Continue On Saturdays

The gist of it is simple. I give you the start of a line/story and you continue on. This week: Liz Hampton never had a problem asking her father for money. If the tank was low on gas, no problem. If she needed change for the laundry, no problem. Tuition, car payment. No problem. It…

The gist of it is simple. I give you the start of a line/story and you continue on. This week: “I’m taking phone calls from ten until noon. After that I’ll be gone until 3.” “Where will you be?” asked my assistant Maggie. “Out.” “But where shall I tell people you are…” “Tell them I…

The gist of it is simple. I give you the start of a line/story and you continue on. This week: When you are as rich as I am it is easy to live an adventurous life. Just yesterday I took off in the company jet and went…

The gist of it is simple. I give you the start of a line/story and you continue on. This week: When you write tales about aliens and spaceships for as long as I have it doesn’t really occur to you that someday your space stories may come true, at least in part. This is the…

The gist of it is simple. I give you the start of a line/story and you continue on. This week: “What do you mean you are married?” he said. I felt like I had been punched in the gut. He stepped away from me and raised his palms toward me. “What have we been doing…