I flirt with the ladies. It is just something that I did. I did it without even thinking about it; it just came natural. None of them were ever going to take me up on anything I said and I knew it. Christ, I was fifty-two years old and the girls I flirted with were all in their twenties and were married or had boyfriends. Besides, they all knew my wife and t...
This is basically all true autobiographical stuff - but I've changed a few things like names and specific places to protect the innocent. I've also changed a few ages to conform to proper standards. ***** Chess is a game invented to help teach principles of structured conflict and specifically warfare in the age of cavalry and castles. It can also teach so...
I first saw her at the new convenience store on the corner of the new bypass and Walnut Road. I had stopped in to get a six pack and as I walked through the door, she greeted me almost as if she knew me. I couldn’t help but smile. She had that kind of effect on me. She was almost as tall as I am and I stand six feet even. She was young but it was hard to te...
The headline confirmed what everyone in town had suspected. In an age of multiplexes, the Lyric was a white elephant; a giant single-screen theatre with a balcony and spacious lobby, built in another era for people who lived life far differently than they do today. "Honey, they are finally closing down the Lyric," Alex called out from the kitchen table. Er...
The next morning, Jack woke up to an empty bed. At first he wondered if he'd imagined the events of last night. Had he really fucked that amazing blonde from the Interstate? He had to have dreamed it. He took inventory of what he could sense in that room. The clock told him it was 6:45am, it was pitch black in the room other than the light from the digital c...
The fates aligned with me, the next three trains I hopped all took me south and west heading closer to Texas. The fourth train, mostly loaded with empty petrochemical containers, took me nearly all of the way there deep into Southeast Texas and almost to the coast. I felt I was somewhere close, but not quite there yet, and it had been a very long time sinc...
Prefix to Chapter 3 Dear Reader, I advise you to read Parts 1 & 2 before you start here. Part 1 tells about Bubbles summer job and how she scraped together the money to go off to New York. Needless to say her sexual misadventures in the Pharmacy were legion. Part 2 tells of the exciting bus ride on her way to New York and her adventures with a grinning reta...
The Earth had changed, the old nations had fallen into eclipse. There were less than one billion people on the planet almost all of whom lived in the northern hemisphere. By the 2600s there was no permanent ice anywhere in the world except on the highest mountain tops. The witch and her apprentice traveled the roads that rimmed the Sea Of Darkness. It had...
Judi's letter said: To my dearest love and husband, Casimir McCracken, whom I'll never see again in this life, here's the explanation of my fall, degradation and my quickly-coming death: All the experts say, 'start at the beginning,' so here it is, dumb decisions, my lies, willing-drugging, cheating and sexing and all. You remember the conference for my j...
He'd seen the ad running in the local paper for the past several weeks, and he had to admit, it intrigued him - "Discrete handyman needed for long-term remodel work. One employer, private residence needing significant updates based on owners' personal needs. Rewards commensurate with performance. Contact............" He thought it might be the way it was w...