"Daniel finds out he may have married too quick as he starts preparing himself for his second world championships."
Marrying a seventeen-year-old girl may not be the best of ideas. Zabel would have been fine, I knew this. Because of her untimely demise, I would spend the rest of my life wondering what sex would have been like with...
"Lucy finds a new Oliver to play with"
San Francisco, October 31st. 1941.Just when it seemed that the night had been a waste of time, HE walked into the club. The hour was close to midnight as Lucy stubbed out her seventh cigarette of the evening and put...
"Sadistic widow demands gratification"
San Francisco, 1940.There was no question it was her. At first glance, I thought her to be no more than thirty-five, but the more I looked the more uncertain I was. One sure thing was that she was all woman....
"A young WW2 veteran and athlete has everything going for him, but Fate is just around the corner."
A man who’s been to war must learn to make peace with the mirror.A 6'1" tall man stood in front of an oak-framed mirror and a too-low wash basin with a brass cross-handle faucet. The young man was using a...
"The car: a 1946 Packard Clipper."
My favorite uncle was my father’s younger brother, Henry D’Amato, or Uncle Hank as we called him. When I reached college age in the 1970s, he had a successful fruit wholesaling business in the Bronx Terminal Market. By then he...