D. Fritz: Stories

The Fifty Something Teenager
Thomas was in his fifties when a time-traveling event restarted his life. Now, two years into his do over, Thomas feels like he is living in a middle-aged rut like his previous life. Denise, his girlfriend and presumed fiance, senses his melancholy. When she finds a flier at school advertising a canoe trip, she suggests a spur-of-the-moment weekend away. Their hastily planned weekend was supposed to be a carefree day in a canoe on the river, but it turned into a much more exciting adventure.

Follow Amy as she gets a job at Precious Medals and realizes that the Halloween contest is much more than a competition on who can decorate their cubicle the scariest.

The Fifty Something Teenager
#12 in the Fifty-Something Teenager series. The two-year anniversary of Thomas’s return to the eighties is fast approaching. A year earlier, he made a decision on his one year anniversary that had negative consequences on the people closest to Thomas. After the mysterious visitor at their Halloween party less than a month ago, Denise and Thomas knew that another decision will need to be made, likely with some negative consequences, but neither knew what to expect as the holiday draws closer.

Richard Argonne was a kid on financial aid when he started college. Midway through his senior year he had written an application to find oil buried in the earth with a 90% success rate. By graduation his net worth eclipsed a million dollars. Thirty years later things are going very well. Richard is the founder and CEO of a massive empire that is quickly approaching a trillion dollar evaluation but there is a storm brewing. Turbulent days are ahead for the mogul and his team.

Austin Hilton was living the American Dream – happily married, good job, and a couple of kids, all in a quiet suburban neighborhood. His easy-going lifestyle was disturbed when an unexpected re-org occurred at his company. However, with a new environment comes new opportunities, which shake up both Austin’s work and home life more than he could have ever dreamed.

The Fifty Something Teenager
Fifty Something Teenager, number four. While reading earlier episodes is not required, it is suggested. Thomas Ford is a fifty-something year-old that teleported from the present day to the 1980s and his 18-year old self. In this episode, all of Thomas’s romantic relationships have imploded. He now needs to consider what he does next with his life. He also needs to know whether either spurned woman would take him back.

Peter had learned to live with blue balls soon after he married his wife. Once she got the ring on her finger she lost all interest in sex. He never once cheated on her in person but was very familiar with many of the popular porn sites. After his wife’s latest particularly abrupt rejection of his advances he was tempted by an unexpected muse he met at a local coffee house.

The Fifty Something Teenager
In this sixth episode of the Fifty Something Teenager, Thomas leaves his mom’s house as he moves into a dorm with his best friend Matt to begin his second time through college. Unlike his first go-round, he chooses to go to a local university and not escape to one of the large state universities three hours away from home. At a before-the-semester-starts frat-house bash he crashes with Matt, Thomas is in for quite the surprise.

This story starts with Tony's fortieth birthday, and then follows Tony and his wife, Trisha, for the three months leading up to their anniversary. She has been planning for his big day, plus the following months, for many weeks. Enjoy the journey from the start of Tony's fifth decade through the anniversary with his beloved bride.

The Fifty Something Teenager
Number five in the Fifty Something Teenager series. In this story we follow Thomas’s mom, Sandy, and her boyfriend Eddie. After Thomas helped Eddie complete a huge contract with the school board, Thomas suggested using the money he was to be paid to take his mom on a vacation.