First Stories

A Widows Story
Electives is the second story in the Widows series. Timewise, it overlaps 'Picking up the pieces' by a year, and some of the same characters appear in both stories.

A young man's sexual education at the hand of a bold girl.

When Tom's mother broke her leg all his holiday plans were ruined, nursing his mother was not what this teenager wanted to be doing. Then something happened to improve his situation.

The Bronze Medal winner in the Dulcinea Memorial Festival.
They say that the hotest fires burn the brightest, and burn out the quickest, leaving only wisps of smoke and an unsatisfied feeling of regret for time lost. True? I doubt it.

Halloween 2024
On a band trip to New Orleans he stopped into a hole-in-the-wall shop, where an old woman offered to sell him a little bottle of Love Potion #9. He was a high school student who had a crush on his geometry teacher and, just for fun, at the Halloween dance, he spiked her punch. Except instead of only two drops, as the old woman had instructed him, his nervousness caused him to dump half the bottle. It was the best Halloween night of his life, and October 31st was never the same again.