My father failed to pull out in time and so my twin and I were conceived. The year was 1936, the great depression was showing little sign of ending and my father had been out of work for a long time. About the last thing my parents needed was an additional child, much less twins. Still, call it fate, pre-determinism, or simply a reluctance to terminate their carnal pleasure in a timely manner. In any event the population of our country increased by two. I would like to say, the world as a ...

An innocent and delightful look back at the world our elders grew up in, as seen through the eyes of the author Steven Granson, born in 1936 during the height of the Great Depression. Enjoyable reading, humorously related, for young and old alike. For some a nostalgic flashback to their childhood years. For others an informative and entertaining insight into the world their parents and grandparents started out in; a world so different from today's. Including insightful observations of the ...

They say time heals all wounds ... theyre wrong. The emptiness is still there as are the guilts. The passing of time has not lessened either.My name is Kirk ... Kirk Crane. Im big. Six-two the last time I was measured; maybe more now. To look at me youd think I was skinny. Youd be mistaken. Im two hundred and sixteen pounds of bedrock muscle. I can kill with guns or my hands and I have.What Im trying to say is Im not the type of person you would want to have a confrontation...

MIAMI BEACH, FLORIDA, ONCE LITTLE MORE THAN A MOSQUITO-RIDDEN SWAMPLAND. TODAY ONE OF AMERICA'S MOST RENOWNED BEACH RESORTS. RADIANT SUN, SURF AND SAND--TRULY AN ISLAND PARADISE.EACH MONTH COUNTLESS TOURISTS POUR INTO THIS OCEAN RESORT. MANY ARE YOUNG ATTRACTIVE AND INNOCENT YOUNG GIRLS, LOOKING FOR MORE THAN JUST A GOLDEN TAN.SOMETIMES WHAT THEY FIND IS CONSIDERABLY MORE THAN WHAT THEY WERE LOOKING FOR."Greg Manley, a retired professor of philosophy, the sole w...

DRIVE-BY SHOOTING IN HARLEMtwo dead one in critical condition"Why, why would you want to do this? Haven't you been following the news, there have been gang related shootings and killings in that area. You can't get a taxi driver to go there ... even the police stay away from there, if they can."I mean it makes no sense now that you're retired, becoming a teacher, and if that's not bad enough doing it in Spanish Harlem. ... I mean Rick, it sounds to me you've lost you...

How they located him he had no idea. More to the point why he agreed to drive through the night and half the day to some little heard of town in the Florida Panhandle was even more perplexing to him.Once he pulled over and thought to turn back, only to remind himself there was nothing back there for him ... nine years with nothing to show for it other than a former girl friend and a rent-controlled one room walk-up apartment in the East Village.

South Florida 2012Memories, after all's said and done, that's what you're left with. When you've outlived your friends, and your child has moved on to make his own memories, and your body is no longer what it once was, and the limitless tomorrows have given way to only a few yet unused ones, and all that remains is a mountain of yesterdays.Now there's little to do but look back and ache for what was or could have been and your every day is filled with these memories and tho...

The year was 2007 the Democratic and Republican National Committees had, after a great deal of behind the scenes negotiations and arm twisting, come to terms on the selection of their candidates for the office of the President of the United States. For the Parties a great deal was at stake. To the victor would go the spoils; and in America the spoils were unimaginably great. Campaign money was abundantly available, thrown about like water by the lobbyists for the special interest groups. T...