It’s a story that’s been told for centuries. Young lovers come from widely divergent backgrounds. One comes from a more orthodox family, often rich, while the ...
Norman Thayer, Jr is quite possibly the biggest curmudgeon
on the face of the planet. He’s also one of the sweetest people ever. But,
according to his longsuff...
Sophie Sheridan and her mother Donna live in paradise. While helping Donna run a quaint but crumbling inn on an idyllic Greek island, Sophie met the man of her dreams, Sky. And now, they’re planning a wedding, an idea about which Donna, a single mot...
William
Gillette has played Sherlock Holmes for so long he’s half convinced he is the
mythic hero. And, it turns out, he’s not that far off. When a series of
m...
What starts out as a one-night stand turns into an annual rendezvous in the same room in the same seaside inn on the same weekend every year for Doris and Geor...
We’ve all been there. Stuck in a city in the desert, being forced to steal to survive. And suddenly, a shady-looking guy carrying a staff with a giant cobra head on top comes along and offers us the opportunity of a lifetime. I mean nobody with a co...
Ralphie Parker, a nine-year-old in 1940 Indiana, wants nothing in life more than a Red Ryder Carbine Action 200-Shot Range Model Air Rifle with a compass in the...
Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the past sixty years or so, you are at least familiar with the existence of good ol’ Charlie Brown and his gang of pa...
Howard and Leah were high school sweethearts, but when his dad got transferred, Howard moved away before his senior year. Unless you believe that rumor about Leah being pregnant. Fast forward several years. Okay, several decades. Leah looks up Howard...
Lots of folks claim not to like hot dogs, but that seems a little hard to swallow, pardon the pun, considering how many of these definitive American sausages ar...
Joe Stephens is the author of The Shalan Adventures, starring Harry and Dee Shalan. While he's not writing stories of daring-do, he's an award-winning high school English teacher. He's also a big fan of anything nerd, especially superhero.
