“The bush leaguer’s here, I see.” Phil smirked until I retorted, “Yep, hilt-deep in more bush than Michael Jordan.”“Liar as well as a piker.”“The word is spiker, as in what I do to your…oh, never mind. You’re too young.”Phil had...
Love Stories
Jungle Love, Chapter 1
"An expedition from Boston university is seeking the legendary city of Choque Cota"
It’s 1880 and America is still recovering from its Civil War and trying to come back together as a country. In an effort to help unite the country once more and rally the nation to one purpose, Boston University decided...
Memorable
"The time away from the things of man are truly memorable"
“EEEEEEEE!!!! It is beautiful,” She squealed with delight when the door swung open. He stepped back, placed his hand on the small of her back as she clapped and hopped through the doorway.Her hands fell to her side as she...
The Magic of Winter
"Paul and Meredith get closer."
Meredith Daulton was running around her house yelling. They’d been given the evacuation order a few minutes ago. The Ranch wildfire was coming and they had twenty minutes to get out.Paul Caruso was packing both the car with computers, legal...
Words hurt, but a knife wounds with the sharper pain.He had admired the Russian Sami people for creating two hundred words to describe snow and ice. That eloquence used to impress; less so now her lexicon of inadequacy had grown...
It was her Scots accent, always the accent, that brought his heart out of its pits of sorrow. That and the passionate way Elspeth gently corrected him when he called it a Scottish accent. "I'd prefer Scots if you don't mind, Pops. I'll grant you...
The Passed Note
"Will love have a second chance to bloom?"
Ten years earlier… I plucked up my courage and stepped in front of Alison as we filed out of the Year Nine Civics class on the last day of term before the winter holidays. In my hand was a handwritten note, folded...
High School Reunion Hook-up
"Meeting a new friend at my high school reunion"
After graduating from high school, life goes on. You’re an adult now. It’s no longer fun and games. Some people work, others go back to school and others get married. I did work and school. I went to a local...
The Last Chance – Part 3 – The Rapture of France
"Robert Proposes and Jan hesitates."
Through my mind race the images of us standing chest-deep in the sea and me asking Jan to marry me. I can’t help but smile at the hilarity of the situation. Jan, standing naked in front of me and of...
E121: Finally
"It happens"
Emma stirs awake on Sunday morning somewhat early and is surprised to see that Donald is not there. Then she hears him opening the bedroom door and coming in. What follows is almost an identical repeat of the first morning she...