In 1917 Joanna Begg and her family were on a peaceful cruise off San Diego when the yacht broke down. They believed their luck was in when their SOS signal was picked up by a mysterious sailing ship.
How many brothers and sisters have gone through that rite of passage? A lot, I suspect. But with most, it stops there. But circumstances conspire so that Cassie and Shaun see each other again and again as they both get older. Like it's fate, or something...
Lucille was 41, filling her empty nest by volunteering to cater to the needs of young people with disabilities. Kanye was young, male, blind - and black. It was a simple 90 day engagement, helping a blind person deal with those things that really needed sight, somethng a lot easier than some clients she'd had to deal with - or was it? Could she cater to ALL of Kanye's needs? How far could she go before she betrayed the trust the agency placed in her?
While in the Army Peter Billingsley visits a Louisville brothel and experiences a black prostitute who becomes his sexual mentor. After his happy marriage of thirty years ends when his wife dies of cancer, he encounters Sharon Balfour, an elegant black woman, once his college student, who has been harboring a years-long crush on him and which develops into a passionate affair.
A Story in the Maggie May Universe
This is my submission to an invitation from Jake Rivers to write a story about the song Maggie Mae, or Maggie May. Hope you enjoy it.
This is the story of a perfectly normal middle aged bachelor who, quite by accident, discovers a Genie. We discover, along with our hero, what it's like to have a Genie at his beck and call and how owning her changes him, his family and Genie herself.