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.
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)
When I get to the bottom I go back to the top of the slide.
Where I stop and I turn and I go for a ride Till I get to the bottom and I see you again.
Like Lennon and McCartney say, life has its ups and downs. Kenny is starting at the bottom.
SSG Hill had been teaching young soldiers how to use the high powered EW systems of the modern Army. Suddenly he was sent to war and had to show that what he was teaching would work. Electronic Warfare in WWIII.
After returning to college in order to qualify for an important promotion, Peter Saunders discovers his wife having an affair with a work colleague. Devastated, but afraid to confront her with the truth, he instead embarks on a relationship with a young student. Torn between both women, he must decide whether to try to salvage his marriage or risk all to pursue a possible future with his new love.
A Glass Balls Story The parallel adventures of Olivia Wright, art historian and sensuous woman, and Dom, the medieval youth, continue. Livy rediscovers a secret of Italian art and deflowers a young boy, while Dom experiments with gay love before finding two old friends.
This Story is Part of Jake's Universe
After 22 years of marriage, things go astray for Noah. A man without vision to see ahead, but highly competent at his work. Cultural pressures in a land he does not know create a current that pulls him along to a place he knows not. But he ends up with a wife and two mistresses! While this story is not specifically attached to the Jake’s Choices Universe, assumes knowledge of life in the Philippines, which I have covered in the Threads Joyfully and with Ganda stories in the Universe.