Since the beginning of recorded history mankind has believed that there is another level of existence, or other realities, or worlds. What if humans could even for a brief moment see into one of those realities? Then imagine that this experience effected them so much that they created a entire religion or belief structure around that vision.
A very straight and conservative type guy, a divorcee overhears some other guys discussing a wager. The subject of which is, the seduction of a young married woman. Our hero decides to intervene and frustrate the gamblers plans. During the following chapters the hero's whole outlook on life changes somewhat and by the end of the tale he's living a very unconventional and altogether different lifestyle.
An Almost Like a Song Story (1) The title is from a 1970's C. W. McCall song. Part of a series based on song titles. A man traveling alone gets caught in a blizzard and finds something he doesn't expect.
They had both had a difficult recent past, both Mike and Tracy. He'd gotten left at the altar and Tracy had lost her job and had to scrape by to make enough for her and her lovely daughter, Ramona, to live on. It was then, on the day that she was delivering fliers from door to door, that he made a decision that seemed silly but worked out, with her, to be a great romance.
Linnea's been depressed and withdrawn ever since her divorce was finalized. When the opportunity to feel young again arises, she takes it. Before the night is over, it may leave her feeling much younger than she expected.