Ma/Fa Stories

A Story in the Ol' Blues Eyes - Jake River's Eighth Invitational Universe
A retired and very bored retired ballplayer tries to get away from it all and takes an ocean cruise for fun and profit and finds love… and a reason to return home! Sometimes the old ties to family call you back no how hard you try to escape. A screwy tale of romance.

Is he really too old to find love? Or too ordinary to be attractive to women? Some more sailing and the slow growth of a romance. / (Reviews)

Pete comes home from working on an oil platform after three months. His mother meets him instead of his wife,Betty. Will she be with him when he heads to Texas in six weeks? Hardly! / (Reviews)

A happily married wife and mother of two teenagers is desperate to find a way to get enough money upon which she and her family can survive after her husband's employer goes bankrupt and he loses his high paying job. At the end of her rope she meets and makes a deal with the devil, a loan shark who offers to loan her a large amount of money. It's the unusual terms of the agreement that lead to trouble...and pleasure.

Walter had just about enough of Natalie's constant complaining and miserable attitude. Theirs was a marriage at the breaking point.

Matt's life is good. He's got a posh pad, flash car and a great Job. He worked hard and he's got his rewards. But an invitation to his school's ten-year reunion, brings back memories of a torrid time and a hidden love he did nothing about. His friends persuade him to go against his better judgement and when he gets there his love has a surprise for him. A surprise that will change his life forever. Written in 2004, this is the slightly extended 2005 version. 12 Chapters, 1 a day

Lars isn't quite content with his life, but all that is about to change. With a move and new start in a neighborhood filled with something unexplained, life is going to get a whole lot better.

It's summer again, and this year Saffie needs a bikini to fit her grown-up new breasts. Any dad would pick one up for her, wouldn't he? I mean, just while he's getting trunks for himself. Almost as an afterthought, really. It is a slightly skimpy one it's true, but that doesn't mean his motives are impure; or that he'll be the only one who notices.

For a knight and soldier, death comes with the icy touch of a spell. Only that death does not last as magic brings him back many centuries later. He finds the kingdom once more facing the same enemy and has need of his knowledge and skill. Now he must journey north and find the remaining relics he had searched for in his time.

Musician, song writer and sometime Rock Group member Ged Smith and his writer and literary editor girlfriend Cassie Fenton should be a perfect match for each other, but her history and the ill-will of others combine to destroy them and make their journey a rocky one. This is a long story which unfolds slowly.