Chicago lawyer falls for exotic dancer and she changes his dull life. Many of her colleagues add remarkable vigor to this tale.

A housepainter is confronted by the sister of his deceased best friend.

Chet has trouble with mom & her boyfriend as well as with kids in the Housing Project where he lives. Things aren't any easier at school. He's devised two plans of escape but just one will work.

Shady shenanigans underway and ashore! The Ship is the USS Ramply, a Norfolk based destroyer operating with the carrier Roosevelt in the Mediterranean Sea. A Corvette loving Boatswain Mate, a singing Oregonian, a poet in love with a woman he met in Valencia, a Bostonian short-timer and a gambling coup provide the action and suspense.

Former dishwasher Jeff Gardener is confined to the one-star rated Crestwood House nursing home after suffering a paralyzing stroke. A nurse's aide named Diane is the one bright spot in his existence. Events in her life, combined with a pastime of his, impact his being and fate in eerie and fantastical ways hard to imagine.

A short story revolving around a photographer's obsession with a thoroughbred jockey and a horse he rides named Prism. Bianca treats Jerry to adventures beyond his wildest imaginings. Join them for coffee at the Spoon Click Breakfast & Lunch and a cocktail at the Shanty Bright Lounge.

Career Choices is about repaying favors even if what's required to set things straight is illegal and riskier than any reasonable citizen would expect. Jim Laker and Robbie Rowel occupy he platforms on this sensitive scale.Many thanks to the previously publisher of this 1,134 word story, Once Upon A Crocodile, under the title The Missing Professional, 1/3/2019.

The Boss sends a worker on a mission and it's not to the corner store for a pack of cigarettes.(This story was once part of my Smashwords story, "Knucklehead the Cat."

This 2,341-word account of one Trevor Shawl's nostalgic trip to the Uptown Downy Lounge is fraught with suspense, terror. Some characters in this tale will bring smiles, others are the stuff of 911 calls.I am most grateful to Between These Shores Literary & Arts Annual, previous publisher of "Hot And High At The Uptown Downy" under the title "The Heavenly Wrangler."

Lydia leave Florida for Barker's Leap, Massachusetts. Lofty soon follows. They work at Hughie's Diner and meet many interesting characters, Buff and Restin the standouts.Same Lydia and Lofty sketched in "Lydia: An Introduction" and "Lofty: An Introduction." This story also stands on its own eight pages but why not take time to read the aforementioned titles? Further information about Lydia and Lofty here as well as the debut of other characters. This is the second piece crafted from a 9,60...

Odd relationship between divorced textile worker and his precocious daughter.

Thirty-two poems regarding my many years of racetrack experiences and observations.