Slow Stories

Heather's a Bad Girl. Everyone says so. Her father's given up on her after years of her mother's interference. When Mom travels to New York for several weeks of business, and a recently laid off Dad is stuck home with his rebellious teen for the summer, he knew things had to change. There was only one way to deal with girls like Heather. Bad girls get punished. Things were about to change. In a BIG way.

Hollis runs The Emporium, a second- or third- tier antiques shop. His wife is in the state mental hospital suffering from psychosis induced by bad reaction to a prescription drug. Annie is a 10th grade student living in a foster home who Hollis has hired to help at the shop. Events conspire to thrust Hollis and Annie closer together and soon they find themselves lovers. / (Reviews)

A Simon and Trudi Story
Professor Simon Armitage, in his late middle age and recently retired, sits down on a park bench one summer's day to enjoy smoking his pipe and reading his book. Then he meets Trudi, a fourteen year old who asks him to be her private tutor. He agrees, and life is suddenly full of surprises, not the least of which is Trudi's behaviour...

Something had to give. Gerry Saunders hated his job, despite being very good at it. Then, a catastrophic event changed his entire life. How he dealt with his future is the core of this story. / (Reviews)

Molly makes a number of bad decisions and ends up pregnant. No one seems to care except her little brother, who becomes her birth coach... and much much more. / (Reviews)

In the last four years, Ashley Walsh had seen more than her share of soldiers in both blue and gray. So what was it that drew her to a lad in gray half her age.

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