WARNING: Don't read this story if easily offended by niceness. The desire to create, to be given the opportunity to use any such talent for reward and to experience the joy of witnessing the end results rested deep within Freddie Redding, a media studies graduate from a third-rate college. However, because of his lowly degree plus lack of experience invar...
She hadn't seen her Aunt Margo in many years but she wasn't feeling guilty. Her family had made it clear. They did not agree with two women living together. The telephone call had to be dealt with immediately though. Margo was her mother's sister and had received the lion's share of the estate at the probate three years earlier. The call wasn't from her Aunt...
After the night of the celebration, Ann really scolded herself. How could she be so reckless? If anyone found out, she could be fired – and embarrassed around town, as the details would undoubtedly leak out. She promised herself she wouldn't yield to temptation again. The following day, she called Allen at home and explained things to him. She told him it w...
Thanks to the Hip and Knee doctor for editing assistance. * It was lunchtime on Friday at the Peanut Bar. The Idiots Club meets here, once a week to share our miseries. The membership is not very impressive, just four middle age guys with one thing in common: our wives are each cheating on us. Bradley Cook, Ray Timmons, Karl Marshall, and myself, John Te...
Richard found a window seat on the train. He was on his way out of town to find his to his first job. The journey took two hours, and he got to Blazerville at supper time. He asked the porter where to find a motel, and was directed to the Morrison motel. The walk took about twenty minutes. Richard took a room on the ground floor, arranging to stay for...
Chapter 17 Nicci had enough feeling sorry for herself. She sighed. There was no choice really. She loved her father dearly, but Justin was her future. She just had to hope her father came to his senses one day and they could be a family again. Until he could see her for more than a little girl needing protection, which she hadn't been for quite a while, it...
All characters are over 18 years of age. *** Nora and her family had been considering for some time whether it was time to leave war-ravaged Aleppo in Syria. They had been preparing to leave if things got much worse. Unfortunately the decision was taken out of their hands. Nora and her parents had been on their way to the market when the alarm sounded. Her...
"Gloria? I want to apologize for the way we bickered yesterday. I feel horrible. You can take your time repaying me for the cash advance." pouted the stunning Jordan Bauer. Her portly Hostess Gloria Marquette merely frowns, "No big deal. It was my fault. I shouldn't have been abusing the phone line. No hard feelings. I'll pay you back you can bet on that."...
The two Petreau boys were watching over their mother's apartment while she was on an extended European vacation with her church group. The two brothers were upper classmen at a college in another town and had summer jobs that kept them too busy for meeting girls. They had returned from a late supper to find that the contractor had left a mess in their apartm...
Most everyone knows a place located away from their home where they seem inevitably run into someone from their hometown. In Kentucky, the rest stop at Beaver Dam on the West Kentucky Parkway, is one of those places. Our story starts there. David Hancock was on his way to Lexington for a business meeting. Going out of town for business was unusual for him....