Summer 2014 – Brownwood After my Fourth of July altercation, I tried to avoid people. I was able to stay away from Angie and Erica for a few days, but not from those at work. "I hope the other guy looks worse," Maria said as she tilted her head to examine my face better. "Other guys," I said softly. "Are you okay to work?" "Yeah, but I probably nee...
Set in England * * * CHAPTER 1 The opening episode of the new BBC light drama called 'Department Store London' (DSL) ran for two hours and the advance publicity had been intense because some git in British Broadcasting reputedly with a first-class nose for picking 'winners' had read the script, knew the director intimately (more intimately than the direct...
All characters are 18 years old or older. I am struggling with part nine of Mr. Robinson. So in the meantime I have written this one shot for your consumption. It is nestled in the Shawverse but is a standalone and so doesn't greatly impact any major story arcs. I hope you enjoy it. If you have any suggestions for this story or any others feel free to contac...
The silence during the drive was consuming the attention of the couple in the vehicle. Ray Thompson gazed ahead lost in his private thoughts. Surreptitiously he would allow an occasional peripheral view at his wife, Marilyn. She was concentrating on looking out the passenger side window at whatever caught her interest. Whenever she thought it was safe she wo...
214 Tomi At the bottom of the stairs, I stood at the partition which divided the hall into two and thought about Meiko's warning about never going to the right. The cage doors to the male-slaves were still open. On a whim, I decided to act. Quickly, I walked on the women's side. The doors were open! The girls were inside. I heard gasps of surprise. Yokubo...
You Wandered Down the Lane If there's a theme here, it's this: There's no longer an expectation of privacy because technology, and there's no longer an expectation of fidelity because boredom. Honesty compels me to caution potential readers: —There's an instance of literary theft. Mea culpa. —Where there's too much detail, I was trying to forestall compl...
COFFEE "Thanks for me, Raquel, I'm at the end of my tether and I don't know what to do with Dan anymore." I was meeting Raquel, one of my colleagues for coffee. She knew I was struggling with my husband, but didn't know the problem was in the bedroom. "That's alright, Jo. My pleasure." "Look what I've got to share with you is deeply embarrassing, so I beg...
This story has been on my mind for a long time. It involves two characters from previous stories of mine: "A Bend in the Road," Chapters 1 and 2. This story is going to take a bit of a different direction from the other two. All of these stories are pure fantasy and maybe a little wishful thinking on my part. I hope you enjoy this one. * I had been out of...
Chapter 7 With a shriek Magnolia shot behind Kitty when Skye, in a smelly tracksuit and platform shoes raising her beyond her normal height of six foot two inches, entered the bar at 8:58 and snarled, "Where is this gay woman?" "Skye, calm down. For your information this is Lady Fitzroy but you are to call her Magnolia. And she's not gay; she's ex-gay and...
My name is Greg. This is a story about how I accidentally fell into a relationship with my next-door neighbor. Before I can get to that story, though, you have to understand how much my life changed once I started college... I was a "late bloomer." From the time I was eight years old until my senior year of high school, I was one of the smallest kids in my...