Gary Ives real life stories very short stories Monday, March 4, 2024 Too Much Knowledge by Gary Ives <i>An anatomy student recalls being thrilled and traumatised by an extremely intimate encounter. </i><br><br>Fifty years ago, and still I think about Him; the Him whose real name I will never know, but the Him with whom I became more intimate than with any other man. Ever. <br><br>Anatomy class met twice weekly. Our class of 40 shared ten cadavers, each assigned to four students. Erla Johanssen, twins Sven and Bridget… Read more Labels: Gary Ives real life stories very short stories 13 comments:
Gary Ives real life stories short stories Friday, December 22, 2023 Take Me Home by Gary Ives <i> Pisquasistan Indian Charlie is called back from his exile in Canada to see off his dying father.</i><br><br>Charlie's sister Agnus's letter said that their 87-year-old father, Walter Two Hearts, was bad sick and wanted him to come down from Canada to help him. Agnus, diabetic and wheelchair bound, could not - or at any rate would not - help Walter. As a born-again Christian she had no use for her d… Read more Labels: Gary Ives real life stories short stories 5 comments:
Gary Ives real life stories very short stories Friday, February 17, 2023 Cast Your Bread Upon the Water by Gary Ives <i>Gary Ives' character tells of a fateful secret that steered the course of his family's life.</i><br><br>Please realize this is a secret I've kept for years. <br><br>We - our mother, my twin Michael, and I - lived in St. Anthony's parish. When Mike and I were just seven our father, a fire-fighter, died just before Thanksgiving after months of hospitalization due to burns suffered pulling survivors fro… Read more Labels: Gary Ives real life stories very short stories 9 comments:
criminal stories Gary Ives pick of the month short stories Friday, November 12, 2021 At Home with Arthur Quick by Gary Ives <i>Julie's life takes an unexpected course when her father shelters a charismatic stranger; by Gary Ives.</i><br><br> Late one windy Nebraskan April afternoon in 1970, when I was 17, my father's tractor came slowly up our lane pulling an old Plymouth station wagon at the end of a muddy chain. Behind the steering wheel was a little old man with white hair wearing very thick glasses. The car had died at th… Read more Labels: criminal stories Gary Ives pick of the month short stories 5 comments:
Gary Ives long stories real life stories Friday, July 23, 2021 Lost Alohas by Gary Ives <i>A career Navy sailor falls in love with a Micronesian island, and a Peace Corps woman living there; by Gary Ives.</i><br><br> In the spring of 1967, I was Chief Engineman aboard the destroyer escort USS Tinker. From Pearl Harbor we were to begin a Westpac cruise, normally six months of exercises and patrols around Japan, Taiwan, Guam, and the Philippines. On this cruise however, we were tasked with a couple o… Read more Labels: Gary Ives long stories real life stories 2 comments:
criminal stories Gary Ives long stories Monday, October 26, 2020 When Does a Gambler Stop? by Gary Ives <i>A harmless prank on a work colleague sets inveterate gambler Ray Carter on a rewarding path of criminality; by Gary Ives. </i><br><br> Luck, like the weather, always changes. It's inevitable, a fact. Ask any gambler. Me for instance. Much of this story is true, however names and places are changed as well as descriptions of various documents. You'll see why. <br><br>It started six years ago as a prank. Quite … Read more Labels: criminal stories Gary Ives long stories 5 comments:
criminal stories Gary Ives medium length stories Friday, March 6, 2020 I Felt the Earth Move by Gary Ives <i>Gary Ives' character persuades her grandmother to tell her surprising life story.</i><br><br> The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7th 1941 would take the lives of over 2000 sailors, soldiers and civilians but would also alter the paths of nations and the lives millions, some for the better, some for the worse. Who could have predicted that attack was actually the beginning of drastic changes … Read more Labels: criminal stories Gary Ives medium length stories 9 comments:
Gary Ives medium length stories real life stories Monday, November 4, 2019 Boys by Gary Ives <i>Two smart, caring kids with very different backgrounds become such firm friends that surely nothing could keep them apart; by Gary Ives. </i><br><br> Noah entered the art room having to pee really bad. Before taking his seat he asked Miss Wilson for permission to go to the bathroom. "You've had plenty of time to take care of that between classes, so please just sit down." He had tried to go af… Read more Labels: Gary Ives medium length stories real life stories 3 comments:
Gary Ives real life stories short stories Monday, April 22, 2019 Good With Animals by Gary Ives <i>Emma Goldfarb, a high-flying commercial artist, has almost given up finding a partner who matches her intellect and ambition when she meets Glenn, and discovers a new kind of peace; by Gary Ives.</i><br><br> Em glanced through the window over the sink to see Glenn down on one knee rubbing Tuck's huge head while talking soft and low to Nip. The oxen were still yoked. She knew he wouldn't come in to ea… Read more Labels: Gary Ives real life stories short stories 6 comments:
criminal stories Gary Ives pick of the month short stories Friday, August 10, 2018 Divine Guidance by Gary Ives <i>When Mexican teenager Tomás is struck blind, he must find a new way to help support his family; by Gary Ives.</i><br><br> My blindness came rapidly. Our house, like all the houses in our village, lays under a high conical roof of reed thatch and tessellated palm fronds. Tree rats nest between the thatch and the palm. Other than occasional nighttime squeals the rats are not a bother. The year I turned fifteen… Read more Labels: criminal stories Gary Ives pick of the month short stories 4 comments:
