CHAPTER 6-IDENTITY *** PLEASE DON'T FORGET TO VOTE AND COMMENT. I HOPE YOU LIKE IT.*** "Noel, your mom is on the line." Sandy called Noel holding the phone. Noel picked the phone up and said-"Christine, how are you?" "Noel, I am your mother please call me 'mom' just once. I have been waiting for hearing it from you for the last two years." Christine ans...
This is the continuation of the story of Corporal Jake Rogers and Pat Williams two single parents in jobs that quite often overlap. I deliberately cut short the description of Pat's interview with Ginny as I wouldn't cater to any reader who would get pleasure from that, plus I have no intentions of getting involved with child pornography. Parts one and two a...
Again, props to OhPossum for editing. I still claim any mistakes that may remain. This is the sequel to Both Shall Live, and if you have questions that are raised by it, feel free to read that one first. As always, comments and voting are welcome. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ In the summer leading up to our wedding, I started to realize a littl...
Saffy stood at the bedroom window watching the last few rays of sunshine as darkness began to fall. She sipped the wine in her hand and thought of the evening ahead. She had spoiled Tom over the last few days, taking him to places that had only previously existed in his mind. She was conscious that she had been a little too selfless with him; too ready to f...
God bless middleclass Americans because no one else will. * The consequences of this recession, soon to be depression, living life as an American citizen, God, baseball, and apple pie are replaced by unemployment, homelessness, and despair. When God doesn't answer our prayers, when Americans can no longer afford to go to a baseball game, when apple pie is...
What if my government lied to me and all of us...again? "Happy Earth Day Everyone!" Happy Earth Day? Wait, hold on, not so fast. Stop! Deflate the balloons. Cancel the caterer. Return all the bottled water. Stop the music. Stop marching. Disband the parade. Everyone go home. "Hey, I see you trying to hide with that tuba. Go home. And you! Stop banging tha...
Thanks to all who leave meaningful feedback. I enjoy emailing with you. Bum Phillips, former NFL head coach, on why he always took his wife to away games 'Because she's too ugly to kiss goodbye.' + + + + My name is Sallie. All through high school, and college, I had to endure the 'as long as I have a paper bag' insults. Your choices of boys, and then men,...
**** Warning: this chapter contains graphic violence. Please skip to C4 if not your thing. **** * The man, still smiling and holding the whip just watches me lying on the floor sobbing for a moment. As I try to stop crying, I remind myself that I have to be very smart in order to get through this night. He's rented me for only one night. I can do this. I...
We had all gone into town, the editor and all the other reporters, for lunch and were coming back to the paper. As we pulled in front of the building, the composing room staffers were leaving for lunch, their contribution to putting out the paper having been done about an hour or so after ours. With the obsolescence of Linotype operators and compositors and...
2011. Bremmerhoffen, Germany. Thunderhaus Metal Festival. The German people are known for basically three things... Nazi's, Volkswagons and a thriving Metal scene. If I was to add a fourth it would be dirty blondes. These two girls have just cornered me while I was listening to Thunder, an eighties and ninties hard rock band, backstage. They look about ni...