Gloria Simpson sits in the service department waiting room. Her eyes stare in the direction of the old woman on the other side of the small room, but not looking at her. She blinks and slowly comes out of a small trance like daze, then shifts in the uncomfortable chair. She had been alone in the room. Tall metal crutches lean against the wall next to the wo...
Trinity River, Riverside Texas~ "Shake," I would put my hand out, Numchucks would lift his Paw and place it in my palm and I'd give him a treat. "Sit" and "Stay" were achieved easily, "Heel" was almost instinctive. The one thing I recall the most about Retrievers is while I've been out hunting and see a set of hunters off in the distance, chasing their dog...
Nikki's husband was hardly ever home . . . Business . . . Or so she was told, it was probably true, but she had long since stopped caring if he was having an affair. She had good reasons to no longer worry about hubby, she was into another man emotionally, and he had been into her, physically. Nikki looked at herself in the mirror, she could not stop time,...
I see you look at me from across the crowded room, people moving around in front of us like a busy hive. My attention is pulled away back to the meeting that I'm in requires my attention. after a few minutes I look back and you're gone, my heart drops and I feel the disappointment in my gut. Later that evening as I'm walking I round a corner and I notice yo...
"Hey big boy, want to have a good time?" I couldn't believe it. Here was one of the people I was to guard against, propositioning me! As security chief for the Edgewater Casino in Las Vegas, one of my jobs was to hold the hookers down to a dull roar. As part of the service to our customers, we tolerated a few of the nicer ones and even encouraged some of...
For several reasons, among which are the price of gasoline and the size of his winter gut, Hubby decided to walk to work to the harbor in the morning. To give himself even more exercise, he went the long way, the primitive road through the bush around the airstrip. He was a little apprehensive about meeting a hungry spring bear, but the longer walk was worth...
CHAPTER 3: EVE'S LOUNGE I left the house the back way at 1655. That way any nosy neighbours wouldn't be alerted by the sound of my front door closing. If I had to make a run for it no one would know which house I'd come out of either. I walked nonchalantly up the lane and turned the corner back into Harbour Street. No signs of life except Christmas lights t...
Derrick never understood why his mother always told him to always be clean and change his underwear until his chance encounter with April. Chances are good he'll never have to be prompted again. It had been a beautiful spring afternoon and the flowers were perfuming the air. Derrick had been on his way to town via the back roads to pick up his steady girlfr...
Kenny brushed the flies from Angelique's gentle face. Cradling her head in his lap he returned to softly rocking her. They sat on the earthen floor of the barn, warmed by a thick slab of afternoon sunlight pouring in from between the broad doors. Their farm languished on a rocky patch of the old riverbed, immersed in a sea of tall billowing poplars. In fro...
Alice stumbled out of her car covering her mouth with one hand and dabbing at the smeared makeup running down from her tear stained eyes with a crumpled up Kleenex. "I'm so sorry." She cried. The guy in the pickup took a bit longer to get you, but when he did he was obviously pissed off. His chest was puffed out, his shoulders were reared back and he glared...