"Hope is supplanted by unconscionable selfishness."
PART 10 OF 15CHAPTER 28 “Well, Missus Gardner, yes that is a fact. I have a proposition for you,” said Owen Cord.“A proposition. You see my burns Mister Cord. You’re a good looking guy, and you want to proposition someone who...
"Stunning disaster and recuperation..."
CHAPTER 19 My call to Jeff was one he expected. I’d kinda given him a heads up at the funeral. It was just tentative at the time, but now I was beginning to get my act to together and making some...
"Children can often be the deciding factor in life."
PART 8 OF 15 --- CHAPTER 22I wheeled myself across the floor waiting for I knew not what. Was I being unreasonable? I supposed that on any number of levels I was. But, all of that being true, it was...
"Sometimes it is necessary to treat with the bad guys."
CHAPTER 16Well I was pretty sure that this time I’d be left alone at least for a while. I was more than persuaded that I’d likely be getting Christmas cards from Abigail, but those would be returned unopened for sure....
"I catch my wife fucking a friend"
One rather chilly night during the early spring I was in my bedroom asleep when I awoke in a rush from a very lucid dream. I was initially in a panic, probably still feeling emotions from whatever the dream was about.I rolled...
"Never thought this would happen, but it did. . ."
Rachel and Jim moved in across the street from us about six months ago and for the first several months we never saw them or even knew who they were. We only knew we had new neighbors.As warmer weather blossomed...
"“Stab the body and it heals, but injure the heart and the wound lasts a lifetime.”"
CHAPTER 13In spite of her dubiosity, she had seemed to relax at my willingness to talk and visit her place in order to see the children.“Good, I’ll call first, okay?” she said, “let you know that I’m coming.”“Uh-I don’t have...
"Nick meets a seductive young woman at the bar determined to have him."
He wasn't quite sure how he found himself in the situation he was currently in, sitting across the living room from a stunning young woman. They had flirted in the bar and back then it was okay because that's as...
"To trust or not to trust "that" was the question."
CHAPTER 10Her tears ran riot for the entire hundred miles back to Phoenix. Her husband would be out of town for the next two days—a sudden business something or other—but he was on the cell and ready to join her...
"After years of fantasizing about my sister-in-law, the stars align and it finally happens."
One spring afternoon, I dropped by my sister-in-law Dianne’s house to drop off several items while out and about. She was home alone doing various things around the house. As is often the case, we sat down in the living...