The wealthy and powerful play games with peoples lives, and crush those who stand in the way of what they want. But sometimes, just sometimes, they lose.
Part of 50 Ways to Leave Your Lover
RichardGerald and I wrote this jointly for Bebop and Nora's "50 Ways to Leave your Lover" event. Since one of those options is a bus, we modeled our story on the classic Hollywood 'meet cute' film "It Happened One Night." Which means that we changed the characters, swapped the sexes, radically altered the plot, and wrote a whole new story. But we DID think about the film while we were trashing it. So as the pitchmen would say: It's exactly like the original except on a train and....
A Clan Amir of Berant Story
Gerry Mannheim continues to grow and develop in response to the events around him. These stories show many aspects of his maturing attitudes and responses to those events.
A young woman has an idea of starting a cattle operation in South America. The story is told in typical 'novela' style. All the women are beautiful and smart.The men are handsome, macho, and have big xxxxx. The bad guys are despicable. A love story with just enough sex and violence to make it X-rated. There is also some 'Shaman' magic. I only marked the most important codes.
In a kingdom obsessed with beauty, obedience, and perfect endings, one girl learns how fragile illusions truly are. As the prince scours the land for the owner of a crystal slipper, Cinderella must confront pain, power, and the price of being chosen. This is not the fairy tale you remember.
Heather Mercer was a junior high school teacher whose life was fine until her husband got in debt to a loan shark. The choices were slim. Allow his organs to be sold on the black market, or become a stripper on the weekends at the club the loan shark owned. Oh, yes. And then there was the sex she had to supply her new boss. Could she get out of it all? Who would save her?
A Coldwater County Story Rather than send the man to the state hospital, which is what I should have done, given his suicidal behavior, instead I chose a more self-indulgent course. As the police began to suspect my complicity, I cursed myself for my arrogance.