A Take Me Out to the Ballgame Story Sam was a rookie pitcher for the Orioles. He was 12th man on a twelve-man staff, but he was holding on. Now, he was to have a Japanese roommate who knew no English. The new guy was also a pitcher: A starter, more experienced and more highly regarded than Sam. But there would be more than just language barriers. And then there was Amy...
This is a love story, not a stroke story. If that's what you are looking for you should probably go somewhere else. This is the story of John, his father and his father's lover and how the lover and John react after the tragic death of his father.
An Uncle Bob Story His niece's boyfriend broke up with her because she wouldn't let him get too intimate. Her Uncle Bob had always been a good shoulder to cry on and she got the chance to do just that. She also got the chance to find out just what her ex-boyfriend had wanted to do with her. And she could do that with a man she trusted and loved.
Matt discovers his loving fiancée has a compulsion to be with other men. After several hiccups in their fiery romance, he must decide whether to break-up with his soul mate and the love of his life, or adjust to her flagrant behavior. He analyzes, talks to others, interacts with other women, and experiments, as his thinking evolves in a thought-provoking paradigm shift on their relationship. Much graphic sex toward end of story. Heavy rewrite of old story.
A happily married wife and mother of two teenagers is desperate to find a way to get enough money upon which she and her family can survive after her husband's employer goes bankrupt and he loses his high paying job. At the end of her rope she meets and makes a deal with the devil, a loan shark who offers to loan her a large amount of money. It's the unusual terms of the agreement that lead to trouble...and pleasure.
This Story is Part of Jake's Universe
After 22 years of marriage, things go astray for Noah. A man without vision to see ahead, but highly competent at his work. Cultural pressures in a land he does not know create a current that pulls him along to a place he knows not. But he ends up with a wife and two mistresses! While this story is not specifically attached to the Jake’s Choices Universe, assumes knowledge of life in the Philippines, which I have covered in the Threads Joyfully and with Ganda stories in the Universe.
After returning to college in order to qualify for an important promotion, Peter Saunders discovers his wife having an affair with a work colleague. Devastated, but afraid to confront her with the truth, he instead embarks on a relationship with a young student. Torn between both women, he must decide whether to try to salvage his marriage or risk all to pursue a possible future with his new love.