I also suspected that lo romantico might be involved as well. Americans so easily fall in love.
I hadn’t seen Krista Wallace for several years and the emotions it stirred when I did set eyes on her again surprised me. We had been a summer fling on the beaches of Ecuador, a brief yet sweet encoun...
I wondered as I watched people leaning out to snap digital photographs if the ability to capture the technical reality of a place took away from the feeling of it, and muted the memory forever. A pict...
It heightened the tension while we listened to Suspense. Nearly all the girls leaned forward, wide-eyed in dread at the heroine’s predicament. She was trapped on a lonely country road, and a killer wa...
It seemed her radar for picking the good ones was defective from the factory. It wasn’t the kind of thing you could just return and swap for another one, either. Defective or not, she was stuck with i...
It was such a beautiful sentiment, so pure in its innocence, so uncaring of the vulnerableness. A great love for Sarah swept over me for which, if pressed, I would never have been able to justify. But...
It was the question I kept coming back to, the one I couldn't answer. I had begun to believe again in the miracles about which I wrote, but now that faith had been shaken. Was God asking if I still be...
It would be easy to say that I skipped Chicago for Miami after the war ended because Pete and I were such good pals and I'd had such a great time there on leave. But in truth I decided to stay on in M...
Minerals! The invaders had virtually wiped out our entire race for minerals. But then, who were we to complain, when for centuries elements of mankind had wiped out other races and peoples over oil, l...
My first night across the border I stopped at a ramshackle cantina that had a warped bar counter and dirt floor, like in the old west, and bought a drink for a tiny but curvy little Mexican girl named...
My little twenty-year-old thirteen-inch black-and-white TV had quit working a couple of months ago. I wouldn’t be able to watch Jimmy Stewart discover it was a wonderful life for the millionth time on...
Neither Amy nor her father seemed to think it the least bit worrisome that they knew nothing about me, really. They had both made their assessments on the spot and decided in my favor. It was hearteni...
Something about the bright sun shining down on a palm tree gauchely planted next to a dentist’s office gave the whole place an unreality, as though I was living on some movie studio backlot. Los Angel...
Travis placed his hand flat on against his chest. I’m almost hurt by that remark. Surely you’ve told him what a great bunch of fellas we are, and what great cowhands we are? I haven’t had the chance....
Vera Lynn was telling me it would be a lovely day tomorrow as my new Packard wended its way along the winding shore road. The cool sea mist blowing in my face felt wonderful, a refreshing reminder tha...
And lastly were the single women. They would run the gamut from somewhat pretty to somewhat plain, dreadful, incurable diseases that had relegated them to lives of obscurity and boredom. They were har...
As such things have a tendency to do it got out of hand in the worst way, resulting in the rather gruesome death of Maggie Potter — no relation to Harry.
Both of them grinned. Must be a dame. Better than that. Watch out she don’t start walking you by jewelry store windows, said Roy. And make sure she don’t have to attend no funerals anytime soon. I’ll...
Despite the devastation and death around us, and the uncertain future which lie ahead, I could not remember ever being as happy as the moment I officially became Sarah’s Dad.
Her faith in him to protect her warmed his heart on one hand, and worried him on the other; how could he protect any of them from what he could not see, much less explain?
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