From birth to her death, Daren Edmondson grasped tightly all that fate placed at her feet. Those individuals enticed to tangle with Ms. Edmondson were intrigued. For most, contact with the woman led to erotic interactions they were unlikely to forget, for a few, the contact led to their untimely death at the water's edge.

Hero cop Martin Magnus encounters a bewildering series of events; including a baffling investigation that impacts him personally.A pedophilia victim , Martin has become a womanizer. After two marriages Martin is infatuated with his psychiatrist. But he falls for Linda Jordan, a woman half his age who has loved him from afar. Then he brings her into the vortex of his investigation, causing her serious harm and ending their affair. Disillusioned, Martin hooks up with Virginia Schultz...

The 52 situations penned to paper or clicked onto the screen before you are the ramblings of life experiences nurtured and blended together with daydreams, nightmares and flights of both fancy and fantasy. Should you find yourself stapled to these pages, don't believe what you see or believe. She or he in not you. They are shadows of a thought of a memory long forgotten, drawn from out of the dark recesses of a mind set free to roam without restraints. As a grade-schooler, ashen ladies and...

With lives in constant flux, women and men are at times lead by their hearts rather than their heads, and the heart knows not wrong from right each and every time a choice is offered. Whether the result of idle curiosity or rampant desire, spouses take lovers to their beds, sisters spirit in-laws astray, cousins tangle beyond those innocent kisses on the stairs. We face castigation head-on following discovery and still we savor the pleasures with a smile basking in the afterglow. Our step ...

Love gives women and men reason to live and continue the struggle that is life. For many, love alone is not the only reason; we can't all be dreamers. There are times when love intrudes on convention and one is asked to sin for love. It is said those who sin will be called upon to answer for their transgressions, but since time immemorial, fear of pain and punishment has failed to deter when both are part of the allure. And so it is with the women and men described in the following verses....

Imagination is a beautiful thing on which to feast. It can take one to exotic foreign lands, if only in daydreams. Imagination can join one with the famous, with the neighbor lady who often strutted about her backyard in her red bikini bottoms and a snug wet half-shirt, or, (for the ladies), your paper-delivery boy of yesteryear, now muscled to the nines, clad in black Speedos there on the Lake Erie shore. He's the same sixteen year old you intended to seduce on the second floor landing on...

Slices of lives in pursuit of passion or perversion, depending on one's place in the scheme of things, with many longing for love, unrequited or lost, only to learn the final cost more than one can bear. Yet we struggle and continue the search.

Wanting for another other than one's significant other is a product of Nature. it has been ingrained in our genetic makeup since Man rose up from the slime. The individuals who have donated words or titles or an idea for what developed into the following piece are in agreement with that fact. In the wild procreation and the continuance of the species are the primary reason for an animal to engage in a sexual relationship. Our earliest ancestors were pack animals out of necessity. The femal...

"This sparkling book romps over the range of science and anti-science." --Jared Diamond, author of Guns, Germs, and SteelRevised and Expanded Edition.In this age of supposed scientific enlightenment, many people still believe in mind reading, past-life regression theory, New Age hokum, and alien abduction. A no-holds-barred assault on popular superstitions and prejudices, with more than 80,000 copies in print, Why People Believe ...

Since the dawn of man, sexual pleasures have thrived in deed and thought, propagated our species, and populated the planet. According to the tenets of many faiths, in either form, sexual pleasures are said to be equally sinful when enjoyed outside of marriage, yet we enjoy. In the scheme of things, 'sinful' is a relative term, just a matter of place and time. Cain conceived with his sister. Abraham married his half-sister. Lot was made drunk and raped by his daughters. Two sons were brough...

When the wind-whipped whiteness screams out of the west and driving bans confine and restrict your movements, you can put your time to good use or become a couch-potato. Snow days don't have to be wasted. Most of the items mentioned on the following pages were put together using what my wife refers to as 'junk'. Admittedly, most of the items cataloged can be purchased finished and ready to use at your local sporting goods store, but what else is there to do when the snow flies?

Come closer, friend. Let me tell you a story.Heard the one about the Airbnb that eats your dreams or the iron-crowned king who preys on his own bloodline from the air, still smoldering centuries after being burnt alive? How about the cloudy antique bottle you can wish your excess rage inside, or that crooked alley down which something waits to replace your disappointing child with a far more pleasant facsimile? We all know the truth, especially in times like these—...