The source material's been done to death, of course. A few have even taken it in the direction this story goes. But none have been terribly faithful to the original, and commercial considerations prevented them from following things to their logical conclusion. My Pleasures Were (To Say The Least) Undignified by Optimizer I've finished preparing the next...
It's a long story, breaking this into two was a consideration, but I leave it to you the reader to decide if I got it right. It sits in Romance because my editor says it belongs here, left to me I would have put it in Novella. My thanks go to SouthPacific for keeping me honest. As always I'm to blame if you find something wrong with the storyline. *******...
*Author's note: I recently received a request to write to a story about someone's mom who is raising three children on her own. I couldn't immediately come up with a storyline for the idea, so I shelved it without replying to the person who sent it. My apologies. When another idea for a story came to me, I recalled his request, and that brought to mind some...
Note: All persons in this novel are fictitious. If you are looking for a great deal of explicit sexual activity, this story is not for you. Those scenes that are included will be evocative rather than just for the sake of sex itself. This story is for your reading pleasure. Its length is undetermined at this time, because I do not know where my mind will tak...
Author's Note: This story contains no explicit sexual content. Miesville, Minnesota December 17, 2019 The light snow crunched under my boots as I stepped out of my truck outside the brown single-story building. "Wiederholt's Supper Club" was in big letters on the left side of the bump-out entrance, "Bar-Lounge-Liquor" on the right. I slammed the door c...
Chapter 11 -- The Producer The informal meeting took place in Dave's spacious living room. Those in attendance consisted of Dave's ten wives, Dave, several other Circle members, and two of the producers of the reality TV series to which Dave and others in the Circle had agreed. Al Berker with Spring Garden Productions took the lead. First off, I want to th...
White Buddha: Portrait of an ESL Teacher in China "Melvin..." "Where was he from?" "Portland, Oregon." "That's weird." "It's a weird place..." "But he hated Portland, like, really, really hated Portland, always shitted on its hipsters, and politically correct, passive aggressive people..." "He certainly was not passive aggressive." "Wasn't he...
Jennifer placed the large glass of lemonade next to Pete and plopped down on the deck chair next to him. He looked over at her and smiled. "Thanks." "Thanks nothing. Finn went nuts again. Some sort of special lemons he flew in from Florida. We've got tons. Drink up." Pete chuckled, raising his glass in appreciation, nonetheless. The sun was setting, and th...
Chapter 31 -- Illinois The plans to stay in Chicago with Chris Reeve and Eva Vega changed. Alice had explained to them in a phone call that there'd been many changes in Circle attendance Things changed further as she started the journey with the others from outside of Madison, Wisconsin. While the Convention of the Circle Fan Club that Chris and Eva had ar...
Chapter 11 End of the world or not, Kris's pleasurable morning exertions before and during his shower with Stacey had him feeling relaxed and in a good mood. Seeing Aide in a real flesh and blood body had been a bit of a shock, but a pleasant one. It wasn't as if she was hard on his eyes. Stacey stayed with him after they finished breakfast and he went to t...