Slow Stories

Another post-apocalypse yarn. Big people wake up skinny. Skinny people don't wake up. It's farm or die.

Kathy is alone and in bed. Through the open window comes the aroma of freshly baked bread, freeing her fantasies about the man who lives next door - the man who bakes bread every Saturday morning.

A Story in the Happily Ever...For Now Universe
Veronica, a woman in her mid 30's has had about all she can take. Her father died on the same day she learned of her husband's infidelity. She takes her cousin up on an offer of a vacation to a remote island off the coast of Puerto Rico. When she meets the handsome and much younger driver who works for her cousin, her vacation in solitude suddenly has a temptation she finds hard to resist.

A man's hand is forced, and he must move on. For a time he is subject to things imposed upon him. Eventually he regains control and obtains a measure of satisfaction.