Spring was trying to arrive. The grass was becoming greener, buds were coming to life on the trees, and there was a twinge of new life in the air. Suzanne rounded the curves on the old road like a pro; she'd been driving them for eleven years. She was able to take in the scenery since her hands on the wheel were on auto-pilot. When the cluster of trees came...
Chapter 1 Being a spare day in early spring, when the promise of summer hangs in the air and lifts spirits everywhere, I took to the riverbank to enjoy a little whimsy, to dream a little of the future. The river is my favourite place for such dreaming, with its curious mix of both everything and nothing going on. I can sit there for hours and not really see...
It was one of those things you say in the heat of the moment that, if you're lucky, you get chance to regret. She looked at me with what I'd normally call bedroom eyes, sultry and dark with black lining and thick lashes. Realistically she was the type of woman you took home for one night and spent the rest of your life dreaming about; not the type you took h...
They called themselves The Q'Old and they named their star Kron and they called their home planet Dunzar, which orbited a yellow dwarf star similar to Sol. It was located two hundred seventy eight light years counter spin, according to galactic rotation and thirty-four light years closer to the galactic core and forty-two above. Their planet was the fourth o...
"You lost the bet," he reminded her. Still, she felt oddly numb. She just knew she was going to beat him; he had never been much of a pool player. Big surprises come in small packages, and when you least expect them, he had once told her. He had said that months ago when they first met, and had repeated himself earlier today, just before the games began. But...
I think I was five or six when the magic of Christmas began to be destroyed for me. Before that, it was all sitting on Santa's lap, parades, Christmas village at the mall. Small, penny candy canes were for the asking and there was always a tree. Never the greatest tree but we generally didn't have a Charlie Brown tree either, so yeah, it was a Merry Christma...
Quiet. Nothing. The Beauty and the Ease and the Dreadful Boredom of Nothing. Wasn't there something? From dark to light, eyes wide open face the sky. The thought she tried to bring to clarity was absent now. Just as the sky was clear except for the dazzling sun so was her mind. There was an echo of a sensation that couldn't quite be grasped but its quali...
Back in 1972 while I was in college and working to support my habit of partying, studying and just living in general while at a Jr. College in Southeast Texas and running out of money I joined the Navy to help finish my education. I wanted to be an electrical engineer. I really didn't have those exceptionally high grades in high school so I had to work to su...
Sometimes a dream needs time to cook. It stews on the mind's back burner, bubbling in the juices that form thoughts, lodged in the wrinkly grey meat of one's brain. It was Chicago's fault. In the early nineties I was the new kid, fresh off the farm and too dumb to stay away from Cicero. One evening in the parking lot behind my apartment building, I saw chil...
I realize you don't really know me. Maybe you've read my other stories or maybe this is your first click on something I've penned. Either way, I'm going to make a simple statement you can choose to believe or not: I'm not a racist. I grew up in an urban area in America around lots of people of different skin tones and belief systems. I work in an ethnically...