A naval electronics rating got zapped by a lightning bolt while in a compromising position. This is his story of coping with success and failure come hell or high water.
A story in WriterMick's The Cheaters Universe
A quick flash story from my twisted little mind. This is what happens when I have too much on my mind with too many stories and I need something to burst the dam.
High school students Mark and Lisa, on opposite coasts of the USA, discover they read each other's minds, whether they want to or not -- but never at the same time. The inability to keep secrets causes tension. Their explorations include the subject which is never far from a teen's mind. Complications and different forms of mind-reading appear when they take real sexual partners. But they are inevitably drawn to each other in real life.
We were new constables sent to the far heliopause station. Those we replaced were suspected of being crooked. My partner looked younger than me and was very pretty. She was also a former joy girl and a very good constable. From weapon and drug smugglers to slavers it was our job to find and bring them to justice.
Lauren is shocked to discover her son, Nico, overhears her brief indiscretion with the college friend he brought home for a visit. But her shock becomes something else entirely when Nico decides to make her his own.
At almost 19 years old, Tina believes she is too old to babysit. But when her younger sister gets ill, she fills in for her and has the adventure of her life.
A father, me, and son, Barney, have to get across to daughter/sister, Midge, the dangers awaiting young girls when they want to start dating. Their warnings must be effective, because young Midge never does go out with the young man she originally fancied, preferring to stay home, where Barney and I drive home the lesson - time after time. You could say, she gets the point.
Six days in May, 2001, in the lives of the crew and families of the CSS (Confederate States Ship) Robert E. Lee, SSN 507. "Wives to love, children to cherish, and a future to plan and build. What more could a man desire? Life is good."
Two sister Wayne State juniors and I were shocked when a sister dorm-resident was arrested for prostitution. Especially when she could have crossed into Canada a few miles away where the practice was legal. Then curiosity got the better of us.Now married and posted in Germany with her husband, our heroine and another American girl screw up their courage to explore pin money opportunities in the country's thriving prostitution industry.