happyhugo
Romance
41,799 Words
Copyright (c) 12/14/09
Readers score 7.77
Joe has a young man come to work for him in his auto repair
shop. The boy looks just like him. Tracing the boy's mother
takes on various ramifications, some with heartbreak and
disappointments. Much of the story involves the second
generation told by John Midden. Things seem to work out
happyhugo
Romance
9,515
Copyright (c) 11/23/09
Readers score 6.74
Kind of a dark story about an evil woman.
Abe doesn't know how evil until after justice
is served. Could be, the man he hated would
turn out to be his best friend after all.
This can’t be considered a feel-good story,
although it has some romance.
happyhugo
Romance, Getting even
9,060 Words
Copyright (c) 08/30/09
Readers score 7.20
Fishing brings about a revelation one day about
his wife. He takes it from there and, never hurrying,
deals with it. This brings his life to a happier time.
She was lucky to survive.
happyhugo
Romance, history
14,250 Words
Copyright (c) 03/08/09
A Brattleboro, Vt. Tale
Readers score 8.43
A writer goes up to Vermont looking
for ancestors. He finds one still alive.
He rescues him from a nursing home.
This is a story of lost love during
prohibition in the last century.
happyhugo
Romance/ESP
28,637 words
Copyright (c) 09/24/09
A Brattleboro, Vt Tale
Readers score 7.29
Widower is asked to go on tour with his former
sister-in-law. He doesn't like her much, but as a
favor, does go. On the trip he discovers why his
wife never got along with her sibling. He comes
to understand the animosity that happened over an
incident when they were teenagers. They rescue
a woman for a friend of theirs who is despondent.
happyhugo
Romance, cheating
11,212 Words
Copyright (c) 06/13/09
Readers score 6.53
Barbara cheated on her husband for
many years and couldn't understand
why Mark wouldn't forgive her.
I don't think she ever understood. This
is about Mark though, and his happiness.
happyhugo
Romance
13,909 Words
Copyright (c) 05/26/09
A Brattleboro, Vt. Tale
Readers score 7.36
Widowed Vermont writer
goes out into a snow storm.
He finds victims. Will this
act bring him happiness?
Flatlander: Derogatory term for Connecticut or
New York City people with pockets full of money
who come up to Vermont and start changing the
very things they were looking for in the first place.
happyhugo
Romance
13,002 Words
Copyright (c) 04/26/09
Readers score 7.67
Man finds unauthorized
tenant in a home he owns.
He hires her as a house
sitter. Things develop.
happyhugo
Romance
18,791 Words
Copyright (c) 02/28/09
Readers score 8.09
Truck driver picks up a hitchhiker
that is escaping her former husband.
Love ensues.
If you categorize a person’s life: Baby, preschool, grade school, high school, young man/woman, middle age, old age, and cut it into slices, you could write about just one slice. This is a slice of the life of Roger Thomas.
happyhugo
Romance
16,674 Words
Copyright (C) 06/22/09
Readers score 7.94
Young man meets a young woman
and falls in love. Over the years they
have problems. Eventually he becomes
guardian to two teenagers. All find
happiness.
Charlie, the Angel
happyhugo
Romance, ESP, minimal sex
A Novellas---21,484 Words
Readers score 8.27
Troubled man meets a woman, Polly, that
had a husband, Charlie. Charlie has passed on,
but still guides her. Charlie guides others that
becomes associated with the widow. Some sex
at first to set the scene. Not erotic.
copyright(c)4/14/09
happyhugo
Romance
16,796 Words
copyright (C) 09/12/09
Readers score 6.37
Two school kids make the wrong choice on prom night.
Disowned by their parents, they try to make a life for
themselves. She makes a vow that keeps them apart
for years. Is their love strong enough to survive ...
and could they get back together?
happyhugo
Romance
18,253 Words
Copyright (C) 05/02/09
Readers score 8.02
Major Jim Reynolds comes home from Bosnia
minus a part of his leg. He applies for work and
looks for love. He finds happiness and satisfaction
in his life.
happyhugo
Historical, romance
copyright (C) 3/20/09
32,611 Words
A Brattleboro, Vt Tale
Readers score 8.11
A romance based in Vermont. A crime uncovered
from the past. Some history going back 210 years.
Love between rich woman and man just getting
started. Some drama
happyhugo
Historical, romance
26,105 Words
copyright (C) 05/14/09
A Chester, Vt Tale
Readers score 7.90
The early years of "Thibadeau the Pirate,"
a character in a previous story, "Thibadeau the Pirate."
A peek into plantation life in the 1700's.
Also naval battles during the Revolutionary War.
Mostly historical but a romance as well
happyhugo
Romance
31,852 Words
copyright (C) 04/20/09
A Brattleboro, Vt Tale
Readers score 7.92
Man agrees to marry childhood friend as a favor.
Later they divorce and he loses his child.
He uses a song to get through his lonely nights.
Does he regain what he has lost?
Another love story set in Vermont.
happyhugo
A Romance, some tears, some joy.
6,447 Words
copyright (C) 04/08/09
A Brattleboro,Vt. Tale
Readers score 7.60
Two neighbors make a deal.
Sad beginning.
happyhugo
Romance, Cheating
Copyright (C) 06/01/09
A Short Story---12,810 Words
Readers score 7.36
When their mother leaves their father,
the twins set about finding someone to
make him happy. Turned down by their
first choice, they try again.
Copyright(c)6/1/09
happyhugo
Romance, Cheating
21,558
Copyright (C) 05/21/09
Readers score 6.54
Man is married and then divorced when
wife cheats. Years later and married to another,
he and his ex-wife are thrown together.
Story of how two families deal with issues.
Starts in Brattleboro, Vt and moves West.
happyhugo
Romance
5,224 Words
Copyright (C) 06/07/09
Readers score 6.32
Married couple have a bump in their
twenty-year marriage. He is hurt and
blind-sided by what she proposes.
happyhugo
copyright(c) 5/8/09
Romance
16,450 Words
Readers score 6.73
Two men leave university. One hopes
to never see the other again. But will he?
Doesn't matter for he finds love.
happyhugo
(Read the last story first
before this one. This is a continuation)
Romance, Tears
12,012 Words
Copyright (C) 08/23/09
Readers score 7.85
Many of the same characters as those in "Summer
School." There are some tears, some drama and yes,
some romance in this story. Hank Rawlings is still
the teacher.
happyhugo
copyright(c)8/20/09
Romance
21,593 Words
Readers score 7.83
Hank, a teacher, has students for the summer.
With company coming, he needs his house cleaned.
He hires a homeless woman for the job.
They find they work well together.
He, the woman and the students draw close.
happyhugo
copyright(c) 4/2/09
A Romance
12,178 Words
Readers score 7.83
An Irish Love Story.
Feminists may take issue.
happyhugo
copyright(c) 3/27/09
Western, historical, romance
15,635 words
Readers score 8.11
Gunfighter decides on a different line of
work after taking out his brother's killers.
Over the next fifty years the gun continues
to take lives
