Fiction Stories

If you are having a bad day and need a lift, perhaps reading the items under this title will give you a pick up. I hope you enjoy!! Feel free to forward to friends. Be advised the jokes you are enjoying were not created by Jack Spratt but are from many sources, many are from readers. I claim no copy-right to any of them. There are bound to be some repeats, so if you find one just ignore it.

Don lived in his truck. His downtime passion was playing at prospecting for gold. After surviving the adventure with the hijackers, that changed; his rig had been totally destroyed. Thinking back, it appeared the only good thing that happened to Don recently, was George Pratt’s daughters, Jayden, and Sarah, were now his wards, from a dedicated bachelor to a daddy, in what seemed a matter of days. And now there’s more, more daughters that is!!

A 'Reluctant Sir' Story
What happens when a man finds himself with a slave he didn't know he wanted? Joe is an older man, a widower, with a stable life and career. When a favor for a relative nets him a strange young girl as a ward, no one is more shocked than he is when she submits.

What if you are to inherit a business empire on the death of its surviving elderly founder and learn its startup capital was from Nazi war loot? Then you learn the empire's founders obtained that loot by stealing it from the Nazi Party and they kept a portion of what they stole for themselves to atone for the Nazi Party stealing their families' businesses and executing their families. That is Paul Adler's dilemma.

A story in the The Medieval Marine Universe
A former US marine gets transported back in time to medieval England where he has to make allies and then adapt and overcome numerous obstacles. Not only to survive, but to keep his knowledge out of the wrong hands.

A precocious young girl and the nice-guy neighbor have been friends since her family moved in 7 years ago. Now she's older and she's decided that neighbor is going to be her man. A power outage gives her the opportunity to spend a weekend--alone--with him, and she sets out to make her plan happen. And he finds out that she is smart, and funny, and adorable, and loving, and curious, and adventurous--and a bit perverse.

Caroline, recently divorced, estranged from her children and former friends, was lonely. Then her father died and she travelled north to arrange the funeral, sell the house and clear Pop's possessions. These include her father's dream car, a maroon Jaguar bought just before Caroline's mother died and her father's crippling stroke. The car hadn't moved in 30 years, but because it meant so much to Pop, she was loath to scrap it. She smiled as she sat in the driving seat...

Christine was a single Mom who found any talk of technical matters intensely boring. A single unwise click on an unsolicited email would have a profound effect on both her own, and her teenage daughter's lives.

A Christmas Story
Sometimes fond memories are more than others see them to be. Such was my favorite Christmas.