Ron awakened when the alarm went off and he lay in bed for a few more minutes thinking about the day ahead. He finally decided to get up and moved the covers aside. He looked down and saw a slight bulge in his abdomen. He moved his hand down and it felt on the firm side. He felt nothing though as he was a paraplegic and had no feeling from his chest down. He...
Pt. IV: CirCUMstantial Evidence In the drive up Interstate 15 to Salt Lake City which took all night and part of the morning, Jack thought about how it was not one of his favorite places. He had been there twice before. Getting information was often like pulling teeth. One of the strangest places he had ever been; like a totally different planet. His past...
Blown to pieces, a war hero returns home for Halloween. It was a Tuesday, just after 9am, when Brad heard about the plane crashing in the Twin Towers. He didn't have a first class until later and he was still in bed. His dormitory at Boston College was alive with people congregating in the corridors and in one another's rooms and they had already burst in h...
I'm John Smith; yeah that's my real name; my parents had no originality. Most people think that I'm being a smart ass when I tell them my name, but I've learned not to give a crap. As of the 2010 U. S. Census there were more than 2.3 million Smiths including 44,935 real John Smith's, and hundreds of thousands of men who registered in motels with that name....
Bev had been dismissed from the hospital two weeks ago. She was doing great and able to be at home alone when Lou was at work. She had talked to the people in the Army Human Resource area and there was a job that she was qualified for, on paper, at a military hospital in the northwest part of the country. She was disappointed in the location because she did...
Life was good, extraordinarily good; I would even go so far as to say it was perfect. Feeling relaxed and mellow my beautiful wife of ten years and I were returning home from a banquet and ball staged by my employer to celebrate an exceptionally profitable year for the firm, with the event acknowledged to also celebrate the big promotions of both myself and...
Writer's Note: This is a story for adults over eighteen years of age about adults over eighteen years of age. While the story line is true, the dialog has been compressed for the sake of time and space. Safe sex was not an issue in the early sixties and seventies but should be a concern for everyone today. ***** Why is it that husbands get such a bad rap a...
Pete Hascomb sat in the waiting room of the Huntington memorial hospital in South Pasadena California. He looked down at his hands, tracing the soft contours of his thin fingers and small knuckles. Every day now, his muscles seemed to shrink. The toes of his left foot had slowly knotted into fragile pink nubs since he became bound to a wheelchair. His fat...
Chapter 12 I awoke to the sound of my alarm. Only it didn't sound like my alarm but something was definitely beeping at me. I was confused. Had Jess got a new clock? I tried to look over to see what time it was but I couldn't turn my head and the speed of the beeping picked up. It was at this time that the pain in my body kicked in and I groaned loudly and...
She couldn't sleep. Abigail tossed and turned, every once in a while she'd glare at the phone Gabriel had given her accusingly. After closing the photo gallery earlier, she'd set it on her nightstand. She hadn't expected him to call her soon, but it was already past midnight. How far away did he live anyway? Can I call you tonight? His deep gravelly voice...