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Crime & Punishment Pt. 01

by RichardGerald on Sep 26, 2017
Loving Wives

This is my first submission. I would like to thank xtchr for the very patient editing and the remarkable job he did catching my bad capitalization and punctuation. Unfortunately I added to this after he finished so a few mistakes may have sneaked in. He also gave me much needed encouragement. That said this is fiction. Yes I borrowed some from reality, but n...

Crime & Punishment Pt. 04

by RichardGerald on Sep 26, 2017
Loving Wives

I hope you can forgive me for the length of time this has taken, but I am new to this and envisioned the story as much smaller. However, it seemed to take on a life of its own, as did the characters. I would like to thank tchr for the editing which went well beyond just fixing my truly terrible punctuation. I had to make major changes to the text after his l...

Crime & Punishment Pt. 03

by RichardGerald on Sep 26, 2017
Loving Wives

I had intended that this would be the last part of this story. However, after reading the feedback from all those kind enough to comment and to email me I have decided to move directly into what I saw as a sequel. It also avoids my having to put what I am my editor saw as a weak end on the tale of Patrick and Laura. So what follows is just chapter three. T...

Crime & Punishment Pt. 02

by RichardGerald on Sep 26, 2017
Loving Wives

I would like to thank 'tchr' for his editing which is a big job because of my poor grammar. I also thank everyone who left comments and emailed me. At this time I apologize for the switch from the first person in part one to the third in part two. This part is primarily from Laura's point of view. If that bothers you just skip this part and proceed directly...

A Slow Dance

by RichardGerald on Sep 25, 2017
Loving Wives

As those who have written me recently know, I have been working on longer projects. But since so many asked for something in the interim, I went through my incomplete folder and pulled out an unfinished story. I hope you like the ending. I think it fits. ***** My daughter Annabelle has reached what are sometimes referred to as the terrible twos. If you a...

Unfaithful

by RichardGerald on Sep 12, 2017
Loving Wives

Copyright © 2017 by Richard Gerald dtverson, a good friend, recently wrote a story using the play "Tea and Sympathy" by Robert Anderson as a backdrop. I have never seen the Deborah Kerr film, but I have read the play and seen it perform on stage. Something has always bothered me about the Anderson play. The main character engages in adultery with if not a...

What?

by RichardGerald on Sep 13, 2017
Loving Wives

Dear readers: The current work has been reviewed by a few. Most agree it has flaws. It is a second half to the story "When." You know my sick version of a love story. People objected that it was no romance. Further, it was also almost universally agreed that it could only go one of two ways. But this is fiction, right? Thank you Vickie and all the others w...

Kate Gets Her Man

by RichardGerald on Sep 18, 2017
Romance

This is the first part of a love story. As you might guess from my other stories, I have rather a dark view of love. But please don't judge the story only by part one. I want to thank Vickie Tern for all the editing assistance. It is a big job and I tinkered with it after she finished. There will always still be mistakes because this is free, and I am no pro...

Kate Gets Her Man Ch. 03

by RichardGerald on Sep 18, 2017
Romance

Once again thanks to Vickie for her help Kate sometimes wondered how her life would have turned out if she had never married. She had a promising career as a New York City Police officer before her disastrous marriage had forced her to abandon life in the big city. Few people realize how rural most of New York State is. Reach into its northern mountains...

Kate Gets Her Man Ch. 02

by RichardGerald on Sep 18, 2017
Romance

By 7:15 Friday night Kathryn was a wreck. Sophie the seventeen-year-old high school senior from four doors down had come to babysit Tommy. Dennis Morgan was due at 7:30 and Kate's dress was too short. It was the simple black dress she had purchased just after her marriage some eight years before. It was too tight and too short. Why did she think it would fit...