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On Friday morning I rolled over and looked at the clock; it was only 5:00 AM. I was relieved to see I had another hour to sleep so I pulled the blanket over my head and tried to drift off. I could hear the shower running in the background and tried to tune it out. Continue reading My Life As I Knew It – Chapter 6 On Tuesday I checked the balance on my one and only credit card of that time and found out it wasn’t as bad as I expected. If I was going to do everything right this time around, that meant I needed to start new in every way including investing in a professional wardrobe in order Continue reading My Life As I Knew It – Chapter 5 After spending Sunday with my brother and Damian, words cannot begin to describe how depressed I was to not wake up on Monday morning next to Greg in the bedroom of our New York apartment. Damian came home from Santa Monica Sunday afternoon and would not stop talking about the “awesome” time he had with Continue reading My Life As I Knew It – Chapter 4 I was happy to hear that Damian was going to be gone Saturday night. His brother who lived in Washington was visiting Santa Monica with some friends and he invited Damian to spend the weekend with them. I just assumed his brother was paying Damian’s way. I was meeting up with Jim that night and Continue reading My Life As I Knew It – Chapter 3 About an hour later I was pulling in to the parking lot of the Dana Point Harbor, about forty miles south of Fullerton. For the first few years I lived in California I came to this spot often to get away from everyone and everything, do some thinking and just be. I’m not exactly sure Continue reading My Life As I Knew It – Chapter 2 Everybody thinks about going back in time and what they would or would not do differently. You can protest all you like. You can say ‘there’s no point in thinking about it’ or ‘the past is the past, move on’ or ‘if I had done things differently I may not have met my wonderful husband/wife’ Continue reading My Life As I Knew It – Chapter 1 This is an excerpt from a book I wrote. In the book, a group of high school kids who are barely friends or barely know each other, form a band. Through their love of music, they discover things about themselves and each other that they wouldn’t have known otherwise. This chapter is near the beginning, Continue reading Less Than Perfect – excerpt Chapter 4 I remember how her eyes flashed when we met. She had a fiery spirit and I believe that is what attracted me to her. That first night we went to her home and made slow, passionate love and I believed I had met the fabled “one”. The sex was great, but that wasn’t the reason. Continue reading Nell Sometimes the prayer you need answered the most isn’t your own. Considering Phil describes how a man in crisis finds redemption through a selfless child’s innocent prayer and how a peculiar stranger sent with a message changes his life forever. Continue reading Considering Phil Prologue and First Chapter April was Louis Dumkowski’s favorite month.
Editors’ Choice Award It hadn’t always been so; in fact, he’d never had a favorite month before. There were months he didn’t like. January, for instance, because he always started it with a horrible hangover from some New Year’s Eve party, cold and shivering on someone’s bathroom Continue reading A Young Man’s Fancy |
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