Rebecca was a repressed teenager who became the perfect preacher's wife for 15 years. But dissatisfaction with her uneventful life leads her into adventures on a nude beach in Greece, to jobs in the African bush -- no pun intended -- to Bangkok, the sex capital of the world, and to experiments with group sex and brotherly love.
Accomplished English Knight is forced to kill the Earl he serves when the Earl betrays the King to whom they both swore their oaths of allegiance. This is complicated by the fact that the Earl is a close friend of the Knight. This leaves the Knight unsettled, unable to return to the land of his birth, where he would have to face the Earl's wife. Join him as he sets out across Europe searching for an elusive inner peace, as well as a cause to pledge himself to, and maybe even love along the way.
When the world was new the First Man looked upon the First Woman and saw that she was fair. The world was barren and without life and he longed for beauty around him to equal her own. He called to the woman and asked her to lie with him that she might bear him children to cultivate the earth. But she laughed and ran away... He chased her through the long days and nights until at last he caught her, and piercing her with his fleshy spear, planted the first child in her belly.
Gordon and Kelsey must fight their feelings or risk it all when the teacher and student fall in love in the Lincoln High music room. No matter the choice, both lives will be changed forever.
If you read 'Writers Notebook', you'll see the ties. Neither tale needs the other, however. Writers_Forum is through the eyes if another English teacher, some time ago. I rather enjoyed envisioning how things might seem to someone with different issues. I want readers who enjoy language enough to, as they say, "get it". We're a much smaller sorority than those who just "do it", the mid school verb of choice.