Slow Stories

Another came home early story.

She should have stayed where she was.

Was it really blackmail?

Sixteen years of marriage. Three beautiful daughters. A wife who is the richest woman in the city. Dr. Ethan Hale thought he was the luckiest man alive. Then three paternity tests came back negative. When he demands a divorce, his billionaire wife Claire just smiles and tears up the papers. Her father has him beaten. Her lawyers bury him. Her powerful family calls him a gold digger who should be grateful for scraps. They think he's a quiet, spineless doctor. They have no idea what a genius...

Some things cannot be done alone; they need co-operation. In the greater scheme of things, that usually derives from caring about something. Caring can cause anger, resentment and in some cases love. Join a young man who only feels he has a job and tries to do it well, then finds out it leads to real friends and maybe caring and love too. The setting is S E France, the action mostly in Europe, that changes eventually also.

Exhibitionist housewife knocks on the door of a vampire

A naive young couple teach each other some lessons on relationships.

A quirky romance between two college students. This story began as a short story for a creative fiction class ten years ago and I've gradually been adding and re-editing it since. I'm reposting part one and adding the other three parts. There is no real explicit sex in Less than Half.