Just About 30 Examples This is a far from complete list and is listed pretty much in the order I personally read or watched or became aware of. 1. Le Morte d'Arthur - King Arthur and Guinevere. King Arthur ultimately dies because of Guinevere and Lancelot's betrayal. (See my essay: "What I Learned from Anony" for a detailed analysis.) 2. The Detective (19...
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...
Prologue:A lifelong collector of goods and objects from far and wide has passed and left the entire collection and the business built around them to the only remaining relative, a niece on a career path of her own. Vikki has taken on the task of administering the estate and liquidating the business and collection. However, she has come to find out that many...
That's right, I blame Amazon. The enormous, omnipresent, really-aught-to-pay-its-taxes company. If it hadn't been for them, I could have probably kept being my perfectly reasonable, boring self. Good ol' Marie. Sugary and vanilla. Like a cupcake in human form. But, no, they had to go and have this series about people being in polyamorous relationships on the...
For those not familiar with Playboy magazine, Asa Baber writes a column on men each month, usually a masculinist interpretation of relationships with women. His essay in the December, 95 issue was titled "multisexual in 1996," and started as an exploration of bisexuality when one of his old cronies confessed to a new found sexual identity. However, Baber ran...
Inspired by an annoying TV presenter The man behind a very popular, annual, main channel UK TV series manufactures another episode, to humiliate a very annoying news anchor woman. All names have been changed to acknowledge celebrity status. ***** What could I do to find another successful group of friends, they usually are, to form another choir for my hu...
Randy Alan needed to fine-tune his radio telescope to cut through the loud noise that the modern world brought it. Being an amateur, he could not afford a very large telescope or powerful computer or move to an isolated part of the world. His solution was to use his own nervous system as the way to seek out and hone in on those signals most compatible with t...
Just 9 hours ago, Priyanka (Priya) had a lustrous thick mane of knee-length black hair and it was her pride. Her fair skin, with a well sculptured face, along with a perfect body shape and size made her a beauty to be reckoned with. She was an egoistic, self-cantered person and looked down upon others. She thought the world was meant to serve her for her i...
All characters in this story are over 18 years. *** In the crowded bar-lounge Clement hesitated a moment, looking about for a table. Everyone seemed to be with someone else. And here was he going to a pub to be among people for the sake of it. He made his way through the crowd to stand at the far end of the bar where several couples were hovering. Coming u...
The Fenway crowd leapt to its feet, roaring their approval for the two squads of warriors, as the ninth inning drew to a close. Todd Castle, America's most well-respected sportscaster and the man who was considered "The Voice Of Baseball", uttered into his microphone to a worldwide audience: "Folks, you're not dreaming, and this isn't Iowa. We're at Fenway...