Another tear rolled slowly down her cheek, like liquid pain escaping from her broken heart.
A tall, leggy French girl on her way to work was looking at her phone and almost walked into me as I crossed the street. I dodged her just in time and she glanced back to give me a dirty look. How dar...
Wyn could never be afraid of death, because he had already died, that night, so long ago.
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...
They have public service announcements about cancer, heart disease, every malady imaginable. But no one ever warns you about the world’s greatest killer — Hope.
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...
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.
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...
Neither complained, because they liked going on dates — when they were allowed — and it was especially fun when they could double date. Dances and the malt shop, and occasional jaunts to see a Tyrone...
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 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...
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...