The Just NOT So Stories
Fictional stories often comic, written in a contemporary voice.
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THE CORRUPTION OF RUDI RIESENKAMPF (part 2 of 4)
THE CORRUPTION OF RUDI RIESENKAMPF (part 2 of 4) Antonella came to an end, and the guy said, 'ciao,' and something else they didn't catch... he...
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Being Frank
Frank Stimmer, a little the worse for wear, had made his way home from the Scene; his local and favourite bar. He had been there drinking wine and smoking like a dragon with friends...
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Flight Of Fancy
After lighting a cigarette, Brian Cooper relaxed his heavy mass back into the rocking chair, and blew a cloud of dream like smoke over his head.
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Letter To The Minotaur
This poem is about the fear of dying
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MESSAGE IN A BOTTLE
As I sat in this abstracted state with my eyes closed, I discovered I could conjure up those same living images in my minds eye, hear the same voice reading the poem to me over and over!
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ONE MAN'S MEAT
There has always been certain places at certain times that have attracted people like myself. It's more a state of mind that's sought -- a niche where the fuzzy edges of life over lap,
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THE ARRIVAL OF THE KING
Originally written as Chapter Five of my novel 'ADVENTURES IN A DIFFICULT WORLD' but here adapted.
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THE CORRUPTION OF RUDI RIESENKAMPF (Part 1 of 4)
*/ Roy Rawson and Larry Murrain met in 1982 . It was in March that year when they both began working as English teachers at The Piazza di Spagna...
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THE CORRUPTION OF RUDI RIESENKAMPF (part 3 of 4)
THE CORRUPTION OF RUDI RIESENKAMPF (part 3 of 4) The next morning the sun was shinning through a clean ashed sky, and over breakfast, Roy, Larry,and...
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THE CORRUPTION OF RUDI RIESENKAMPF (part 4 of 4)
THE CORRUPTION OF RUDI RIESENKAMPF (part 4) Roy and Larry decided they wouldn't complete the whole tour of the bars – planning at some point to slip...
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THE EGG THAT WOULD BE GOOD
It wouldn't take long for it to become a bohemian hangout of outlandish frothy talk, tea smoking and acid dropping freaks of the feather ' nut nirvana '
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The Sushi Bar
Baby Lemonade has a long willowy figure, thinner than a sliced rainbow. She's a mellow buttercup-babe.
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THE WATERMARK (Part 1 of 5)

Here he was, Thomas Drew, about to start his new life! He looked down as the plane banked over the blue sea, turning to come in to land at Faro Airport.
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The Watermark (part 2 of 5)

So that was how life was at 'The Love Shack,' as it had started to be known around the scene. From day today Thomas found it curiouser and curiouser!
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The Watermark (Part 3 of 5)

He didn't see Carl until the following Wednesday. They met at the school, and during a break they took a coffee and sat on the patio by a small lawn.
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Voices (part one)
A story of stories...
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Waiting
Ever since meeting her she had occupied his mind. As soon as she telephones to say she will be there, it becomes much more then mere occupation -- she burns in his mind until he sees her.
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Waiting For The Gang Or Cod Street Corner
Saturday night, out the domi, and on the street. Cod Street corner -- The scene torn off the street like some scandal from a daily-rag:
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A FRANK FARCE, OR A DAY IN A LIFE -- part one

Frank Stimmer awoke angry! He lay in bed and considered the day that was before him. He knew the kind of day it would be; for it had for him the feel of sameness of the last two months
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A Frank Farce, Or A Day In The Life -- Part Two

SEE Link to Part One: https://www.abctales.com/story/chris-whitley/frank-farce-or-day-life-par... Within a hour we find our hero standing before his...
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A Frank Farce Or A Day In The Life -- Part Three

After the zooming of the ride, that seemed to take days, finally became slower, the images in his mind now danced here and there, then settled like a...
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Vocies Part Three
'Weeks had gone by since this meeting, and still the legend's night-searches to the slums had made no progress. The places were hellish; black as a...
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The Water Mark (Part 4 Of 5)

Thomas didn't see Carl until the following Wednesday. They met at the school, and during a break they took a coffee sitting on the patio by a small...
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The Water Mark (part 5 of 5)

The W§ater Mark Part 5 of 5 He drifted slowly down to the water's edge, it was as if he were walking through the very wreckage, of what earlier had...
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The Mandrake Experience

The Mandrake Experience So he, the protagonist came with his tools on this fat black night to take his task to feed his imagination with the ambrosia...
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Voices part two
'He seems to be have been a man with fifty pounds of ideas per square inch resting on his brain ''Man is general, but Leonardo was not,''someone said...
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My Street of Memory
All of a sudden the air seemed to shift, followed by something like a sonic-boom. I remember grabbing at the arms of the chair.
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