A Painting Meagan Story The second story of the painting Meagan series. Meagan starts posing nude with Peter. Peter is happy just as Debbie predicted he would be. Meagan claims not to be happy, but she never threatens not to pose. Debbie is thrilled beyond belief to be painting both her models nude together. Of course it's too good to last.
Driving home from a funeral, Hal stops to get gas, sees his muffler needs attention, decides to give blood while waiting for the repairs, and meets a shy, lovely girl perhaps half his age who is making her first blood donation.
A mysterious vintage Leica begins delivering photographs Alex never took—intimate moments with a woman he hasn’t met. Each image pulls him deeper into the city’s shadows and toward Maya, a poet with secrets of her own. As the camera reveals glimpses of a perfect future, Alex must choose: follow the vision—or step out of the frame and into something real. A story about love, fate, and a life unframed. This is the draft prior to final edit, which reduced it from 6,500 words to 1,700.
A story about a pair of fraternal twins who live out in the sticks and become very close growing up. A new kid moves in near them and Kathy suddenly has a new friend to play with and Mike gets jealous when he finds out how they play together. Mike will do anything for Kathy, anything at all, but telling the new girl their secret? That takes some thinking about: And the new girl has a terrible secret of her own.
A Dulcie Story Robert is a shy nerd, living alone in the house where he grew up after both parents died in the Pandemic. Not especially religious, he went to the Midnight service one Christmas, did something quite out of character, and met Callie McPherson. I am intending to post a chapter a week, but may run out of material!
In divided Cold War Europe, a West Berlin-based American journalist and a dissident Czech translator risk everything to communicate across the Iron Curtain. As secret corridors open and collapse, their emerging love collides with surveillance, betrayal, and state power. When a daring escape fails, they must decide: retreat to safety — or defy the system tightening around them.
Pregnancy changes a woman. That's no gem of wisdom, in and of itself, but pregnancy also changes the way a man perceives a woman. When a man sees a pregnant woman, he can't help but reflect on the proof that she is, or at least has been, sexually active. And really KNOWING a woman has been sexually active can impact the way a man looks at a woman. Sometimes that goes for the woman's father too. / (Reviews)
After my accident, I couldn't muster enough emotion to care about anything. I didn't realize it but I was suffering from a depression. It eventually even affected my marriage. Here's how I managed to break out of It and make my life better.