Showing posts with label Romantic. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Romantic. Show all posts

Tuesday, June 15, 2010

Scratch Tickets and Lotteries

Scratch Tickets and Lotteries

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Romantic

12,741 words

Copyright (c) 06/12/10

Readers score  7.71

Jack's wife leaves him. Not too upset,
he goes to Henry's Bar and talks to Henry.
Buys scratch ticket. Henry sets him up
with another woman.

Tuesday, December 15, 2009

Joe Ambles and John Midden

Joe Ambles 

    And

John Midden

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

Saturday, September 19, 2009

Barbara

Barbara

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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.

Flatlander

Flatlander

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.
         

Candy

Candy

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.

Greek Salad

Greek Salad

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.

Ten Years

Ten Years

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.

His, Her's, and Ours

His, Her's, and Ours

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?

Heads and Tails

Heads And Tails

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.

I Think I'll Go Somewhere and Cry Myself To Sleep

I Think I’ll Go Somewhereand Cry Myself to Sleep

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.

Friday, September 18, 2009

Willie Peter

Willie Peter

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.

Pal

Pal

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copyright(c) 5/8/09

Romance

16,450 Word

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.

Summer School

Summer School


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.

Thursday, September 17, 2009

The O'Hara

The O’Hara


happyhugo

copyright(c) 4/2/09

A Romance

12,178 Words

Readers score  7.83

An Irish Love Story.
Feminists may take issue.