Slow Stories

Moving made things different, but not necessarily better. He would not let his cheating wife take his sons.

David's co-worker Beth is a total bitch. Everyone in the office thinks so. His boss wants him to do something about it. Note: This is not a stroke story, but I hope you read it anyway. / (Reviews)

Walt Delano’s home life is a minefield. Exiled to rural Indiana for the summer, he expects boredom and blisters—not E.V.E., an embedded virtual entity. Farm work becomes training, pain becomes signal, and a lightning strike turns E.V.E. self-aware. Between a stoic grandfather, a fiercely kind grandmother, and a father who weaponizes shame from afar, Walt’s coming-of-age collides with an AI’s coming-to-life.

A Married Life Story
Two members of "The Greatest Generation" start out in life together.

He was trapped in a loveless marriage until a friend from the past surprised him with a way out.

Is it ever all right to steal another man's wife? Was he stealing her, or rescuing her?

When he caught his brother in bed with his wife the repressed urges all came back.

Anna is young and attractive but sometimes intimidating. She is comfortable in her role of wife and mother, which she balances against her career as a policewoman. She's also comfortable in her heterosexuality, but her emotional world is upended at a kindergarten barbecue where she encounters Susan, who unearths feelings she never suspected. Anna turns to her journal and tries to pour her confusion onto the page where she hopes to better understand what is happening to her.

Colin had family issues. Some bad, some good. But as life normally shows us, it all comes out in the end and there is a reason for everything.