Corey's coming, no more sad stories comingMy midnight-moonlight-morning-glory's coming aren't you girl? And like I told you, when she holds youShe enfolds you in her world. By Harry Chapin (December 7, 1942 -- July 16, 1981) He is missed. * Old John Joseph was a man with two first names. The railroad left him in the station when they took away the train...
WWII was a great time! I know that's a horrible thing to say, but for me it really was. You see I was a typist and never had to shoot a gun after basic training. The year was 1943 and I was a 18 year old clerk stationed in good ol' London. I was billeted with Mrs Shaw, who asked me to call her 'Gwen'. She would call me 'Yank' but always in a sweet way. Ther...
Cast of Characters [Note: Spoiler Alert - this includes updates that may ruin some plot points] Life as a New Hire Impossible gratitude to Nut Ranch who not only made this list - he made it thrice. Only my ineptitude had kept the first two creations from the light. As always, the subject matter is my responsibility. If you like it, it is probably someone...
Tom still wasn't sure if the offer to fuck Hazel whenever he liked was genuine or made in the heat of the moment. Returning from work the next day he collared me going up the stairs. "Hi Tony, I just wanted to say thanks for last night, it was unbelievable, that little wife of yours in so sexy." We went into his flat and over a couple of beers I told him th...
BACKGROUND February 1918: American Raymond J. Earl, codename "Pierre," received special instructions from his Colonel to assume the identity of a French soldier and get closer to a particular French fortress. It was for Earl to find out what kind of weaponry they were stocking and to size up the men's health. He unfortunately became cocky with his positive...
This story is dedicated to my father, a prisoner of the Japanese for four years in WWII. Sadly he died before I ever understood the things that he must have experienced. My lack of understanding no doubt contributed to the estrangement between us, and my inadequate attempts to reconcile prior to his death. As I researched the story, I found many accounts fr...
In the previous story, Uncle George, the Stud, I told of spending time with my favorite uncle and with the help of a bottle of bourbon to aid the conversation hear of his various exploits while on spring break on Jekyll Island, Georgia. Where that story left off was upon his graduation from Dartmouth and subsequent commissioning in the Navy. I had the good f...
I had just got married to a Priest. Hold on, LGBTQ and A fans, I'm a guy and she was a woman. A female priest in a major protestant church. It was her first marriage and my second. I never thought I would marry clergy, but Betty was a very special person. I had explored my sexual boundaries after my divorce, and was ready to settle down and focus my life wit...
The episode with Armand threw a scare into Martin and me. Martin was very tired for the next two days and slept a lot. It was more than a month before I initiated any sexual contact between us again. It was a cool but sunny day in October and Martin was sitting in his wing backed chair looking out the window at the fall colours and the sea with a book in hi...
In 2006 Warren Buffet declared the United States to be at war, no not the so called War on Terrorism or War on Drugs. Instead, he proclaimed to Ben Stein, writer for the New York Times, "There's class warfare alright, but it's my class, the rich class, that's making war, and we're winning." There was hardly a yawn in society, the economy was still in the ill...