"A coming of age story in a time when some things were better and others much worse..."
When Travis got home his mom was putting dinner on the table. Aunt Beatrice had improved enough that she could leave her bed and sit at the table with them. She and his mom talked and didn’t seem to notice...
"A coming of age story in a time when some things were better and others much worse,"
Winterset, Iowa is a small town thirty seven miles southwest of Des Moines. Mary Ann McCree was born and grew up there. After graduating from high school she took a secretarial course so that she could learn shorthand. Her typing...
"If a married man, who loves his wife, meets a male carbon copy of her, what should we expect?"
When I met my wife, I fell in love immediately. I loved the way she looked, the way she thought, her character. I felt her parents had done a great job of raising her. We dated, I met her folks,...
"Few people hitchhike these days. Maybe we should rethink that."
Curtis Cigarette wasn’t his real name, of course. He’d been christened Curtis Christoff but in his late teenage years he was always asking anyone, “Got a cigarette?”At one point someone said “Uh-oh, here comes Curtis Cigarette,” and the name stuck.Curtis...
"Having to share a bed leads to sharing a life."
My grandmother had some definite ideas on the naming of her babies. I guess she thought the name she hung on them would somehow make her wishes come true. She gave them all names that meant handsome or beautiful. She...
"Could two married guys who were never even bi-curious, meet, click and become lovers?"
When Elena was seven years old her mom and dad said they had a big surprise for her: She was going to have a little sister. They didn’t sense it, but Elena wasn’t thrilled with this news. She didn’t want...
"A young veteran stops for the night in the desert town and steps into a life-changing experience"
September in Southern California is often the hottest month of the year, easily outstripping July and August. The sky can be devoid of clouds with the start of the rainy season still a couple of months in the future. The...
"If a stepson gives his stepfather permission, does that make it alright?"
Emma Luca was a middle-aged woman with a sixteen-year-old son and a bad need for a husband, or so she felt. She wanted security for herself and, of course, for her son. She was determined to find a man who...
"Even when faced with dire dangers, unexpectedly beautiful things can happen."
Life in Paris for the past four years had been horrendous under the Nazi occupation. Guy LaSalle and his family had managed to scrape by and remain one of the families the Germans had not prosecuted.However, between the walls of...
"What can happen when a homophobic bully grows up and comes face-to-face with his adversary."
When we’re young we do some really stupid things that we regret for many of our adult years. When I say “we” I’m talking about myself, of course. I don’t like to think that I was a bully, but I’m...