A story in the The Brokervrse
Gifts are given usually with love. They are also no different than being careful with what you wish for. But can something so innocent become a nightmare?
A single man my age, never knows when his next life changing event will come along. Sometimes it's on a man before his brain can get a handle on it. This is a modern day western about a man who meets a woman 10 years younger...
She loved him, but she loved her social status more, betraying him so badly that he ended up homeless and penniless. Now she wants to betray him further by giving him cash to sell his children to her new husband. But all is not as it seems.
Working as a missionary with a nearly untouched tribe, she didn't want to undermine their culture. But as an unmarried woman, she was expected to join the 4 yearly marriage ceremony, and that posed a problem.
Jack has been betrayed, his heart shattered. Can a chance encounter in a fast food restaurant help him find love again? Written for Girl Friday's June 2004 "Fresh Start" Story Fest. (This story was nominated as "Short Story of the Year," "Best Short Story by a New Author, and "Best Heterosexual Story" for the 2004 Golden Clitoride Awards.)