I took my time driving back to the warehouse to drop off the van. It would be the loneliest ten blocks I’d ever walked once I did, because I’d met Nancy. It is one thing to be lonely and ache for some...
Ellen’s smile was like a lighthouse beacon, guiding me away from the war. There was something happening, and it felt natural, as though it was always going to happen, someday.
Found what I believed to be the shoulder and managed to stop. It felt solid. The storm was interfering with radio reception, so I bundled up and listened to tapes of Alan Ladd in Box 13 and Larry Thor...
Without being able to explain how I knew, having no more experience than I had in such matters, I instinctively realized that she was extraordinarily beautiful. Yet hers was the kind of beauty that wo...
We’re certainly glad to have you aboard. You’re the top man in your field. I can think of no better case to start you on than that of Laura Blake. If one didn’t know that she was completely delusional...
Try as he did at such times, his thoughts would inevitably turn to the pretty girl named Annie. Tony was always able to sense when the cowboy's deep longing for the girl was at its worst, and nudged h...
There are only really two kinds of people in the world; those who love small towns, and those who hate them.
The late afternoon sky over Paris imparted a softer glow to the city, hinting in a lover’s whisper to be patient with her, because the romantic heaven of Paris by night was only a few hours away, and...
The human heart buries memories of love, files them away somewhere when they don't work out, because it hurts too much to remember feelings that you have little hope of recapturing. The truth is, you...
She was the kind of girl any guy could fall head over heels for in five seconds and I was trying to decide if she was on the up-and-up. We'd talked and sparred and laughed, yet I still knew nothing ab...
Perhaps I was in that season of winter in which all writers experience at some point. Did I still believe or didn't I? I had once, long ago. But years pass, seasons change, and hope and faith sometime...
Paris is a sensuous woman every man has loved, even if only in his dreams. Once he has been deep inside her, walked her streets and tasted her delights, he can never forget her. Yet no matter how stro...
One does not have to give up their own beliefs to understand and respect those of another people. We must learn to live together, now, there is no other way.
Oh, right, just stroll on down to the car lot, big as you please. What’ll I say I’m doing? He knows I can’t afford a car. Karen started laughing again as she answered. You could tell him you’ve lost a...
Off in the distance big white cruise ships had pulled into port, glistening beneath the Mexican sun. Vacationers for whom murder was not on the itinerary. Throngs of young college kids on break, males...
Now people nowadays, especially the younger ones, they don’t have an ounce of romance in their soul. It’s all zombies and video games, shallow celebrities. They love insta-sex but make fun of what the...
Nobody talks about the corrupt American police, though, do they? They only talk about the corrupt Columbian and Mexican law enforcement unable to stop it. There is plenty of corruption, sure, but that...
Night had fallen on San Francisco. Once upon a time, the romantic city’s evenings had brought with it the sound of Henry Mancini’s beautiful Lujon, but now there was no music left for me. Claire had t...
My mother had died giving birth to me, and no one seemed to know who my father was, so I had become a ward of the state. I had grown up in the orphanage, under the warm and caring tutelage of Aunt Bet...
Manners hadn't been whistling Dixie about the disturbances in the cottage, however. He seemed like a stand-up guy, even good enough to warn me about the house before I'd forked over the cash. He was p...