Adoption Stories

She was beautiful. From the first moment I saw her walking past my studio windows I was captured. Every afternoon, at the exact same time, she came by and I stopped working and watched her walk into the distance.In the second week, I’d made up my mind; I needed to learn more about her. I decided on a simple course of action: follow her. I know, I sound like a stalker. But I needed to see where she went and find out if the...

Daniel sat at the bottom of the bed, it had been a hard few years for him. His wife of nearly fifty years had died and the company he had started up with a few friends was taken over by bureaucrats, at least he got a good settlement from it. Now he was a 67-year-old man, retired and bored.He got up from the bed and walked into the bathroom, he looked in the mirror, god, what a sight. He had turned grayer over the last few...