Charlie invented a time machine, but that’s not really what this book is about. It’s about love and relationships, and retrospection, and tamales, and cute girls, and love. Did I mention love? Join Charlie and his girlfriends in a coming-together feel-good story.
The Stanos family became wealthy Greek shipping merchants in the early 19th century. Their ships sailed throughout the Mediterranean to numerous ports exporting Greek olive oils, cheeses and cotton. In return, their ships arrived full of exotic goods; amongst them were frankincense, myrrh and silk from the Arab world and beyond. The shipping empire was at its height when a random set of events beyond their control brought it crashing down, leaving only an aged grandfather.
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.
Mike is 18 when his mother asks him to spend the summer with Aunt Leia. She is not much older—beautiful, blonde, and alone while her husband works far away. At first, it seems like a normal holiday: a big house, a swimming pool, and simple garden work. But soon, small moments between them start to feel different. A smile, a touch, or the way her dress falls open makes Mike’s heart race. He knows it is wrong, but he cannot stop thinking about her....
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.
Charlie was a good kid and a good student who put his family first. A simple question changed his life forever. A simple question asked by one of the school's prettiest and most popular girls... and her friends. Oh, my, what is a boy to do?
Very short, partly cloudy little story that might connect with you if you have trouble putting yourself out there because you think no one might buy what you're selling. No sex. But! There is a cat. So maybe there could be some sunshine after all (;