When most people met me, they were impressed. I had a doctoral engineering degree with specialties in material science and computer engineering. I’d run my own firm for years while teaching at the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering. I worked out regularly to keep my 40-year-old body in good shape and had my fair share of lovers. I’d been close to marriage on...
Forty-five year old Dawn Jackson delayed completion of her college education until after her children were grown. She was having empty nest syndrome and her husband Ralph suggested she go back to college to get her BA degree in Business. She had her associate degree in business when she met her husband Ralph a man 4 years older than her. She started her las...
"Hello! Welcome to 'Driven to Distraction,' the game show where one lucky contestant could win one million dollars in cash just for answering five simple questions! I'm your host, Alex Truco. Today, we welcome our first contestant, Barbara Allen, from Sogo City Arizona!" The camera pans to the stage entrance where the young, beautiful woman stands, nervousl...
Sabrina swam up from the darkness. Her movements felt slow, her arms and legs heavy as she tried to break the surface. It took her several minutes to realize that her eyes were closed and that she was spread out on a soft mattress. Opening her eyes, she looked around and groaned. "Not again," she muttered, instantly recognizing the familiar suite at Westha...
"The citizens of the great State of Mississippi," Stuart Whitman loved the sound of that phrase each and every time he said it in front of a television camera, "must be certain that the gaming industry they have voted for is run cleanly, fairly, and transparently. Beyond the reach of organized crime, answerable to the people. And as Attorney General, it is m...
BACK TO THE BRICKS The next morning I'd just finished updating my list of which deputies were going where when the Sheriff stepped into my office and closed the door. This was so unusual that I immediately dropped what I was doing and stood up. "What's up?" He took a chair and said, "I've got interesting news about the brickmakers. The state CID director c...
Dr. Rex Whitman walked into the observing room. Lined up against the opposite wall was a desk with a computer, several large monitors, a metal water bottle, a box of tissues and a bottle of lube. Dr. Whitman had made a fortune in the pharmaceutical industry and now was in early retirement in his early forties. He now spent his time, fortune, and genius resea...
Passion In James County X: Badge of Dishonor Chapter thirteen "I don't think there's any reason for me to charge you with any motor vehicle violations, ma'am," Rod Billingham told the woman sitting in the passenger seat of his cruiser. Her name was Rhonda Whitman and she lived in one of the better sections of Jamestown, judging from the address on her dri...
It all started because I needed a place to land after my sister and her husband kicked me out. Lucy put it quite delicately, "Frankly Jezi, Derrick is sick of your lazy shit and wants you off our couch." Then she shoved a wad of crumpled bills into my hand and closed the front door. I had just lost my job the week before as a hostess at Applebee's and had...
Guy smiled, "Have a great time together. I will have Charles bring your car to the portico." With one call on a house phone Charles was summoned and quickly pulled Ana's black 550 CL Mercedes up to the portico. Ana got in the driver's side while Charles held my door. "Ana when you pull out on Gulf Blvd turn right then at the traffic light turn left onto t...