Richard R : 644 books

Jay grows up to be a really good engineer and a not so good politician. As a result, he gets exiled to a remote field site. Worse yet, he has to work for Tina, who's a good politician, if not much good at anything else. Jay manages to play a bit of politics. Which comes in handy, as the project to...

It’s leaving day. Linda sleeps late. Her roommates have left for work. Linda doesn’t have a job anymore. She gets up and goes through the usual morning routine, taking her time.Linda then uses the washer dryer, one last time, does a bit of ironing and then packs her suitcases.Linda then lugs the...

Jess Ward spent his childhood in the Point Loma area of San Diego. Trouble then forced him to relocate and he wound up in Mexico. The Mexican police raided his work place and Jess escaped. Jess is now back in San Diego. But a Mexican drug cartel is looking for him. Jess has a good day job in San Diego,...

Jud jumps in, “I graduated from college and I was then hired by the Aardvark Technical Corporation, as a Computer Programmer III. The job title was awarded only after I had completed a battery of technical tests, with outstanding scores.” The woman muses, “Yes. You completed a slightly different...

Little Howie tells the guy, “We got jumped by four punks. One of them had a gun. Jimmy used a couple of single sticks and maybe saved my life.” An-Hing thinks for a few moments and then says to me, “You can’t just go around hitting punks with single sticks. You need to join our Kung Fu gym...

A college boy works nights as a houseman in a backgammon club. He's a very strong backgammon player. He has to be, that's how he earns his living. He gets rented out as an opponent for a very wealthy, very good local backgammon player. College boy then crushes the wealthy amateur in a one on one match. The...

My wife and I are just starting out. Money is really tight. I drop the car off at a repair shop that I use. I then walk, maybe a mile, to work. Mid morning, I get the bad news. The transmission is in need of a $600 repair. My wife and I don’t happen to have a spare $600 just lying around. We have...

Barry meets Bridget only because he won some scholastic awards then and got interviewed and photographed, with Bridget sort of hanging on him. Later, after college, Barry winds up working for the man that Bridget marries. Bridget's husband then dies in an airplane crash. Bridget's hair then dies due...

College student Jim meets and then marries Jill, the hottest babe in school. Jim graduates and then gets a job out on the west coast. He and Jill find a bargain house, buy it and settle in. Then layoffs stalk Jim's company and Jim and Jill are forced to either partner swap with Jim's boss and his...

I get my car back, from the government people and I drive home. It appears that I’ll need to relocate. Then again, the government people can probably find me, anywhere I go. I fix a huge meal and eat, as I gather the things that I’ll need for tonight’s assignment. I then go for a walk along...

My name is Regina. I'm a senior, enrolled at Central High School. Right now, there are some good and some bad things going on in my life. Let's start with the good stuff and then the bad stuff. Before I ever got into high school, I was a model. I went to an interview with an agency and they liked...

Then, into my high school world comes Margo. Margo is from some far distant place where they apparently teach advanced things like reading without moving the lips, reading books with more words than pictures, stuff like that. Margo can actually carry on a meaningful conversation, often using words...

I then tell her, “I bled air out of your tire. I'm risking my life by telling you this. The FBI is closing in on Billy. Come tomorrow, Billy will be in jail or worse. You need to avoid Billy tonight. Fake some sort of girl medical problem, stay home and don't answer the phone.”Laura...

I then try to avoid Jean and I walk down the hallway, on the other side of the work area from where Jean's office is.Jean is camped out in a management office that I walk by and she waves me in. She then finishes up her phone conversation and then glares at me. “Do you realize that this company...