Romance Stories

A teenager's painful rejection creates an opportunity for instruction and an increasing connection with his mother. Note - Approximately 25% AI generated.

An innocent, young newspaper reporter goes to interview a hardened military retiree. She gets the interview she had wanted, but in the process finds out what she really wanted was a new life.

This is a stand-alone story about Vivian Hannity, who appears in the Paradise Theater serial as Miranda's roommate. In this story, she is six years younger than she was in the previous work. I am also writing another story about Vivian and Miranda, which takes place in the summer of 1977, about a month before Paul appears on the scene. Any views that the main character holds about the Catholic Church are to be seen as hers alone.

Every 17 years like clockwork hordes of cicadas show up. Quentin and MaryAnne have a baby pear tree, and if they don't protect it, the cicadas will ruin it. Quentin buys yards of black mesh to drape over the tree, but before draping the tree, he and MaryAnne decide to test it on themselves. Illustrated.

Big sister, Little brother. They have a changing relationship.

A man with a broken heart and a woman with a wounded soul find happiness for the first time in their lives.

A boy and girl go Trick or Treating after a confrontation with their Dad. Afterward in a cemetery they realize the treat has just begun.

Gunther isn't getting any younger but he still has the energy to satisfy Santa's favorite daughter, Candy Claus in a secret relationship. Roland from Rutland has a different take on the situation and makes his move to get a lot closer without being banished from the North Pole.