Category: Romance

His dirty, sweat-stained straw hat pulled as low on his head as possible, Silas belly crawled the last twenty-five yard across the crown of the rocky, brush-covered hill. He ignored the thorns on the ground sticking in his hands, and those grabbing at his denim brush jacket and jeans as he crawled through the brush. The rifle in his left […]

Some say, ‘From pain comes wisdom,’ but Megan had endured a lot over the past weeks and felt no wiser. Her boyfriend left her and it had hollowed out her soul. When she pushed through the door and rang the bell at Trader Dan’s, she was hoping to put a bullet in her old life and thumb her nose at […]

“So, this is the boy that’s responsible for my wife taking her life?” I asked Sergeant Robinson as I stared at the photograph on the desk in front of me. It had been three days since Jaime had taken an overdose of sleeping medication to end her life. “Going on his looks I find that hard to believe. I can’t […]

They say some women are worth killing and dying for. I used to believe only fools felt that way. Then I met her. She wasn’t worth killing and dying for, though; she was worth lighting the world on fire just to watch the flames dance in her eyes. A vision of pure beauty, long, athletic legs with thighs that reminded […]

In 1998, Declan was twenty-eight and teaching tennis at the Conde Monsanto Country Club in Viña del Mar, Chile. A year earlier he had been doing engineering work in the Bolivian salt flats, a quick but well-paying job for the Inter-American Foundation. A friend suggested they do a quick tour of Chile before heading back to Missouri and he gladly […]

Mrs. Landry was looking at me as she made her way through the outer area where all the work cubicles are. She had her serious face on as she walked through the door of my office. She’d been widowed for some time, yet everyone still addressed her as Mrs. Landry. She stood average height for a woman of her physical […]

My cleats made that wonderful ‘clickety-clack’ noise as I climbed the stairs of the dugout and made my way to the on deck circle. It was a cool day at Fenway Park in the afternoon fall sunshine for the final instalment of the 162 game MLB season. For both of the teams the season was drawing to a close. Neither […]

I stared furiously at the blank page in front of me, catching sight of my furrowed brow on the screen. I rubbed my forehead, my mothers warnings about wrinkles echoing in my ears. This man would be the death of me. It had been a month since I’d started my sessions with Will, and I had nothing more than a […]

How can I love you? Is it possible to love while being in love with another, or maybe a little different, is it possible to be in love while loving another? It is (sometimes) difficult to separate the two concepts and even more impossible to combine them. Is it not obvious that one leads to the other?

“Want a woman to text with….any subject…it’s your choice.” The ad stuck out at me like a sore thumb. This guy wants to talk to women about anything. Hum. So, I clicked on the ad and read it. Wow!!! This can’t be real. A guy actually finds talking with women exciting. As I was having a lonely, quiet, boring evening […]