Jacqueline Kirby thought she knew all there was to know about her friend and protege, Joanna Simon. Only to discover that the younger woman had as many secrets as the characters she created.
In "Bull Durham," Crash Davis expressed his belief in "the soul, the cock, the pussy, the small of a woman's back," and "long, slow, deep, soft, wet kisses that last three days." This story has all of those things. And baseball!
She wants his baby. He wants to get far away from her. Her crippled husband wants him to make babies while he, the husband, watches. Bad guys want to kill him, the US government would not mind if he was dead and the President of the US is an idiot. Otherwise just another day at the office.
A new form of bullying is taking place near schools for emotional handicapped and learning disability kids. It's called 'Tweaking the Freaks'. Officer Ray Bentler is assigned to watch at one such school. His neighborhood favorite Amanda Hill, on the way home, is bothered by a group of bullies. They also push down her Mom, Judy. Ray intervenes and their history together begins.
A Two Ships Passing Story "Heard a bump" is a strange phrase to use to describe an event in a large jet aircraft. You might "feel" bumps during a flight, but you do not "hear" bumps when flying in a safe plane. I looked up instantly and saw the nearest stewardess. Her face had turned white. My fellow passenger asked, "What was that noise... is something wrong?"
She should get up, wash the slick evidence from between her thighs, but her body still hums with the heat he left behind. The scent of sex clings to the air, the sheets, her skin. In the quiet that follows, need lingers. With His Name on My Lips is a story of aftermath, intimacy, and the aching pull between what was and what still burns.
A Story in the Middlebury Chronicles Universe
A single mom and her sixteen year old daughter have reached the end of their rope. They are penniless, unemployed, and a week away from being evicted. It’s a situation of their own making. They are lazy and amoral and now society’s largess is about to run out. So they plan a theft from a man whose house mom once cleaned. He catches them and offers them an alternative to prison. This is a simple little tale about second chances.