I lost all my retirement money, house, an old car, wife and son. My wife left me when our son was a year old. She couldn't bear with my gambling habit knowing l never could change. I gambled with every single cent I had always hoping for the "LUCKY BREAK" that never came, first my retirement money, then my old car and finally my house all wasted on the false...
This is the final submission of a 5 part series, if you haven't read the other chapters this will make no sense to you. ***** With things going well at the bakery and Down Town Donuts I'm able to concentrate most of my time and efforts on the kids and home. Amelia still works full time, she says when the last two are in school she thinks she'll be done, s...
At sixty-nine, I had reached the age where my health was inevitably going downhill. By most standards I was pretty healthy - I could still cycle fifty plus miles in a day without problems though running was a problem because of a knee injury eight years earlier. After Liz, my partner of over forty years and wife of over thirty died, I moved to somewhere I co...
Darryl walked slowly down the recently mopped, tiled hallway. Tears leaked from his eyes. It wasn't just from his visit. It was also the ammonia-based cleaning fluid's smell that barely covered the urine smell present throughout the nursing home. He had just come from seeing his wife or, rather, the shell of his wife. Alzheimer's had robbed her of any recent...
Chapter 2 Meeting a Hero This story is a work of fiction only. Any chance resemblance to actual people or events is purely accidental. After about a month in the Hospital, I was cycled back to the U.S. for rehab therapy and medically retired from the Marines. Flying home again for the first time since my reserve unit was activated, I was glad to exc...
Edgar was old. He accepted that. He was in a 'retirement' home. "Screw that" he thought, "it's a damn nursing home." Edgar's wife of 54 years, Alison had passed about 4 years prior. His sons and daughter had tried to take care of Edgar, or Eddy but found it too hard. "Hard my ass," Eddy would say, "It's not like I need CARE or anything." Eddy would occasion...
I most likely began to lose my hearing about twenty-five years ago, but it didn't change my life style very much. Early in my career I had taught classes in Parenting, and one of the main emphasis of the class was effective listening. I was good at effective listening and I learned to lip-read without any formal training. A good listener doesn't just hear...
Thirty two years had passed since the The Bombardment of Earth. The Federation Council was meeting to set the succession to the Empress in motion as well as discuss other items of business including setting a time frame for the admittance of Earth to the Federation of Planets. The people of Earth had hoped they had made a good enough impression that it woul...
The next day Dan left the house straight after breakfast, he said he was going to see some old army pals of his, they lived in a retirement home just a short walk away, and he didn't know what time he would be back. I amused myself and lazed around and generally had a rest, Dan came back about 4 o'clock and said he had a very nice day. He told me they where...
Part 1 New to the Club As I was sitting at the orientation in the Mature Fantasy Club with my wife Lauren, I reflected briefly on the events leading to my being here. My name is Jay. A few months ago I retired from an executive position with a corporation in the Midwest and moved to a retirement community in the South to enjoy the Golden Years. I was fairl...