Chapter 6On Monday the phone began to ring. A lot of people had seen the news Friday night and I was suddenly a very popular architect. I had meetings all week with prospective clients and my calendar was filling up for the next several months. I figured...
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The news came on at 6:00 but we agreed that I would get there early and help her with dinner. I knocked on the door at 5:30 and Karin opened the door. Karin is a pretty woman in her own right. She stood there blocking the door and looking at me. She was w...
Friday morning I was working on the Skinner job when my doorbell rang. When I opened the door a woman was standing there with a microphone and a man standing behind her with a camera. The woman with the mic was attractive, with long brown hair."Mr Conners...
Love Created
She was the most beautiful woman he knew. Ronald Casey's life is complete when she's around.She was exquisite, a woman of pure creation. Golden shoulder length hair framing the soft, pink skin of her face. Brilliant green eyes bursting with a sparkle that mesmerize anyone near. Full, gloss covered lips glimmering in the light, hiding behind was...
The distraction provided by Alex had been good for me because it had gotten my mind off of my family problems. I went back to work in my home workshop and was focused and efficient. A couple of days later I received a phone call from Alex. “How would you...
Soon afterward the rain began to pick up a little. I turned on my wipers intermittently and thought absently if I should have asked for her phone number. I had a feeling I had missed an opportunity. About 20 minutes later I saw smoke rising up ahead and t...
Cover to Cover - Chapter One
Man rescues woman, then drives away.Chapter 1The rain was relentless, coming down in sheets that my wipers could barely keep up with. I had slowed to less than 40 miles per hour because the visibility was so bad. I guess it was a fitting end to a gloomy weekend. I had driven 200 miles to se...
That summer, it was too hot. We didn’t have a thermometer, and even if we had, the little red lines and numbers wouldn’t have meant much to me. But I knew that it wasn’t normal. It couldn’t be. By the time the church clock struck ten it was already too st...
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The Sheriff
Love is like a tattoo ...Denlea wasn’t the sort of town you’d expect to see a tattoo-come-body-piercing parlour, but there it stood. 'HIBISCUS - Body Art and Massage' shared a row of grey stone terraced buildings with a chip shop, a boutique for mature ladies, a hardware shop, a...
Finding Home
Vietnam veteran, after many years, finds that he is loved and welcomed home.Hell, we were friends. We had always been friends. My back door looked across the alley to her backdoor. My family moved in when I was four. I would stand with my hands clutched to the chain link fence and watch her. Shortly after we moved in, my mother a...
The Music of Orpheus
A contemporary story based loosely on the Orpheus Eurydice legendWhile sweeping the hallway or emptying the trash cans, or making sure the bathrooms had paper towels and toilet paper, Orrin thought about Jessica. “So what if I’m the janitor and she’s a lawyer’s assistant, I’m just as good as anyone who works at Ainswor...
The Cure -- Chapter One
Charlotte Jane Woods' life is sent spiraling into chaos.“Dad, come on,” she began as she held out a plate of food to her father. “You have to try and eat something.” He looked up at her with his tired, over-worked blue-gray eyes. “Charlotte, I can’t. I have to focus on my research. This is very important.” She...
Unintended
Lissa's life changes when she sees him in the art galleryLissa Morgan walked along the busy street in New York city, talking on her cell as she kept an eye on the overcast sky. It was just mid September, but the rain had been threatening the residents for a week now and had not fully released itself. Her honey...
The accident wasn’t her fault. It was both of theirs. “… I can’t help falling in love with you”, sung Elvis Presley’s husky voice from the radio. It was the 3 rd of January 1962 and the summer heat was out in full force. It was what you would expect to se...