Uther Pendragon: Stories

Three stories of related people come to a conclusion during the fireworks on the 4th of July.

These stories are united by style, not themes. They are all-dialogue stories -- occasionally the sound of kisses is added. Their titles each start with a different letter.

David Blake was a theology professor. Jen was his student, so she was hands-off. Jen, too, felt she had outgrown crushes long ago. But neither could quite forget.

George Foster is a student of Ethnology. Sylvia is a high-school teacher.

Can 2 single parents find love, or privacy, or even time?

Every woman has a first time. Much later, her daughter does as well.

Four different stories whose titles all sound the same.

Bill Pierce is a conservative businessman; Carolyn Nolan is a liberal economics grad student. They agree that the sun rises in the east -- not on much else.

Craig liked Sandy; Sandy liked Craig. If only that was all it took.

He's a lawyer, an Assistant States Attorney prosecuting traffic cases.

English has 3 tenses in the Subjunctive mode, only 1 in the imperative mode, and e8 in the indicative mode. Despite this wealth, I – like most writers – usually restrict myself to 2 tenses, present and past (indicative). This is a group of stories that I have written in other tenses. (Indicative mode unless otherwise noted.)

Andy Trainor is a bright, serious guy. Many call him a nerd. Marilyn Grant is a small girl with big ambitions.

Bruce Walters is a bad-boy poet and a professor of English. Connie Steffano figures that her experience with her father, Andre, was enough dealing with bad-boy poets for her lifetime.

Tanya is a math instructor who is often taken for a teen because of her height. Phil is a physics student.