Stories

A short Christmas story about a special elf that saves Christmas for a sad family.

Great things are happening in the city's 'Big Three' department stores, and at one in particular, circumstances are bringing an unlikely group of people together. But the thing is, none of us know it's 'history' while we're living it.

It's nearing the Fourth of July when Charlie and Kip get a jolt of bad news: something has happened to their friends! And off they go on a rescue mission...and a learning experience with new magics, that has all of them reeling!

Charlie and Kippy find that Valentine's Day doesn't always work out the way they expect it to.

Missed posting this one here at that holiday, but it's required for continuity of the series.

Charlie and Kippy are planning a casual Fourth of July evening: pizza, getting together with friends, and then fireworks after the sun goes down. Little do they know that they are about to have visitors, and be off on a new adventure that takes them farther from home than they have ever been before!

Short Stories with an aim to skew, be askew and skewer – but all told from the heart. Awww

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Larry was the son of a famous opera singer and a well-known conductor, but his passion in life was to be a medical scientist. However, when the pandemic waylaid his plans to go to the Bronx High School of Science, instead he applied to LaGuardia, New York's premier public high school of the arts. Just as an intermezzo is a short musical bridge, Intermezzo brings together characters from other stories in the New York Stories series while filling in some gaps. Told from the point of view of Larry's girlfriend, Robin, he learns that sometimes the shortest path to one's goals isn't the straightest one.

Stone Carroll doesn't like Christmas, not one bit.

Ayden worked hard to make a better life for his son; he was so close to being done with school, then he could get one good job instead of working two jobs and studying at night. Then they could move out of their tiny apartment, into a nicer place, and have a decent schedule. He just wants to give Anthony a better life, all the things a little boy wants and needs, and spend quality time with his son. Of course he'd ask Santa for a dog for Christmas.

The Lumberjack & The Professor

A college professor rents a lakefront house in the Minnesota woods. His next door neighbor's a friendly lumberjack. When racism raises its ugly head, the two come together to battle someone one of them considers a friend. Will the two triumph and develop a relationship?