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  • Romantic Interlude

    “We belong together, Cynthia. I’ll be gentle with you forever. I will keep you safe even in your dreams.” Read more

  • Tanning Mission

    No time share was worth freezer burn… Read more

  • The Lionel and Berny

    Finally, after all these years, the “Lionel and Berny,” an intimate bowl of a theatre would open. Read more

  • Dear Creativity

    Not everyone dreams of living in a mansion with granite. Some of us dream of a house with an old stone wall. Read more

  • Duty

    “I am a Goddess, worship me.” I said. Read more

  • Fire Wall

    Squatch stunk like he hadn’t been crawdad fishing in months. Read more


  • Portsmouth

    I need to go back to Portsmouth, UK to where my boys were born. I’d like to visit my neighbors, and hang with them a day or two. We’re good friends and good company. You don’t find that often enough these days.  I’d like to take the boys with me too. We could walk along…

  • But I don’t want to

    “Are you still working? Why don’t you retire?” Everybody wanted  to know because of the silver hair and wrinkles.  Fred asked at the wrong time. Janice was tired and not in the mood. He thought women were silly. He retired early five years ago.  “Why? Do you need someone to take care of you?” Janice…

  • Learning

    I’m too tired to argue and fuss about mess today.

  • Elvis and the Baltic Sea

    Drat, dammit, and O hell, my plans to go to the Baltic Sea for vacation had fallen through. I was at the pinnacle of despair, flustered to the very bone. It was the coffee klatches fault.  Susan’s husband had put his foot down, he said flat out “No.” He wasn’t about to let her go.…

  • Test Day

    It’s the little things that make mountains. Kaiden didn’t want to wear his headphones even though they were a requirement for the test. “I know how to read, why do I have to do this?” He was in the sixth grade, and his third grade reading scores indicated that headphones would be more helpful than…