Slow Stories

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...

A Story in the Walnut Street Universe
A short romantic-erotic fantasy: Lynne is a single mom in her thirties. After a bad day at the office, a colleague suggests they head over to an upscale hotel, sit in the bar and get picked up. Since Lynne's twins are staying with their father, she agrees. Her friend stiffs her due to an emergency; however Lynne meets a young salesman and they hit it off, engage in torrid sex and spend the night together.

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)

Older divorced man, younger battered damsel in distress, motorbike and boat. What more do you want? / (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

Some bad luck can turn out to be the luckiest of all