Mike's Navy: a novel in five parts Part 2: Mike Meets Marlene copyright 2014 Welcome to the world of Michael Claymore. For those who are fans of Mike's from his mystery novels what we have here is a series about his life prior to the mysteries. We will discover what makes him tick, so to speak. I envision this prequel series in the following way: b...
Hello everyone, Well here is chapter 12 at long last. I would like to thank Seth for his help with this chapter and continued support. I hope you all enjoy reading this chapter as much as I enjoyed writing it. Please leave your comments and send me feedback so that I know I'm heading in the right direction with this story. Thanks to everyone w...
This is a fictional Account. *********************************** Author's Note: Thanks to all of you that have sent me very positive comments on this series. Here is the sixth of ten. I apologize for the time between posting chapters. These need a bit of editing before I post them and then they take a few days to be approved. I will try to keep them coming...
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....
"Don't go 'round tonight It's bound to take your life There's a bad moon on the rise" -Creedence Clearwater Revival *** Lavinia's eyes dropped from the mirror and she couldn't help looking at the newspaper headline blaring at her from the top of the bureau: "'WEREWOLF' STRIKES AGAIN!" She stopped what she was doing long enough drop the paper into t...
"It is a matter of grave importance that fairy tales should be respected. A nation without fancy, without some romance, never did, never can, never will, hold a great place under the sun." Charles Dickens, "Frauds on the Fairies," 1 October, 1853 "There are no great men, there are only great challenges, which ordinary men like you and me are forced by circu...
~!~ My apology for the late update. HAPPY NEW YEAR! ~!~ "Come to New York." It was the first thing Storm said to Sally as soon as she answered the phone. "What do you mean? When? Why?" Storm laughed. It was the reaction he knew he was going to get. Sally never did anything without questions or so it seemed. "I mean I want you here in New York with me...
As I knocked on the door of a building in the refurbished warehouse district of the town, wracked with uncertainty, my mind replayed the circumstances that had brought me to this. I am a 35-year old Professor at a middle-level women's college in a small city in the north-east. The students are the kind that didn't make it to their top Ivy choices and ended...
This story is the first of several which will build on these characters and the situations introduced here. Each will stand on its' own and as such I decided not to make it a story in chapter form. ------------------------------------------ Tom Prentice walked into The Embers Restaurant and took a look around. It was not any different from his last visit,...
"What's this?" Jim asked, as he picked a small leather bound book up off of the nightstand. "It looks like the old man's diary. He was writing in it quite a bit these past few days," replied Robert, the other hospital orderly. "Well, what should I do with it?" questioned Jim. "Either throw it away or keep it. The old man had no friends or relatives that I...