Gary Ives real life stories short stories Sunday, April 3, 2016 In Her Purse by Gary Ives <i>The Chief Groundskeeper of the luxurious Rio Plata Spa and Hotel recounts the story of a particularly troublesome guest; by Gary Ives.</i><br><br> First let me tell you of May Maloy Spooner then you may make up your own mind about this woman. <br><br> May Maloy Spooner, one of the hundreds of Las Vegas whores, had no trouble catching Señor Rigby's eye. You would no doubt agree that like many of her sisters in th… Read more Labels: Gary Ives real life stories short stories 5 comments:
creepy stories criminal stories Gary Ives short stories Sunday, August 23, 2015 Just a Spoonful of Horror by Gary Ives <i>A con in a horrible prison plots revenge against a fellow inmate; by Gary Ives.</i><br><br> Of the boys at the Malloy Farm, Mickey Markham was by far the prettiest with blond hair, fair skin, full lips, blue eyes and long eyelashes like a girl's. Let me say that here pretty counts. This he traded on among other boys but especially with the warden and screws. He could smooth talk candy bars and cigarettes… Read more Labels: creepy stories criminal stories Gary Ives short stories 3 comments:
Gary Ives real life stories short stories Tuesday, April 21, 2015 Tiny Beatles in My Head by Gary Ives <i>When a traumatised WWII soldier returns home to find his wife dead and his daughter taken away, he seeks solace in solitude; by Gary Ives.</i><br><br> Andrew Shellcross came back from the war a broken man. Three years of starvation and brutality as a prisoner of war, working in Japanese coal mines, had squeezed and reduced him to little more than a pitiful six stone entity that thought of little other than f… Read more Labels: Gary Ives real life stories short stories 4 comments:
Gary Ives real life stories short stories Sunday, November 23, 2014 Konichiwa, Mr. Miyashita by Gary Ives <i>An ungrateful Baby Boomer rants about his parents boring stories about their past; by Gary Ives.</i><br><br> I suppose just about everyone of my generation, that's us Boomers, would admit that his parents had it rougher. But so what? Mom and Dad both grew up on farms during the depression. Instead of heading to college after high school Dad was drafted two days after his wedding and sent off to the war s… Read more Labels: Gary Ives real life stories short stories 8 comments:
fantastic stories funny stories Gary Ives short stories Sunday, September 14, 2014 The Alexandrian Shift by Gary Ives <i>Gary Ives imagines a world in which Alexander the Great returns as an Olympic god in 1955 and uses television to spread tolerance and peace throughout the world.</i><br><br> As Alexander the Great lay dying in Babylon gods were summoned to Mt. Olympus by Zeus. "Well there you have it. We imbue this mortal with a healthy dollop of our better attributes: strength, wit, an array of intelligences, and this … Read more Labels: fantastic stories funny stories Gary Ives short stories 4 comments:
criminal stories Gary Ives medium length stories pick of the month Sunday, May 25, 2014 Father Bag Man by Gary Ives <i>Gary Ives tells the story of a good man's rise to power in this incendiary indictment of the Catholic Church.</i><br><br> <i>Radix malorum ex cupiditas.</i> <br> The path leading Philip to the plush apartment overlooking Central Park had begun fifty years earlier at the seminary of the Apostolic Order of the Venerable Saint Actius of Jerusalem, when he had awakened in the middle of the night with the hand of Monsigno… Read more Labels: criminal stories Gary Ives medium length stories pick of the month 1 comment:
Gary Ives real life stories short stories Sunday, November 3, 2013 Wal-Lotto by Gary Ives <i>Gary Ives' chillingly feasible glimpse into the power of conscience-free corporate greed.</i><br><br> I'm not a gambler but my girlfriend Irene is. What's in it for me? Well, win or lose, a trip to the casino always heats up that lovely little love box of hers. Like I said, I'm not a gambler, so generally I sit at the bar with a Kino card or drift in and out of the nickel slots; I'm 10… Read more Labels: Gary Ives real life stories short stories 7 comments:
funny stories Gary Ives pick of the month short stories Friday, June 7, 2013 When Teachers Lie by Gary Ives <i>A feisty schoolboy defies his teacher and has to face the consequences, but he won't take them lying down, in Gary Ives' comic story.</i><br><br> Carl opened his notebook and began doodling. He drew a frowning stick woman with a big head and bangs like Mrs. Binker who was at her desk in front of the class reading aloud to the class from the textbook about the Roman Republic blah, blah, blah, Julius … Read more Labels: funny stories Gary Ives pick of the month short stories 6 comments:
funny stories Gary Ives short stories Sunday, March 3, 2013 Museum of Angry Women by Gary Ives <i>A family on a roadtrip make an ill-advised stop at a roadside attraction in Gary Ives' short comic story.</i><br><br> Jenny, my sister, and I in the back seat of Dad's old Jeep Cherokee had been quiet across the entire state of Missouri. It was hot as hell and the Cherokee had no air conditioning. Dad had promised Mom and us girls that the trip to California would be fun; in his words, "A jour… Read more Labels: funny stories Gary Ives short stories 2 comments:
criminal stories funny stories Gary Ives very short stories Sunday, January 13, 2013 Pedicab by Gary Ives <i>Gary Ives' characterful pedicab driver gets a dream fare.</i><br><br> I won't tell you which city the events in this story occurred. It was Christmas time, someplace far away, okay? You'll understand. Call me Andy. I'm a 23 year old healthy dude and a licensed pedicab operator which means I haul fat-assed tourists around in a fucking basket. The dozen pedicabs which are the company I once … Read more Labels: criminal stories funny stories Gary Ives very short stories 2 comments:
