Slow Stories

A Story in the Manatee Bay Universe
I am posting this today because it is March 8... International Women's Day. We are 5 years after the Montessori HS story. Paul Jackman is mayor of Manatee Bay. Rev. Harrison, everyone's favourite bigot, has left town after his son was convicted of shooting at Debra & Paul Jackman with a paintball gun. All the schools are clothes-free & while the bylaws do not permit total nudity for adults, top-freedom is customary for both men and women. However, there is an air of change in the wind...

Dirt-track race-car driver Mel Austin is badly injured in a crash and wakes up in the hospital being nursed by friend and fellow driver Arlene. They decide it's time to grow up and live a more conventional life, so marry and settle down to teaching and nursing, jobs they both like. But, they've been racing cars long enough that it's hard to stay away from the tracks and out of the cars on them... How can they scratch the itch without exposure to the danger?

Elena Bradburn has prescient visions. These sometimes manifest as quick glimpses of the future in her waking life, but are also shown to her in vivid and repetitive dreams. For the past severl months, she has been dreaming about Gavin Young, and has been planning their first meeting.

A boy and his baby sitter grow up together and fall in love. / (Reviews)

An unexpected holiday, an accident, a dying man and a fascinating woman with an unusual ability; can Bella change Andrew from being a confirmed bachelor? Oh, and more motorbikes. / (Reviews)

He's just not noticeable - you'd pass him in a crowd. Jim Smith tried hard to fit in to society, but eventually decided to go sailing. This isn't a travelogue, but it is the story of his voyage and how he found someone to love him on the way. / (Reviews)

I wrote some of it for Student Assistance so I wrote the rest. If you have haven't read Student Assistance, don't worry. This stands alone. It's written from male and female perspectives about two older people who meet and fall for each other. I even wrote a sequel. 73, RG

His wife ran off with another man, leaving him with two sons to raise. They were not expecting a blond goddess to appear in the middle of a snow storm and rescue them, or did they rescue her?

Dale has to get his life back in order after a nasty accident at work has left him a paraplegic. His one bright light is his live-in career. / (Reviews)