Slow Stories

Four clueless husbands discover their wives have been unfaithful. Each of them take their own approach to fix the problem. One of them finds a new love.

A Runaway Girl, A Sailboat Passage to Safety, A Love Story

A small town Southern sheriff takes in an African-American woman and her young stepdaughter. Eventually they become a family and when the girl becomes old enough to date, they turn to the sheriff for her first experience.

A Story in the The Criminalization of John and Jane Smith Universe
Life was great until Charlie, the rooster, greeted the sun one morning and started a chain of events that rapidly spiraled out of control.

VORTEX. (1) A mass of whirling fluid. (2) A system viewed as swallowing up those that approach it. A teenaged tearaway starts a chain of events that leads to a vortex.

The bit that JKR left out. This is a departure from my previous stories and may not appeal to those familiar with them. Please read blog for more information

A David's Many Adventures Story
David and Meri are back. No, not just back, but back in time. This is a do over. Sex is minimal and only hinted at and never a focus. This is the story of their lives from the time they come back, to graduation from high school. Who knew that the Master PC program existed back in the early 1980s? Violence is minimal, but there. The Djinni Nekita does not make an appearance, but is mentioned. There is some basis in history and all locations named are real, if not the people.

A Simon and Trudi Story
Simon takes lunch with Vernon, and discovers that what takes place outside the lecture theatre does not impact on the delivered professionalism within. He also goes ahead with arranging something a little different to solve the problem of tedious housework... NB: coded for what is described, not necessarily shown.

A story in the Tech and State Universe
Christopher "Kit" Wainwright is assigned Nichelle, a black woman, as his lab partner. Hailing from an insular small town, he is uncomfortable interacting with her. As he gets to know her, his queasiness about her race dissipates and he begins respecting her. They become at first friends and then lovers. Kit is unsure how his friends and family will accept Nichelle. In the mean time her history-obsessed mother discovers that his and her families crossed paths over a century earlier.