"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...
"A mundane train trip can become an unexpected, never-to-be-forgotten adventure."
Natives of the west coast usually have a right to be smug about their weather. The climate is mild with snow usually falling only in the mountains, the unbearable heat confined to the deserts, an ocean breeze caressing the coast,...
"This story first appeared in my ebook "In My Brother's Arms" but I'd like to share it here."
Kamil and Karim had been blessed many times over. They were tall and handsome with fit, well-formed bodies. Kamil, who was twenty-four and a student at the university, had a beautiful girlfriend who he planned to marry upon graduation. Karim...