Many thanks to those who offered comments and constructive criticism on my previous stories. For those who want to say this or that would never happen, remember this is my universe, a place where nearly anything can, and often does, happen. At least on paper... The reference to Dr. Steiner comes from "The Beast Within." Please refer to my profile for more...
_____________ 13 ____________ "Randy, I'd like you to meet Andrea, Andrea, this is Randy," I said. "Hello, Randy, it's a pleasure," Andrea said smiling and shaking hands with Randy. "Likewise, Andrea" Randy replied, returning the smile. We now began walking with Randy into the equipment yard, while Andrea and I sipped our coffees. "Randy, I really feel...
We were sitting in our study, getting ready for the new semester that would start shortly when we received a call from Helen saying that something totally unexpected had happened and she would see us tomorrow. She wouldn't say another word because she just couldn't explain it over the phone. We were shocked, of course, and Sandy, who had talked to her, said...
It was a routine he'd stuck with for years. Every weekday morning, thirty two year old Matt Bremner would rise early, and after a piece of toast and an orange juice would hit the road for a thirty minute run round the harbour road. It was time he used to reflect on his days activities, as the sweat flowed freely he prioritised his workload to keep ahead of t...
A friend called Mark had connected my home computer to a group from work that wanted no frills sex. Most members were male and many wanted gay sex but three were female, all lesbians, wanting lesbian sex. I sent them hello's anyway and I was still browsing when one of the women asked if I was available Friday. I answered yes before I noted that Friday was...
A couple of weeks later Jackie walked out of the school gate with her arm around Gwen's shoulders; they were laughing, heads together, as school friends do. They stood around in a group, heads together, moving their weight from foot to foot, swinging their school bags idly as girls tend to when they are together and not in a rush to part company. Gwen was th...
On July 15, 2015 my life was turned upside down. I just didn't know it at the time. Looking back, I was like so many others caught in the middle-class grind with a demanding job, family life, a house in the suburbs, and the hefty mortgage to go with it. It would appear by world standards that I was living the American dream, or so I thought at the time. Wh...
I had to drive across town one Friday to deliver some high-priority files from my precinct to Police Headquarters. For the past two weeks I'd been stuck at a desk, because of a shooting my partner and I had been involved in. It was a totally legitimate shoot—we stopped the perp coming out of a crackhouse and he aimed his gun at us—and it wasn't even me who s...
It was Don Taylor's last day before he began his family leave, and it couldn't end soon enough. It seemed that every time he turned around, his boss and good friend Jason Blackwell was giving him, 'Just one more thing.' He had the program installed into his office computer and the computer at home to allow him access to his work files should he need them, an...
Chapter 01 (Dan Meets Kelly) Being one of the last big summer events before Labor Day, the Chicago Air and Water Show always provided for a fun weekend. Marc, one of Dan's best friends, owned a condo in Bucktown just north of Division Street, and every Saturday of the Air and Water Show, he threw an all-day party. He lived on the top floor, and a stairway f...