Rough Stories

An older man, who found financial success later in life after enduring years of anguish, grief, and bitterness, unexpectedly meets a stunning, high-end escort at an upscale bar. Neither had sought love for over a decade, their pasts having long since closed that door. Yet, what they had both stopped believing in suddenly seems possible. Two very different worlds collide.

I got my heart broken twice, was the third time the charm?

The future Lady Jessika Thornton-Smythe encounters a female Indian tour group guide in a run down, unusual, back street bar in Pattaya. A meeting that results in three vicious catfights, sex and revenge.

As winter is setting in in northern Virginia, fourteen-year-old runaway Kenny is lured away from under a highway underpass by a money-for-sex offer into the truck of a gardening center crew leader who is missing the servicing of his fourteen-year-old stepson. Short men on his crew, the man gives Kenny a job handling a leaf-blower and introduces him to an interested client. Is this the answer to Kenny’s need to stay out of the winter cold?

Helen is pleasantly surprised to discover that the men sent to install her deck aren't the unattractive louts with plumber's crack that she expected. The chiseled, shirtless young men tempt her all day, and an overheard conversation sparks possibilities. Does she dare?

I ran away from the life I had. Years later, looking back at it told me that I hadn't really lost anything

A Story in the The Anomaly Universe
Surely this is exactly what Beatrice was always meant to be. She had in Paul a loving faithful husband. She had as many other lovers as she might desire. And most of all she was playing a crucial role in the Space Ship Intrepid's quest for the Anomaly. How could it ever be better for her? But Beatrice's moment of glory and the success of the Intrepid's mission is under threat from shadowy and mysterious entities whose very existence has not even been suspected.

Sheriff Gina finds love most unexpectedly as she tracks down two rapist/murderers in the mountains of Colorado.