Thursday, September 22, 2011
Monday, August 1, 2011
The man, his friend and the water bottle
August 1st, 2011 | 
Author: A Poem for Animal Lovers
Every morning whether the sky is blue or peachThe man and his friend would walk south on the sandy beach
Carrying with them a water bottle for the trip
Him on the left, her on the right, their positions never flip
Her, older and wise
Oblivious to potential friend or lover
Him, his sad heart in disguise
Wishing they could last forever
Emptying the water bottle on their short walk
No one ever heard him talk
Walking slowly beside him
She is always attentive to his rare whim
Seeing them leaving the trail today
They will be back, people opine
Knowing her friendship will never sway
He wished one more walk with his faithful canine
Friday, July 22, 2011
Among the Butterlies
Chapter One
Sample-Chapter One
When Amanda Roberts left St. Matthews Hospital that evening, she was exhausted. As an emergency room nurse for the past three years, she had grown accustomed to the fast-paced environment where she worked. She had just finished another twelve hour shift and wondered if, at twenty-eight years old, she was getting too old for this kind of work. She knew that it was silly to think like this. But she had been feeling silly lately. She and Jeffrey Hayden were to be married in six weeks and she could not help herself. She knew she was lucky. She was to be married to someone that she had known all her life and that she had been in love with since high school.
Indeed, Amanda and Jeffrey had met when Amanda was barely was six years old after she changed schools, when her adoptive parents moved to an upscale beachfront neighborhood in Long Island. Jeffrey, who was the same age as Amanda and who was a student at Amanda’s new school, always said that he fell in love with her the first day he saw her in the classroom.
For her part, Amanda only remembered meeting Jeffrey for the first time when Jeffrey’s parents threw a kid’s birthday party for Jeffrey and invited all of the kids in Jeffrey’s class. Except for eating cake with Jeffrey and the other children, Amanda barely remembered what happened at the party. Soon after the party however, Amanda’s and Jeffrey’s parents became very close friends and would often invite one another out to dinners and parties. As a result, Jeffrey and Amanda, being the only children of their parents, wound up spending a lot of time together, often sharing even the same babysitter. Consequently, Amanda and Jeffrey grew to become best friends. It wasn’t until she was a junior in high school that Jeffrey confessed his love for Amanda.
As Amanda’s mind wandered through the events of the day when she had also admitted her love to Jeffrey, a tune from a Billy Joel song was coming through her headphones that plugged into the smart phone that she was holding. As she sat in the crowded subway train that would take her to her condominium in downtown Manhattan, she began humming with Billy Joel, “I love You Just the Way You Are”. Although Amanda noticed that the people seated next to her on the train seemed to disapprove of her singing, Amanda didn’t care. She was allowed to sing badly for once. She was a woman in love.
When her mother’s call came, interrupting the tune, Amanda jerked as if she was being brought back suddenly to the present from a fantasy-filled dream. As she unplugged the headphones from the smart phone to answer the call, she didn’t realize that it would be a call that would haunt her for the rest of her life.
Among The Daisies
Among the Daisies
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Among the Daisies is now out. The story is set in Key Largo, and features Stephanie Marshall, who is engaged to be married to Gregory Roberts, Miami’s influential District Attorney. Although Stephanie finally realizes that the man she really loves is Kevin Dupont, she had turned Kevin down two years ago. Will Kevin ever come back to her?
However, Stephanie’s love life is the least of her problems. Stacy Marshall, Stephanie’s wealthy and powerful former sister-in-law, is out to get Stephanie and has vowed to destroy her. To accomplish her sinister plan, Stacy has Stephanie fired from her job, has her followed, her phone tapped, her computer hacked, her condo broken into and much more. Stacy also recruits a powerful ally to help her destroy Stephanie: Stephanie’s own powerful fiancé.
Will Stephanie be able to stop Stacy before it’s too late? Will Stephanie find happiness with Kevin?
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