In this completed novella, Joe is a submarnie sailor who is left behind on a patrol to attend school. He and a friend volunteer to manage the wives' softball team. During the season Joe and Kevin get drawn into the lives of the players in ways they never imagined. The scene is Hawaii in the early 1970s and I lead you through the beauty and the dirt with plenty of philosophy and fucking.
This Story is Part of Jake's Universe
How a man who was too old to marry again ended up with a wife and six mistresses and avoided prison. A journal of my later years as edited and corrected from time to time. Of a good man (we hope) and the women and girls who turned his world inside out.
Meeting in church two young couples become friends and establish a swinging relationship. While looking for an apartment that will make their relationship sustainable, they meet a widow who was involved in a swinging relationship with one of the wives' parents (See All for One and One for All). On their third Christmas, the couples visit the wife's parents where they pursue a familial swap. Before the holiday is over the widow joins the couples and the parents in a swapping party.
A young executive is sent to San Francisco for training. At the end of her trip, she goes to the hotel bar for the first time, and discovers that her entire world is about to change. (In the style of Laura Lynn Davis)
A Story in the The Anomaly Universe
Surely this is exactly what Beatrice was always meant to be. She had in Paul a loving faithful husband. She had as many other lovers as she might desire. And most of all she was playing a crucial role in the Space Ship Intrepid's quest for the Anomaly. How could it ever be better for her? But Beatrice's moment of glory and the success of the Intrepid's mission is under threat from shadowy and mysterious entities whose very existence has not even been suspected.