This is a simple story of search for the comforts of a new mate when the one you spent a lifetime with leaves you behind. People do find new mates, but there are so many differences. Who will leave the home with so many memories, how do you deal with the feelings of being unfaithful, and how do you find someone you can also be a friend to as well as a mate? Sam and Elsie were next door neighbors, adding a track record of friendship, while at the same time causing yet another complexity. On...

This short story series concludes with 'New Roads'. The series follows two retirees, widowers, and former next door neighbors, as they close the doors on their previous long term marriages and seek in each other a loving partner to share the remainder of their life with. Their dramas are not unlike what many face, but it is their joy of life and appreciation of each other that lights their way through the dark times as well as the stormy times.

A family pet is a big committment, whether the caregivers are young or old. An elderly couple has additional considerations in considering their own lifespans that might fall short of a pet's, or their ability to meet the physical needs as in providing the exercise the pet needs. These considerations were minor, though, when compared to the differing visions of what a family dog should look like...particularly size. Men tend to prefer larger dogs, while women more often like something that...

Time Snap is the prequel to Hell Rise. "In The Beginning" are the first words of Genesis, and they tell us that the first thing to be created was Time. When the machinery of Time fractures, all animal life on Earth freezes except those near enough to Heaven's observation portals. While Heaven races to repair the machinery of Time, Host watch over two young lovers wandering through frozen life seeking other survivors, while watching out for Opposition Host.

This is the first of a short story series of varying topics and genres. The image of a police stand-off against a gunman with multiple hostages has made the video and print media all too many times. In this story, though, there are twists and surprises that no one could have possibly dreamed of, even in the worst of nightmares.Training and experience are invaluable to police in hostage crisis situations. But the formulas most successful in such situations can mislead when the game ...

Switch Child 2 takes up the story of Colin Craft, a six year old child who suffered a catastrophic head trauma in the same boating accident that claimed both his parents. Karl Hoffman wants to live up to being Colin's adoptive father, but there are problems. Colin managed to extend his awareness into the city's electrical infrastructure at first, and became so adept at it that, when his body gave out, Colin became a permanent resident of computers, digital communication devices, and connec...

The machinery of Time has been repaired. Chief of Intervention Masati has her beloved Moriah back, one of Heaven's most powerful Avenger Class Host. Yet she had strayed, and for that she must remain on Earth to perform penance, and learn a more humble demeanor. Her beloved, Barna, is tasked as her overseer. Their paths will be joined by Anna, who was Moriah's closest friend in Heaven before she strayed, and together they must also protect their human charges, Peter and Melanie, when one of...

Graduation from high school is something that most of us go through. It marks a rite of passage, a transition. Two students, one with the highest cumulative average and the other with the strongest political achievements, were tasked by a new and progressive principal to make this day unforgettable. So what was it that those who leave high school remember most after 5, or 10, or even 20 years later? That they found out, and crafted a ceremony that most of us can only wish we had.Whe...

Ryan Fitzgalen and his wife Vanessa, now raising a daughter of their own, have chosen to live in seclusion from the countless who seek to contact him. But the mission of the Family had to continue, and he remained the Family Patriarch. But things are changing, not only politically, but the structure of the Earth itself was preparing for an unprecedented upheaval. An autistic child is found to be watched over by an angel, and is is from both of those creations of God that guidance and illum...

What is a home? It is a familiar base that protects you, provides for you, while making great demands on you as time goes on. The servant slowly becomes more of a master. Letting go of the past is a frightening thing, which is as it should be. That keeps us from racing into uncertainty with too much risk. But too much reliance upon a past home prevents a new one from having a chance to form. We push our children out of their nest as part of our parental duties. Who, then, will push us out ...

The Fitzgalen Family continues to grow. With evolving and growing resources both in finances and the Family membership roster, spirit rescue teams are sent around the globe to seek out and assist lost souls. In the process, the Family starts to make contact with other groups with similar goals, teaming up with them to tackle those cases that had stumped the other groups. Threatening to hamstring this process, the biological mother to the two Gladstone teenagers is suing for custody, fearin...

What is deja vu, but a sense of having been somewhere before. The subconscious forgets nothing and can recreate every sense received by the central nervous system (except for pain...that's forgotten; had to be, or women would give birth only once otherwise). In Sand Soldier, patterns that began as a child are found to repeat twice more in later life, each time having deeper, and more dangerous, circumstances. Are they deepening of lessons started as a preschooler, or repeated warnings to c...