my eyes. There was sun leaking through the cracks in my blinds and judging f...
Chapter Seven Wednesday had come again and Monica was more nervous than usual. Would Dennis pose? She had some things ready to be used for still life drawing just in case he decided he wasn't ready for that step. After the events of the previous week she thought he probably would, but wasn't sure. She looked at the semi-circle of chairs and easels she had a...
Sean was having trouble breathing as he gazed at is lithe young co-star. Elijah was across from him, soaking wet after the scene in the rain and looking for all the world more beautiful than the first time they had met. He pondered his dilemma as he watched the younger man laugh and joke with the other two hobbits and the make up people during the short set...
Chapter 5 - Clucking Hell A week ago... Marsha Patterson walked along the park path, her poodle Mookie ahead on her leash, sniffing at this and that. Marsha was up early, getting her bit of exercise before heading to work. Nobody else was up so she had the park to herself. The sun was just beginning to appear on the horizon. She was lost in thought and di...
I realize that it has been a few years since I promised this sequel, and I do apologize. I hope that you enjoy. ***** Pulling into the drive, Terry shook her blond head, trying to clear away the last of the cobwebs still clogging her thinking. Her mind ran back over the events the events of earlier in the evening, strange as they were, but only disjointed...