Troy never realized just how frustrated he was until he met his kid's new babysitter, Sarah. Tempted and teased, Troy found excuses to take his wife out just to call Sarah in for a job. But one night--Sarah needed a ride home and Troy got a wicked idea. After all---no one knows what happens on the side of the road.
Udo, a fourteen-year-old German boy, is taken in by his aunt and uncle when his parents die in an airplane accident early in the summer. It is a house where his uncle is dying and his aunt is absorbed in that. It is too late in the summer for Udo to enroll in summer activities in Munich, and his aunt and uncle have no children of their own. Udo, lonely, turns to Herr Klein, suffering a loneliness of his own, who Udo has met in the park, and the summer unfolds from there.
My sudden trip to Colombia was prompted by a misunderstanding between my Puerto Rican friends and the Cuban wise guys who ran things down in Little Havana. Now I was stuck to Rosita like glue and loving every minute of it.
A story in the Tapestry Universe
We begin this chapter on John's 19th birthday. He has just made the worst mistake of his life and he'll feel the consequences of it. From his lowest point with gravity bearing down upon him can even the wind hold him up? Can he live with his own guilt and grief? How does he keep from breaking when he can't find the cold to deaden his emotions?
A mid-twenties former male model American is sent by a New York/Milan fashion house to Hanoi, Vietnam, to open a factory producing fabrics to pass off as expensive material for fashion house designs. He's frustrated by the bureaucratic runaround he gets in the old, Asian city he hates until he connects with a fetish for fourteen-year-old boys he'd enjoyed in Milan.