Fiction Stories

The topic is "The End of the Affair." My problem is that everybody from Ovid to Henry Miller has had something to say about that - not to mention a few million folks on this site. So, I took a slightly different interpretation of "the end" here. My hero makes a bad choice. But he has decent instincts and with a little help from an unlikely source he eventually learns how to be a good person. Some of you might find this a bit allegorical. If so, I couldn't possibly comment.

Tragedy struck Mark at a young age, leaving him with a heart full of unspoken words and a future shrouded in uncertainty. Raised by his aunt, he navigated the choppy waters of adolescence and eventually found a semblance of normalcy in a mundane, predictable routine. College, part-time job – even his social life, an endless cycle of bad dates and even worse pickup lines - It wasn’t exciting, but it was safe. Familiar. But fate, it seems, had other plans.

Captain Scarlett, a veteran spaceman, fights to make space safe for commerce and travel. Along with his wife, Colonel Pandora Vermillion, they sweep pirates from the solar system. Captain Scarlett embarks on a brave plan to save the colonies of his native home, Mars. Starved for water, the colonies will die if his plan fails. He engineers a plan that may work, will his plan end in utter failure? Part of the Adventures of Captain Scarlett series.

Halloween 2019
Anne Evans is a Wiccan who works as a nurse in a hospice. Peter Morgan, a coma patient, comes under her care. She senses that he responds to her presence. Her special treatments finally bear fruit (pun intended) in the night of Samhain. Winner of the 2019 Halloween Writing Contest.

In an alternate universe where American society has a well-defined and structured class system, someone still needs to teach the new heir apparent how to behave like royalty. And who better to mentor a royal than a servant?