Fiction Stories

Some stories are written to explain the world. Others are written to remind us what it feels like to live in it. This is not a story about history, or war, or even time—though all of those pass quietly through its pages. It is a story about the small promises we make to ourselves when we are young, and the surprising ways life asks us to keep them. It is about love that grows before it announces itself. About courage that speaks softly.

Only a world war could keep them apart.

This is a sequel to Detoxing, and runs to 31 chapters. The family expands.

I was a widowed thirty-something loner, living by myself in a backwoods cabin, when I witnessed a woman die of a drug overdose in front of me in the supermarket. Then I felt a small hand insert itself into mine.

A Sarah and Greg Story
Do the lust and love fade with age when one finds the right partners? [This story is the end of the Sarah and Greg Series.]

Eighteen year old Ray Harrison is fresh out of high school with plans to attend Kansas State University. Ray's hopes of living in a dorm, joining in all the crazy antics he'd seen in the news about college students having fun, are about to be dashed. He's an only child-his parents are school teachers and very strict in their convictions. They have other plans for Ray. Plans that do not include him living in a college dorm!

At 28 years old, Billy Sherman lost his job, his home, his pickup, his girlfriend, and his pride to the economy. His dad was a 'handy man' all his life and Billy is now taking his dad's tools and starting a new trade. He meets some interesting people along the way. A lot of them are women. Billy has a weakness for women, he's a 'butt man' and he can't resist looking or touching when opportunity comes knocking. Billy becomes a busy man at his new trade.

Romance set against the war in Afghanistan