Midlife Stories

Working on my first collection of poetry. Some poems were written years ago, some more recently.

The story of a old man trying to find himself and make everything right a fresh chance to start over.

Are you tired from traveling places to places but never found what you are looking for? You do not even know what you are looking for either? Are you fed up with material things, only to end up feeling empty and longing for more and more? Someone hurt you? Yes we are all hurt. That's the reason why this lady wrote her story. You are never alone. 🏝

A tale of real Biking for all us Sunday morning GP Moto Motorcyclists.

As i get older I continue to debate who I am and where I am. I find myself thinking about life debating if I am where i should be and if I am achieving below what i should. I also feel as I get older, I get more and more confused in the short term. This is a middle aged man rambling about life even though he knows he has it pretty good already.

What happens when your settled life seems sour? Do you take the half empty glass and drink it down, or do you smash it on the ground and demand another drink from the bartender? Gillum Kaosky faces this choice day after day, moment by moment.

10 days before she turns 40, she breaks down. As panic and anxiety take hold, she discovers that soul searching and figuring out who you are is a never-ending journey.

In Glancing Middle there was a new girl that goes by the name of Haley Jackson. But a popular girl named Nancy Curly. Is bullying her.

biking 101

every white woman ever but not because it's only one white woman- 𝚍𝚎𝚕𝚘𝚛𝚒𝚌𝚎

The following extract is of the first three chapters of my book. Set against the backdrop of a hypothetical global nuclear conflict at the beginning of the 1980s, The Observer follows Dennis, a member of the UK Royal Observer Corp, a military voluntary civil defence organisation whose wartime job was to monitor nuclear explosions and gather data for fallout predictions. With war imminent as the Soviets and the USA battle in the Middle East, the story opens a few days before hostilities break out and with the UK descending into chaos as marshal law, road blocks and riots dominate the landscape. Between shifts in his bunker, Dennis battles with life in pre-war Britain as well as a conflict of opinion with a wife who is determined that family should come before duty. Lost in the regret of boredom and estrangement from his brother and now deceased father, Dennis disagrees. The terrifying screech of the sirens sound as the world is plunged into nuclear war. Now Dennis fulfils his duty alongside his two companions, logging explosions within their vicinity. Disillusioned by the reality of war, his companions protest as Dennis reports every explosion to Group Control until it too is destroyed, leaving them with no further role to fulfil. Each person now faces their own demons as they wait for the fallout to clear. Dennis in particular has to fight his history of childhood failure. One month later Dennis emerges alone from the bunker, riddled with guilt as to why he abandoned his wife and child at such a critical time. Determined to find his family, Dennis travels across the ravaged countryside. He returns to his village to find it has been evacuated and with evidence that even this far from the cities the effect of blasts has left its mark.

When a small town in New Mexico wakes up to find one of its banks robbed overnight, it doesn't take long for Lieutenant Gorton to identify a suspect. Although the bank's own longtime loan officer does not strike anyone as a potential criminal, Gorton suspects that the quiet employee is behind the robbery. Plus, the soft-spoken dependable man seems to have gone through a dramatic transformation recently that he managed to hide from everyone around him. But as the pieces of the puzzle begin snapping together to form a crisp picture, Gorton is bothered by one problem: the pieces are snapping together a tad too easily.

Stuck with her old life in New York, acclaimed writer and journalist goes undercover to live her new life in Italy. Living a new identity as a little farm owner. Everything seemed to be working until she encounter Matteo. A new faces in town looking for a job, and a meaning of his own life.

Aggie has spent three decades quietly in the village of Balmha, tending to her routines and observing life around her. But when she discovers something extraordinary in the old boat shed by the loch, her world - and her heart - are quietly transformed. Can one unexpected encounter awaken a life so carefully lived?

These are fragments, whispers, and shadows that exist alongside The Abyss of Despair. Bonus content, diary entries, and unseen perspectives that deepen Elias's world - shared here for readers who want to walk further into the silence. The full story of Elias's descent and fragile search for meaning lives in the novel The Abyss of Despair.

Jesse Jo Parker escapes her previous life as a doctor's wife and returns to her grandmother's home town of Harrington Falls, Ohio. She buys her grandmother's cottage, the McNeil Cottage, and starts following her long-held dream of opening a bed and breakfast. Her path; however, crosses that of her former fiancé, Jake Kieran, who brought nothing but pain and tragedy in her life. But can she move past the pain to follow her heart or will Jake just hurt her once again? Or should she give Sean Downs a chance? Or just focus on her life and forget romance altogether...