Romance Stories

She came to him the way wild things do — slowly, carefully, leaving gifts he didn't yet understand. For weeks, Michael found tokens at the edge of his orchard: a bronze feather, smooth stones, berries arranged like offerings. He assumed it was nothing. He was wrong. Missy had been watching the man who cared for broken things. She had kits on the way and winter closing in, and she had chosen him. Now she just had to trust him enough to knock.

Cupid's arrow strikes at Christmas

A story in the Frank and Ali’s Family Universe
Frank and Ali find love - a prequel

a Paul & Paula 21 story
Concerts are back on. So far, they've been doing covers, and the occasional song Michiko writes for them. Eventually, they will want to write songs of their own. And so, what do they write about? Something involving classmates? -- I'm numbering them so that they will be listed in chronological order. Every now and then I might stick something in that happened before something else.

Emma has a thing for her dad. Being brought up by him all on his own it's probably not too surprising. She's a clever girl and she realizes that her dreams are likely to remain just that, but that doesn't stop a girl dreaming of course.

A Jack and Sarah Story
Continuing with the Jack and Sarah series, they are just married and are going on honeymoon. Judging by their experiences on their wedding day and night, who knows what they could get themselves into?

A Mannsborough Chronicle
Marigold Tarr is finally at Harvard, just like she always wanted. More incredibly, she's there with her boyfriend, Thule Roemer. But, now that Thule's out of the revenge business and working on establishing a life for himself, Marigold is afraid he's working himself to death. If only he would sleep instead of worrying about maintaining their relationship, he might make it through this year.

A Life with Chuck and Shirley Story
This is a continuation of our Discovery story. Shirley, my Discovery partner and wife says there are too many neat moments in our life that should be shared. She also says that if I can find time to write weird stories and we together can find time to write stories with a friend of ours that we need to tell more of our (we think) classic lives. We hope it's not too sweet or too cute for the SOL readers.

An unusual story about a lonely father-in-law and his daughter-in-law...