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Frenemy ...Finale ....Coming of Age

I wonder if it really happened or I dreamed it. It was nice. And tender. I'm not used to tender. It's a fossil, that word. Conditions changed and it died out. Like

Alone With the Moon ...Part 4 ...Finale

In any given moment, we have two options: to step forward into growth or to step back into safety — Abraham Maslow Markus and Mariyan After my lunch consulatation

Alone With the Moon ...Part 3 ...Over the Barriers

Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope. ― Maya Angelou Raj as Mentor I’m sitting

Alone With the Moon  ...Part 2 ...Mystic Connection

Love is not just across cultures but survival though translation. ― Yoon Jeong Kim Mariyan in a Dream This is crazy--I've gone for years without dating a woman and

Alone With the Moon ...Part 1 .... Strange Occurence

Why do people have to be this lonely? What's the point of it all? Millions of people in this world, all of them yearning, looking to others to satisfy them, yet

Taking a Chance ...Part 2 ....Once in a Lifetime

Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake. ― Henry David Thoreau Gulf Dream I’m not a risk taker and cling to the familiar, but I had to face it—I was stuck

Taking a Chance ...Part 1 ...Flying Blind

Adventure is allowing the unexpected to happen to you. How can there be any adventure, if you let somebody else―above all, a travel bureau―arrange everything

Retracing Our Steps ...Part 2 ....Reliving the Dream

He knew the body had a spiritual aspect and “spirit,” was real, because of his experiences—which, he could suppress, but not erase from memory. ― Sol Luckman Reliving

Retracing Our Steps ...Part 1 ...Magical Thinking

Memory collapses time. –Walter Benjamin Recapturing a Moment I remember thinking about Carrie and me—and the shortness of our tiny lives. I concluded, in the end,

Heart of Gold ...Part 3 ...Street Smarts

There's book smart, street smart and relationship smart. There's just too many different kinds of smarts for people to know all the smarts. ― J. B. Smoove Flo in

Heart of Gold. ...Part 2 ...Waiting Game

"I'm not a stalker." says every serial killer. ― Nalla Xavier We got a crazy perp running wild killing hookers and I'm fighting with my partner Sarah cause

Heart of Gold …Part 1 …Flawed but not Ruined

All whores have hearts of gold—it’s in the Bible. — Nella’s Pony Rescued from the Cold I’m a cop–I’m not perfect, and like everything else out on the street, I’m

Changes… …Finale …Needing to Go Home

The heart aches through nights—broken places of neglect and my only disillusionment is unspoken words I'm a country singer who's been on the road too long. It’s

Changes… …Part 1 …Tired of Running

They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself ― Andy Warhol Looking For Work “Want a drink, Hon?” She’s one of those country

Sea Fever ...Finale ...A Mystery Unfolding

She was a wanderess, bound by no boundaries, contained by no countries, tamed by no time, she was the force of nature’s course ― Roman Payne Sea Nymph It seemed

Sea Fever ...Part 2 ...The Gathering Storm

She was made of magic, secrets, and depths of the ocean. — Christy Ann Martine I failed in two careers it seemed. I left the priesthood 3 years ago and now I left

Sea Fever ...Part 1 ...Breaking Free

The artist's job is not to succumb to despair but to find an antidote for the emptiness of existence. — Woody Allen Gulf Breezes The Reverend Richard Collins. Three

Haunting Beauty ...Finale ...Confrontation

To live the best life, you should have conversations with the dead. — Zeno Confrontation If you've ever been awakened from a pleasant dream only to be menaced by

Haunting Beauty ...Part 2 ...Seeing a Ghost

I knew what was like to be seduced by the thing you hunted. Mine happened to be a more traditional seduction. At least I was still among the living. — L. K. Hamilton

Inner Enemy ...Confronting Failure

You want people lined up. You want the good guys on one side, the bad on the other. It doesn't work that way, does it? It is never that simple. ― Harlan Coben, Gone