"Timmy, the hard luck orphan, gets his break"
Summer 1946.It was another hot day. Timmy’s tie was still in his pocket, and his dress shirt was untucked and unbuttoned, with the sleeves rolled up. His bare chest glistened with sweat. This neighborhood of East Los Angeles didn’t help....
"A housewife comforts a heartsick young Marine"
Jasmine looked pityingly across the bar at the poor kid. She cracked open another bottle of beer and pushed it his way. His ID had said he was twenty-three, but she suspected he hadn’t been around the sun a full...
"Elise meets a beautiful stranger on the train to the beach in the rain."
One rainy day, I had decided I wasn't gonna sit at home and wait out the rain. Chicago was amazing in the rain, with the hazy skies and the glistening lights of the city, moving through the wind with the...
"A solo holiday leads to a new life experience"
The heat and humidity were unbearable as I approached the pond hidden behind the resort. So far my first solo vacation to a tropical paradise since the divorce was uneventful and somewhat lonely. The few single women I had encountered...
"Three Sisters + Ancient Temple + Full Moon"
"Are you interested in ancient temples?" she asked.Arthur looked up from his late lunch at the small Welsh country pub outside Pembroke. It was the thirteenth of August. The Summer sun had warmed the afternoon nicely, and the patio table...
"It was all for him and not the watcher."
Sue turned towards the bathroom. Looking back over her shoulder, she ordered Mark to get undressed and into bed. Mark obeyed and waited. On leaving the bathroom, Sue stopped in the doorway. She looked down on Mark’s nude shape, on...
"Was it him or he that watched that awakened her to pleasure?"
Instead of the usual hour, it had taken Mark this Sunday morning only forty minutes to clear the city and reach the open road. It was sunny and promised to become a warm December day. With the window open and...
"I cross paths with a friend at a park."
It was a beautiful, sunny day; not too hot, not too cool. I drove out to one of the more remote county parks to relax by the river for a while. I have an annual pass and didn’t have to...
I'm working the canyon's shadow side, chasing tiny birds. From across, I catch the flash. Binocular glass. I take a peep and see her, leaning against a tree, watching me.Is it the jolt of an unexpected Aphrodite in this time...
I don't like fishing, but I love the woods, so every month we hit our favorite camping spot by the river.Cute couple in the next spot come over with coffee and lend a hand getting us settled. The boys immediately...
