The real story of Orville Summinski begins in the California gold fields, but does not stay there for long. His family moves to Los Angeles and he winds up in the Mexican beer business. Through a mixture of luck and skill, he gains the support of his Mexican employer, marries a Mexican heiress, and becomes a Mexican hidalgo. How's that for a boy born in the slums of New York City? 8 Chapters.
A Alison and Jos Story Part of the Life story universe
This story is a romance about rediscovery and sailing away into the sunset. It's something that I've been working on for the past year, a longish tale in two parts. The first part, the introduction, was to be a romantic rediscovery of lost love, introducing the main characters. The second, loss, and anguish on the high seas. Both parts have been submitted together
A story in the Stop Watch Universe
A power that is too good to be true becomes a corrupting influence on a man and leads him into temptations he'd never thought possible.
Land of Cotton - The story of a farm family in the Mississippi Delta - owners and operators a huge cotton farm. Southern nights are hot and humid in Mississippi, and things get pretty damn hot in the big 'Cotton Land Plantation' home too... even at school and the small town of Cottondale, Mississippi.
A A Wifes tale Story Part of the Life story universe
This is a long and convoluted story of a naive talented young artist, a marriage under attack and a husband's response to a predatory older world-wise man. It charts the attempted seduction of the wife. It builds up slowly. The original version of this story was edited by Romantic1. Blackrandl1958 was kind enough to edit this revised version. A big thank you to both of you.
For Halloween: By long custom, Siberian Prince Mikhail Melikov has been accorded the privilege of being offered a fourteen-year-old boy for his permanent service on All Hallows' Eve from one of the towns, in succession, in his nineteenth-century Russian princedom. Prince Melikov has received this privilege for centuries. The young, to-the-manor-born Alexei is this year's offering and Prince Melikov has come to take delivery.
A story in the Stories from the Hearth Universe
Imagine, you are 87 years old and it is literally your last night on Earth - non-negotiable. You have one opportunity to resolve one issue before you die. All of your family and all of your friends are dead. There is only one other person you care about and she is 60 years younger than you and has no idea that you love her. Oh, did I mention the Norse Goddess of Death is involved?