A Middletown story
Callie Petersen is a hopeless romantic, devouring romance novels and watching every rom-com she could find. But a traumatic experience shook her to the core, forcing her to confront the painful truth: real-life love isn't like the movies. * This a revised version of the original I made some minor, but important changes *
There Was This Girl - The Universe of Romance in Quick Time
All he wanted to do was get the network job finished, but the customer’s daughter wound up doing much more for him than he could have imagined at the time. One never knows what might come up from the past and change your life forever. Charlie ran into Billi again after several years and the result was more than phenomenal. Charlie’s dad told Billi’s dad to keep her away from him when they were kids. Didn’t work. Oh, shucks.
In need of a ride back to her hometown, a songbird reaches out and finds not only a ride, but a really nice man, and then a bit later, a love so strong it withstands the tests of time and addition, or multiplication, or... Anyway, Charlie was able to help, so he did, then the songbird filled his life with music, and love, and… Let’s just say she added ‘lots of love’. He was introduced to the music world, complete with singers and a lot of the people that made the singers keep singing.
Bobby thought he was just going next door to help Mrs. Pastrianni change a light bulb. He held the ladder while she climbed and reached to get the light bulb. When she did, it was obvious she wasn't wearing panties. Mrs. Pastrianni was fifteen years older than Bobby. Not only that, she was white and Bobby was black. There was no way she did that on purpose, right? Suddenly, the fantasies he'd had about Mrs. Pastrianni were coming true. Then his sister caught them... and she wanted to join in.
Halloween 2024
On a band trip to New Orleans he stopped into a hole-in-the-wall shop, where an old woman offered to sell him a little bottle of Love Potion #9. He was a high school student who had a crush on his geometry teacher and, just for fun, at the Halloween dance, he spiked her punch. Except instead of only two drops, as the old woman had instructed him, his nervousness caused him to dump half the bottle. It was the best Halloween night of his life, and October 31st was never the same again.
A globe-spanning inter-cultural love story about three refugees from different backgrounds whose lives collide, and the friendships, romances, and found family they build along the way. Heartbreak, healing, and hope intertwine as they create a new life, and a future worth fighting for. The story is written in rotating first person POV.
As the owner of a flourishing construction business, Roy Burke had little time to look for a wife. So his secretary and mother decided to take matters into their own hands. No-one foresaw the chaos that would ensue.