Chenoa and her friends were sitting on the restaurant’s patio having lunch. The patio was adjacent to the park’s main walkway. On this gorgeous spring day, many folks were out enjoying the park. It allowed Chenoa to people-watch, one of her favorite activities. Chenoa noticed a dog trotting down the walk. It was pure black with long silky hair that just radiated health. It looked like a German Shepherd, or wolf, except fo...

Summer 1946. It was another hot day. Timmy’s tie was still in his pocket, and his dress shirt was untucked and unbuttoned, with the sleeves rolled up. His bare chest glistened with sweat. This neighborhood of East Los Angeles didn’t help. The houses filled the small lots with little room for cooling landscaping. Instead, it was the asphalt streets and concrete sidewalks intensifying the heat. East L.A. was Timmy’s choice...

The heat and humidity were unbearable as I approached the pond hidden behind the resort. So far my first solo vacation to a tropical paradise since the divorce was uneventful and somewhat lonely. The few single women I had encountered were either not interested or with other women, leaving me to satisfy my own needs. The pond had become my haven. I slipped off my shorts and waded into the pond, the cool water feeling invi...

"Are you interested in ancient temples?" she asked. Arthur looked up from his late lunch at the small Welsh country pub outside Pembroke. It was the thirteenth of August. The Summer sun had warmed the afternoon nicely, and the patio table he sat at was in a quiet corner. On the table next to his meal was an open book. She was beautiful, was his first thought. The kind of dignified British beauty that instantly turned an A...

Sixty-year-old divorcee Alan Storrie had been to watch a top comedian at his local theatre on his own, he did virtually everything on his own these days. He had become something of a recluse after his ex-wife Shirley left him about three years previously to set up home with a man from her work almost twenty years her junior. Alan and Shirley used to go out quite regularly, to the pub or to dances, as part of a circle of s...

The airport terminal was crowded and noisy as Ray stood at the conveyor and waited for his bag to come around, jostling with the others that waited impatiently as the baggage carousel churned slowly. He kept his head down as he tried to avoid the cameras and kept an eye out for the security guards posted by the foyer. Concerned that he stood out in his denim jacket and sneakers while everyone around him wore heavy coats o...

Sue and Chris Smith were walking in the village to which they had moved several years ago when Sue noticed a couple on the other side of the road that looked vaguely familiar. "Do they remind you of anyone, her in particular?" Sue said to her husband. "Well she looks a bit like Fiona Metcalf and I suppose that could be Clive," replied Chris. The other couple was looking in a shop window and were not aware that they were b...

Forty-four-year-old Marie Thompson was in a pub on a girls night out with three fellow teachers from the local high school. It was a quite nice pub but one that Marie had not been in for some time. The four women got a seat and then, having ascertained what everyone wanted to drink, Marie headed for the bar. Marie had a smile on her very attractive face, she was a generally happy person, as she arrived at the bar and she...