Slow Stories

What is worse than anything even torture - betrayal. It can leave one blind to the beauty and perfection that should be obvious. This is a story about one young man who is brought back from despair by the love he had always sought.

Alif is a country quite unlike any you may have visited but a great deal like all of them. It is a land where the State runs the brothels, but where many liberties are proscribed. In this land, Ana takes up employment as a secretary in a State brothel, but finds out as much about herself as about the others who work there. She falls in love with a woman sentenced to serve in the brothel for the crime of lesbianism. Needless to say, the course of true love does not run smooth.

When you're a kid, moving to a different part of the country can be either a good or a bad thing...for Bobby Clements it was mainly good...

Maria, a widow, is forced to choose between a young, sensual paramour and an aging, lonesome widower.

She found Jesus (or so she said).

A story about knowing your lover. Can you ever understand your mate completely? Title borrowed from the GW album, (though I'm not giving it back!) and some codes are implicit. Unedited draft.

This single chapter story is part of the chain story/universe about the genie Laresa, who is contained in a ring. This story has to do with her adventures with a German intelligence officer and his old flame in the latter part of the Second World War.

What termites led me to find.

She wanted my help.