Slow Stories

A mysterious vintage Leica begins delivering photographs Alex never took—intimate moments with a woman he hasn’t met. Each image pulls him deeper into the city’s shadows and toward Maya, a poet with secrets of her own. As the camera reveals glimpses of a perfect future, Alex must choose: follow the vision—or step out of the frame and into something real. A story about love, fate, and a life unframed. This is the draft prior to final edit, which reduced it from 6,500 words to 1,700.

Single man owns his own home and business. Finds love in the lady next door.

An Uncle Bob Story
Cathy stays with her Uncle Bob, working at the Grain Elevator where she's small enough to get into tight places. Or she used to be. When she tries to unplug a pipe and gets stuck, the only way to get her out is to grease her up and it's Uncle Bob who has to smear on the oil. What happens then affects the pipe in Uncle Bob's jeans, which leads to HER pipe getting plugged up. And it looks like it'll take nine months to get her pipe cleared again. / (Reviews)

This is the first part of a series about the lives of a group of young people who work for TGI (a company based in a small town in England). This part is about the troubles in the marriage of Tim & Beth. / (Reviews)

Galen's employers provide such equipment as they deem necessary to enable him to perform his duties. One day, while attempting to get an early start on a service call in Savannah, Georgia, he had the misfortune (or great luck, depending on your viewpoint) to have some of that equipment fail. This is the story of what happened as a result of that failure.

Dan seemed like a normal retired guy. Kids in boarding school and college, separated from his wife he was mostly content to sit on his porch and read. A knock on his door from the new neighbors would reveal new opportunities for him, and the other life he kept they never would have suspected.

A Subway Story (7)
The last of the series of stories set on subway trains. This one involves a man, his lover and a nun's habit. An excerpt: "Do you realize what it does to a guy's ego when he's gotten a woman off six times in one night? And for Clarissa, that would just be shooting par. She made me feel like the greatest lover in the world. So she was perfect except for the one teeny, tiny, infinitesimal flaw: She was stark raving crazy about exhibitionist sex."

A woman going through a divorce and her three daughters move into the small home of her sister-in-law, her husband and their three sons. One son and the three daughters must sleep in the basement.