Twenty-Eight Years Ago Northern Minnesota BRIIING BRIIIING BRIIIING The sheets pulled down as I moved an arm towards the phone at my bedside. My glossy black hair, messy with the few hours sleep I had just been roused from, covered my light olive complexion as I reached for it. I saw the clock, 3:28 AM, as I pulled the handset towards my ear. "Doc DelM...
Author's Note: This is a work of fiction. Please note that the story is based in Australia and is written in Queen's English therefore my American audience will notice subtle differences in wording or phrases. This is the story of a family deeply involved in the world of boxing and how decisions can change the course of many lives. Copyright© 2009 by David...
WARNING: Our leading lady blots her character, becoming involved in adultery and sister-sister sex. But the clean-cut man becoming increasingly influential in her life will almost certainly improve her morality through example. Er hopefully. ----- CHAPTER 1 After the funeral and the last visitors had left, Helen Nelson sat with her three daughters while...
With the help of an old con artist-card sharp, a young husband creates the perfect setup to con his bitch of a wife into a divorce on his terms. But there is always a joker in the deck and things don't turn out exactly as he had planned. This story goes into a LOT of detail about a game of five-card stud, jokers wild. If you aren't into card games, it might...
Author's note: I would like to apologize in advance to my readers. In the retelling of this story it sort of took on a life of its own. Normally my tales are fairly brief and concise, this one however seemed only to grow as I put pen to paper. (Figuratively speaking). Since it did turn out to be rather long I have decided to break it down into several smal...
Readers, the first 2 chapters of this story with a few enhanced events to make it interesting are basically true. Names are changed. The rest of the story is total fiction. There's A Serpent In Every Garden CHAPTER 1 It's been two years since my wife, Regina, decided to take her own life at the age of 44. We had been married twenty six years and had an 18...
Chapter three: Friday, March 20, 2020. I woke up the next morning to an empty bed. I groped around for my phone and saw that it was already 10:00. Way to sleep away the morning, you lazy bum, I thought, and stumbled downstairs in my pyjamas looking for coffee. Everyone else was downstairs sitting around the dining room table, working on their laptops. Sony...
Love and Sex in the Time of the Coronavirus Spring 2020 "It is not a lack of love that drives most marriages apart, but a lack of trust." - Felix Francis in "Triple Crown," 2016 # "Paul, what the fuck is going on?" My wife rarely used profanities before the epidemic. A month of working daily fourteen-hour shifts as a nurse had strained even her Chri...
Chapter 1 After the funeral and the last visitors had left, Helen Nelson sat with her three daughters and told husband Harry to fetch drinks. Helen held the hand of her youngest red-eyed and newly widowed Carrie Lamb. Across from them sat Beth Nichols, happily married to a surgeon, and Debbie Muir, who'd become happily wealthy after being divorced by a m...
On the sixth day they started removing bandages from Shane's head so she no longer looked like The Mummy. Dr. Hopkinson and three techs hooked her up to a maze of wires and sensors, and ran more series of tests. Then they took her down to the CAT scan room and took a couple hours worth of pictures and studies and views. About 4 p.m. Dr. Hopkinson came to the...