FRIENDS and Lovers

‘Fiction’

I still wasn’t sure why she wanted me to drive out to the house but whatever her reasons, I had to do something. Read more »

A dramatic duet about a beaten wife and her mentally ill sister. Read more »

“That’s right ,” she said sobbing. “You get out of here before I kill you.” Read more »

The beach at Kos had no name, yet this did not distinguish it particularly from any other beach that lined the 45-kilometer stretch along the brilliant Aegean Sea. Read more »

I had just gotten to my brother’s apartment, after somehow managing to sprain both my ankles playing basketball… Read more »

There was something about her. Maybe it was her smile, or the way her eyes twinkled when she spoke. Read more »

One night, when a newlywed couple were sound asleep in their bed, the husband dreamt he was visited by a genie who told him, “I will grant you any wish your heart desires.” Read more »

In 1991 Emily Piper, a graduate student at Berkeley, has nearly finished her dissertation on metaphysics when her life is changed by, the great Berkeley-Oakland fire that destroyed over three thousand homes. Read more »

The tire flapped and scrubbed as Ginger Curtis looked for a spot to pull over. Finding one, she eased the car onto the shoulder of the road and cut the engine off. Read more »

“Look at him. Isn’t he the hunk of the century? And you think you’ve got him all to yourself?” Read more »

He looks at her, tries to remember what drove him to possess her. Read more »

Set in the turn-of-the-century, a small town in the city of Vancouver, in southwestern British Columbia, Canada. Here, is the story of a deeply moving love affair between Tristan Haze, a critically acclaimed Canadian writer and his lifetime love, Victoria Clair, only daughter of a popular chocolate maker. Read more »

June 1909. Victoria stared dreamily out of her bedroom window. Read more »

Since Christmas that year, Tristan and Victoria saw each other almost every single day. Read more »

Tristan settled well in England. He studied hard in King’s College, London. He found a simple hostel and life was fine. Read more »

April 1920. Tristan got off from the dusty old bus. Read more »

September 1920. Tristan and Victoria got married in a little church in town. Read more »

That night I was meeting Paul at a donor’s house for a dinner party organized to help raise yet more money. Read more »

He put down his salad fork and turned to me, his eyes were far away. “Yes, there was a woman who lived in England. She was a professor at Oxford.” Read more »

My wedding was small, but I wanted it that way. We spent our honeymoon hiking the mountains of Colorado, off the beaten trails. Read more »

From the beginning, the child growing inside her seemed aware of the need for secrecy.  It took her monthly flow quietly, swelled her fingers quietly, introduced quietly a craving for mayhaw jelly and Karo syrup straight from the bottle.  Read more »

“Intelligent, sensitive artist. Unstable creative type. Friend of little children and dogs. Enemy of bankers and landlords. Seeking pretty, slender lady with soft heart and sense of humor.” Read more »

I promised myself I would never tell. It matters little now if I do, secrets are made to be told, but where to start? Read more »

I am sitting on the edge of the tub naked, holding it in my hand. Each night I wait until I hear that particular little catch of breath, a small soft noise that she makes before her breathing goes slow and regular. What is that noise? I worry about it. Read more »

Noa’s decision to stop buying kosher meat, without letting her husband Noah know, was, on the face of it, a sudden impulse. Read more »

She stirred her coffee while looking absently out the window at the traffic on Main Street. No words were necessary now. The look that had passed between them was all the introduction that they required. Read more »

You know, I thought all of my teenage ways of daydreaming and pinning for a guy were left behind when I graduated high school. Obviously, they weren’t because right now I’m doing both of those things for a guy I can’t stop thinking about. Read more »

From the first moment I was doomed. Looking back, I’m amazed that I succumbed so quickly. I’m anything but weak-willed – yet it’s as if I had no defense against her. Read more »

My friend Sherry thought it’d be just peachy keen if I blind-dated this second removed cousin of hers while he was in town. I didn’t say okay right from the top because I’m not much of a social butterfly. Read more »

I suppose you could attribute it to my curious nature but I can’t stand a secret. The quickest way to irritate me is to say, “I’ve got a secret, but I can’t tell you.” It really drives me nuts! Read more »

Prologue: She said “If only I was her mother…” Read more »

…”You ready to go on a trip you might never forget?!?! Ha ha ha!”  Read more »

“Is that what you needed to get?” Read more »

“Let’s walk in” Read more »

“Pool!” Read more »

“…”I have an idea, just follow my lead” Read more »

“Okay Ian, I want you to just listen to what I’m going to say. Understand me when I say that I fell in love with you from the moment I first saw you, up to now, and I probably will never stop loving you. Read more »

Jeremiah: Thus, his latest work was complete. He applied closure to his work by affixing his signature at the bottom of the once pristine piece of paper, which now housed many a poetic phrase, more than a few scratches, scribbles, and coffee mug stains. Read more »

November 27, 1998: “Just a half day ago I was seemingly caught in the never-ending glut that was my daily struggle. Not that I have regrets about my career decision, yet, but it has gotten quite monotonous and frustrating for me over the past few weeks. Read more »

“Janice, you know, this seems all so perfect right now. Almost too perfect.” “C’mere, silly! You can never have things TOO perfect!” Read more »

His idea? Janice snapped out of her guy-gazing spell, and wondered, what does he mean? “Idea? John, what are you talking about?” She was dying with curiosity to know about John’s mysterious “idea”. Read more »

“I wondered, why would someone do that, he has money, stability, strength. Read more »