Fiction Stories

The first of a series of five stories about the lives and loves of people who work at a quarry. As usual, I had problems with the codes. No AI was involved in writing this story. The errors are all on me.

A lonely widow is given a miraculous Christmas ornament.

A front man for a realty group has to spend a few weeks setting up a new condo complex. He innocently lunches each day in a local strip mall and one day happens to look up and see the most appealing woman he ever laid eyes on. His fantasy for her plays out in his head, but she sees his hungry eyes and recalls a time when her husband looked at her that way. Can she resist the chance to feel the passion and appreciation for her efforts to keep herself so appealing that her husband neglects?

Former firefighter Marshall O'Neil is sent to a nudist colony, Garradh-Sionnach, in Scotland by his therapist, Inari Kitson, to help him overcome a crippling phobia of revealing his naked body. Garradh-Sionnach turns out to be a sex resort and the vivacious Kath is very keen to help him out of his clothes. They don't have long. A full moon is coming and the dark secret of Garradh-Sionnach is about to be revealed...

A The Machine Story
Jack and Susan find themselves in a world where Jack is accused of killing Professor Blythe, but when Jack is spotted in the town while Jack is in the Police Station, Just who is who? And what is Jack doing about it in records? Will Susan help him, or will it be up to Susan? and why is my head spinning?

An older amateur author picks up a pretty young girl who's hitching a lift. The best that he hopes for is some interesting conversation while he admires the lovely legs that her short skirt is so nicely showing off. But when she finds out that it's erotic stories that he writes, she wants to read some of them, and... well, things get much more interesting after that.

At 54, Emily buys a century home in small-town Ontario to start over. She hires Cole, the skilled 25-year-old contractor who sees the house—and her—clearly. As walls come down, so does her careful restraint. Heat builds through long days of dust and honest work. An age-gap romance of renovation, restraint, and the quiet courage to want more.