Just Friends

SamNY: Hi, I saw your profile and would love to introduce myself. I’m Sam, and I think you’re beautiful. I’m only thirty but I’ve been told I’m very wise beyond my years. I’d love to meet you and take you out to dinner, sometime. Hornedhousewife: Hello! Your profile picture is… Read more“Just Friends”

Jessie

The damned old truck just gave up the ghost. It coasted down to the bottom of the hill and died. It was very old, 400 and some thousand miles on the clock. Everything in it was worn out including the driver. Life can be a real bitch. I shouldn’t have… Read more“Jessie”

Jacked

*Author’s note: As with the story I wrote called Revenge, this contains one violent episode, but the intent is not to be graphic. It’s to show that the police can’t be in all places at all times with the obvious implication that an honest, caring citizen with a gun can… Read more“Jacked”

Indian Summer

“I can’t thank you enough for doing me this favor, Daniel, this is my shot at tenure if I can finish my research, and teaching a summer session class would have been difficult for me to pull off.” Richard Mallory, a History professor at Heights University, hastily shoved papers into… Read more“Indian Summer”

Harmony Hill

Going out the door of my apartment, a two bedroom place in The Waterstone, a complex of burgundy brick buildings with white shutters amidst rolling lawns, behemoth pine trees and meandering sidewalks of serpentine rock, I wore my jogging togs: blue cotton shorts, a University of Washington tee shirt and… Read more“Harmony Hill”