A New Life with Stormy
My wife and I had just finalized our divorce. We had been married for 25 years, which was really about 22 years too long. But you get comfortable with familiarity, and when she finally voiced the truth, that we had drifted apart and weren't really...
Carla, the Love Pet
When I was about 25, I had a friend who owned a large pet store. I've always been an animal lover, so I found myself hanging around the store quite a bit, helping out occasionally. My friend sold an amazing variety of animals, not just the usual dogs,...
Dolphin Dreams, Chapter 5
After scarfing down a sandwich, my mind awhirl with ideas, I pulled out a pad of paper and sketched out some rough designs, balling up and discarding a few before I had what I wanted. Yes! that would do it. What I had in mind was a very specialized...
Dolphin Dreams, Chapter 4
When I awoke, it was mid-morning, the sun already halfway up the sky. I thought I remembered an odd, powerfully erotic dream, where I was making love to a mythical creature, before I realized it was no dream. She had come to me, and given me what we...
Dolphin Dreams, Chapter 3
It was later that same evening, the sun almost down, when I finally came across a box of pictures. I should have known right away that I was headed for trouble. Here was Sara standing by a waterfall, on our vacation 3 years ago. There she was sitting...
Dolphin Dreams, Chapter 2
By late morning of the second day, my little bungalow was beginning to take shape. I stood back, looking around me at what I was making. The house was never meant to be a luxury palace, and we had chosen it for its simple utilitarian beauty. The...
Dolphin Dreams, Chapter 1
It was everything I had dreamed of. Almost. My wife and I had talked for years about quitting work early, and moving somewhere warm, just the two of us. We had read all of those articles about Americans retiring comfortably in Belize, and it sounded...