Slow Stories

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.

Tragedy brings half-siblings together in unexpected ways.

An accident leaves six orphans behind, 3 males and 3 females. The oldest male/female pair of step-siblings are 18. They have to act as parents for the other two M/F pairs of step-siblings, aged 15 and 9. Of necessity, the new parents share the big bedroom, and loving shenanigans follow. Each 15 year old finds an outside partner; new irresistible romantic and sexual feelings can't be denied. More passionate adults become active family members. Active with each other?!

Austin is moving in with his Grandma Montgomery, who he doesn’t know and isn’t sure if she wants him. But he has no choice since his dad has remarried, and his mom is wrapped up in a new love and doesn’t want him to live with her. The only thing that gives him hope is that his grandmother has agreed to allow him to bring his horse and bought him a puppy. The one bright spot is that Austin meets a group of teens who start a group called Club DTF.

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 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)