Chapter 20: Robin Sunday was a day of rest for me. The women slept late as they had been up into the early hours of the morning. I awoke midafternoon but lay in bed until dinner time. I was confused and my body hurt. How could I allow these sadistic women to continue torturing my body and play with my mind? Sure, I was getting plenty of sex, but the payment...
In life, everyone makes compromises. We give something to get something. It isn't often both sides get everything they want, or end up completely satisfied with whatever it is, once they've gotten it. Ben and Gabrielle, however, had always been happy with each other, and with the little trade-offs their life together sometimes required. The events that led...
This is a continuation to the story "Starting Over", which was written several years ago. It was not just a stroke story, but had some more fleshed out characters. I've tried to get started on this sequel several times, but never got going on it. In the first chapter of Book II, we saw John Jackson pulled back into another crime that has been inflicted on o...
Starting Over II, Chapter 1. This is a continuation to the story "Starting Over", which was written several years ago. It was not just a stroke story, but had some more fleshed out characters. I've tried to get started on this sequel several times, but never got going on it. Here, finally, is a continuation. The previous story took place in late 2012 up...
Mid-October, 2018 "Uh-huh. Sure." "Dude, I am NOT kidding!" his best friend since junior high insisted. "A cougar cruise." "Yes, a cougar cruise!" "Where 'hot' older women meet younger men. For sex." "I knew you'd get it, man! Talk about great, right?" "Yeah. Great. Woo-hoo." "Come on, Gavin. Go with me, man!" his longtime friend, Darren Lewis, plead...
"Come on Laura! You only live once!" exclaims Michelle in frustration regarding Laura's reaction to the idea of male strippers at her bachelorette party. Blushing more and more Laura shakes her head. She's always been quiet and fairly shy. The idea of a couple of men dancing around and taking off their clothes all in her honour absolutely horrifies her. Sh...
"I'll see your ten and raise you twenty," said Allan. As he spoke he tossed three blue chips from his very short stack into the large pot sitting in the middle of the table. He then leaned back in hardwood kitchen chair. His lanky body made him look very thin, but his friends knew he was in better condition than some of them. He wore his blonde-from-a-box ha...
All events portrayed in the following are completely fictitious. Not a bit actually happened folks. I awoke to the tone of "Shout It Out Loud" coming from my cell phone. I groggily reached for it. "Hello?" I asked into the receiver. "Jake?" said a female voice. "This is he." "Jake, it's Mila." "WHAT? What the fuck are you doing calling me? I thought it...
This story takes place in 1978, twenty years before "The Heart Shaped Pendant." It was an early October night, a warm Indian summer indulgence. I reclined on a lawn chair in my back yard with a cold lemonade next to me, basking in the southern zephyrs wearing only my shorts. It was a night to celebrate: my latest book, an adventure novel, had just made the...
CHAPTER FOURTEEN "Take the first step, and your mind will mobilize all its forces to your aid. But the first essential is that you begin. Once the battle is startled, all that is within and without you will come to your assistance." – Robert Collier Loki pulled out a hunting knife and quickly cut Aloysius' bonds and then lightly slapped his friend's cheeks...