Dame on the Dune © Gene Majors Three weeks into the fall quarter of my second year at the Summerston Junior College (1962), our JC Tennis Club decided we needed a break before the fall round of tournaments began. To us, a break, meant an all-day picnic, waterskiing, and a general sight-seeing cruise around the river canyon seventy five miles to the east. To...
The war is finally over. The lady dressed in black bows her head as your King signs the last slip of paper, signing away her freedom and that of her people. Her proud features struggle to conceal signs of a broken spirit and she shakily rises to leave as she is dismissed. Yes, the war is over, and it is now time to celebrate your hard-fought victory. You gri...
The Leanaped attack cut us off from the rest of the world. We were trapped and did not know what was going to happen to us. Life on the island before the invasion was focused around three main things, tourism and export of sugar and pineapple. The war ended all that as there was no oil for the planes and ships and a large portion of the world's population h...
Reunion, Workout, First Date (Female-primary version) Despite the miserable weather outside, Cindy walked through the terminal of Logan airport with a spring in her step for two reasons; her plane had landed safely, and since she had only carry-on luggage she could head straight home. Both of those were unusually significant since the ice storm made flying...
Nothing In Life Is Free Jesse was on a solo road trip. Some time away on his own to deal with the divorce he hadn't wanted. He had tried to make it work for eleven years, and he had stopped trying when he realized that no amount of money, travel, or "quality time" would make his wife happy. He started doing what he had wanted. He started working out, read t...
The only thing more useless than a yacht is person who sails them. They go on and on about iron men in wooden boats, driving before the wind, but what happens when the wind dies? The iron men sit there, with all the manoeuvrability of a stick, waiting for someone smarter and an engine to come to their rescue. Some of them, of course, are prepared to sit ther...
My headache begins easing up once Scott starts the car. I have no idea what brought on those horrifying visions or that eerie, distorted voice inside my head, but I'm thankful they're gone. Still, I can't explain what's going on with me, that's even if I knew where to start. Anyway, when we pull away from the overlook, we run over something. The metallic cr...
Chapter 10 Jake sped away. He wanted to get home before Bonnie and make it as though he had never left the house. When she arrived back, she greeted him with a beaming smile and a long, lovely kiss. "Wow," he replied in surprise. "I'm back, babe," she said, as if returning from a whole other universe. They went on kissing for several minutes. "How...
I had finally just screw it and decided to take a weekday morning off to avoid the busy auto shopping times and buy my new truck. I went to our local dealer for more info about the truck I was thinking about buying. I didn't want to be rushed so I call work and told them I wouldn't be in and started looking around the lot for the color I wanted. Since I ha...
I was stranded! And I couldn't believe my luck. The entire morning had been rush rush rush...and here I stand beside a man who had already rubbed me the wrong way on several occasions, yet he was still practically a stranger. Yes, I had seen him at other meetings throughout the past few months, and with each encounter I came away feeling that I would dearly...