Dark tale of a man when his wife decides that she can have wholesale affairs and he won't divorce her because of the children, and his fight to maintain his dignity / (Reviews)
Can age or social standing deter true love? Read these three short stories and tell me what you think. “Smoking with Miss Franks”: a teacher-student romance. “The Woman Next Door.” She’s divorced, older, and Bill is hopelessly in love. “The Gardener” He’s blue collar, she’s upper crust. (Additional codes are below the story title.)
A young woman's parents are killed in an accident on the day she graduates from college. As she goes through their belongings later she finds that she didn't know her parents quite as well as she thought she did.
Bobby was flying the red-eye from Tampa to San Diego. On the first leg, which stopped in Houston he was the only passenger in First Class. He had the stew all to himself. She had plans, which ultimately ended in both joining the Mile High Club. The story is true; unfortunately this is the real ending.
Joe has a kid come to work in his auto repair shop. The kid looks just like him. Tracing the kid's mother takes on various ramification, some with heartbreak and disappointments. Much of it involving the second generation. Things seem to work out for everyone.