The stars were out and bright, and the moon was close to full. There were no UFOs hovering over the trailer or anywhere else that I could see. It might seem strange to be so nonchalant about it all, b...
So you say. I gotta say, you’ve got a better imagination than most of the low-lifes who come through here. Too bad you didn’t get to Hollywood and put some of it on paper.
I got him in the ankle, Kelly clarified. She added, The gun was a gift from daddy. He says you never know who you'll run into and it's better to have protection. Jeff tried to look respectful at the m...
Don’t come out from under unless you hear my voice. Understand?Karen’s eyes were full of tears but she nodded and slid beneath the Gremlin. I’d purchased it from some guy who’d been using it as a dune...
Another tear rolled slowly down her cheek, like liquid pain escaping from her broken heart.
What I remembered best, however, was a darkly sensual Ecuadorian girl as tender, hungry and insatiable as any I'd ever encountered. She was engaged to one of the Ecuadorian airport personnel but from...
We sat next to each other. The sound of the locomotive and the smell of the sea drifted in through the open window. It did not go unnoticed by either of us that we were alone and without recent memory...
We enjoyed our newfound intimacy, quietly and tenderly adoring each other as Jasper kept hopping into his pretty master's lap to be in the middle of things. There is nothing like love when it is new,...
Tommy Dorsey’s Opus One, had Moonlight Cocktails with Glenn Miller and his band, took a Sentimental Journey with Les Brown and Doris Day, and finally boarded a Slow Boat to China with Kay Kyser, Harry...
Things were always tight because the state only allowed for room and board and meals. I knew this money had come from sacrifice and love. I wiped my tears and whispered to my empty compartment, I love...
The station was broadcasting Glenn Miller and his band from some ballroom in Pennsylvania. It was probably one of those Music of Your Life stations. Miller's music still sounded fresh generations afte...
That made her smile. She said in a rush, as though she’d been wanting to say it, It’s funny how lonely you can be when you’re with a lot of people, isn’t it? And how lonely you can be when you’re all...
She hadn’t smiled, just watched him cautiously as he got out of his truck and approached. Buford couldn’t blame her. It was lonely here at this time of morning and he realized he must look suspicious....
She began to run again, her legs shaky, her head throbbing, fear reaching into the pit of her stomach and making it difficult to breathe. Pieces of...people littered the street like gruesome confetti....
Old Harry, who knew more about boats and the sea than anybody I knew, was sleeping off last night's tequila on my big cruiser/houseboat, Stella. She'd been named after Gail Russell's character in an o...
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...
Jeanette once told me that video games and mainstream entertainment were like marketing tools for the confused and disconnected youth of America. She believed society and its moral center, its sense o...
It was still dark. I grabbed the Howzer by the bed and crept quietly from the bedroom. I saw her through the screen door and laid down the gun, my soul in turmoil. As she stood silently crying beneath...
I'm glad you're along, Juanita. We may need you to translate. I forget to tell, Johnny. My Spanish not so good. I from Tijuana. We all looked at her in disbelief and then the laughter started. This wa...
I wondered how in the world I could possibly sleep now, knowing a wonderful girl who loved me was just down the hall. Slipping into Johnny's pajamas, I figured I might as well see what Perry and Della...