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.

Sometimes, Faith needs to be spanked. Terry gives her what she needs, but only in role play. He figures he needs some play, as well. So they flip a nickel to see whose game they play.

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.)

"3 women can keep 6 men happy," Gayle says, "and 6 men can keep 3 women even happier." 9 friends live together in a converted farmhouse in Wisconsin. The farmhouse is in a farm community, but The Crew ignore the opinions of their neighbors. Then they decided to have children.

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.