7 Mar 2024 1770 readers
The road is long and sometimes lonely.
Joe Buck knows that company can be found on the side of the road.
He meets all kinds of boys with all kinds of stories, but he never met a boy quite like Nick.
Turning him every which way but loose, Nick is the tornado Joe Buck tries to ride.
Topics: Romance, Sex, Trucker, Love
6 Feb 2024 87 readers
Clay gets his wings.
Dylan gets another new camera.
The Cove is back to normal. Each week more people find Ivan's Cove Campgrounds.
Clay goes to Washington thinking he is to wax poetic on the environment.
A doctor who spoke to the senate about a new disease killing people of disease that don't kill anyone. It's a blood disease. It's a gay disease. It's deadly and no one wants to hear about ...
Topics: Fiction, Mystery & Crime
5 Feb 2024 57 readers
Campaigning was part of the landscape.
Clay was learning to fly and Harry talked him through his landings.
Harry was already eyeing a new Beachcraft and he was teaching Clay to fly the Apache.
Dylan gets an 8mm camera and he can't wait to film things in motion.
Lucy wins a seat in the Florida Legislature.
!980 ends with a blow that has everyone listening to the Beatles all over again.
Topics: Fiction, Mystery & Crime
4 Feb 2024 66 readers
Everyone can't wait to see Popov.
Popov can't wait to go home.
Clay has a birthday and he finds a new Buick parked in his way at the Conservancy house.
Ivan thieves and he goes with Clay on speaking engagements.
Clay's reception knocks his socks off. Ivan realizes his lover is a real big deal.
Topics: Fiction, Mystery & Crime
3 Feb 2024 65 readers
The worst is over.
Popov receives visits as he heals.
People at the cove enjoy the peace and quiet that has once again come to the cove.
Clay let's Ivan drive home from Tampa. He's almost sure they'll arrive alive and in record time.
Topics: Fiction, Mystery & Crime
21 Jan 2024 75 readers
Clay's car won't start. Ivan lends him his. Kramer offers his assist.
Popov finally gets what he needs from his prisoner. He takes him with him to be sure he's not lying.
As Kramer is fascinated by the people at the cove and their stories, Popov gets shot leaping onto Big Carlos' boat. Popov makes the gangster pay for shooting him, and Captain Tito has to finish the job and deliver the kingpin ...
Topics: Fiction, Mystery & Crime
20 Jan 2024 82 readers
Clay's classic Chevy hits a snag. Ivan teases him about buy a good car, like his Buick.
Popov toys with Kramer. The FBI agent can't believe Popov took his prisoner and won't give him back. Popov is smart. He fills him with Russian Vodka.
Kramer complains. Popov get his two best men to go get Big Carlos and save the FBI the trouble. Ivan keeps Karmer entertained by telling him the story of ...
Topics: Fiction, Mystery & Crime
14 Jan 2024 93 readers
The grand opening of the Cove Campgrounds ended on a high note. Those in the know, who watched Popov remove the bad guy, are waiting for his return. FBI agent Kramer can't believe he let Popov take the guy away from him. It was Popov's cove. Harry wants to get Clay in classier wheels. Everyone waits for the next shoe to fall in the cove.
Topics: Fiction, Mystery & Crime
13 Jan 2024 80 readers
Ivan finishes creating the beach at the cove. His Cove Campgrounds are ready to open. Everyone is there for the grand opening. Popov has everything under control as he expects trouble. As the people flock to see Ivan's new improved cove. When the mobster makes his move, he's rushed away before anyone is the wiser, Popov is Ivan's partner, but this his cove. No one knows this better than the ...
Topics: Fiction
12 Jan 2024 90 readers
It's Ivan's birthday. Clay takes Ivan to buy matching rings. Being his birthday, Dylan goes with them and he picks out the rings. He picks out two wedding rings. The clerk and Ivan & Clay are shocked, Dylan isn't. When he's told they're wedding rings, Dylan points at them again. "These."
The love Clay and Ivan feel for each other is immense. Dylan knows that. Clay's parents add their approval. ...
Topics: Fiction, Romance, Love
11 Jan 2024 885 readers
As a cross county trucker, sometimes you get in over your head before you realize your riding the razor's edge. My adventure in being the final truck to cross over Buffalo Creek and make it up the hill on the other side, was one of those times. Driving all the time, many actions are automatic., and when a fellow trucker calls you on the radio to say, "I'm shooting that bridge. I'm making it up ...
Topics: Fiction, Travel, Trucker
25 Dec 2023 113 readers
Clay is a real big deal and his reception as he campaigns for Harry is monumental. Clay knows they aren't there to see him, but they all know who he is. For his lover and his son his reception is eye opening. Everyone knows Clay is Harry's man in the Gulf.
Harry knows that no one in the cove is safe until the bad guys are caught. He makes sure Clay, Ivan, Dylan and Tag are safe as Popov is told ...
Topics: Fiction, Relationship, Family
24 Dec 2023 82 readers
LClay's work at the cove goes on.
Ivan is armed with a gun he brought back from Southeast Asia.
Dylan is amazed by what he didn't know about his father.
Harry is running for office.
Clay stands up for Harry and gets his feet wet in Harry McCallister's other business.
Topics: Fiction
23 Dec 2023 267 readers
Angus goes to tell Dolores, Tony's gone.
Running into her son and his lover at Ocean Beach, where he's directed. is a bonus.
Watching Cory and Jesse surf, he's finally got his man. Of course his employer, Dolores Wade, knows where Cory is. He's living in a beach cabin beside her beach cabin.
Angus can't help but admire young love. Cory is safely home and Angus doesn't even need to go tell ...
Topics: Fiction, Mystery & Crime, Love
22 Dec 2023 246 readers
Cory is in the wind again. When Angus got to the Interstate, he wondered which was Cory went.
When a kid sticks out his thumb, the possibilities are endless. Defeated, he knows he was as close to Cory as he was likely to get. ng in. Angus has the atention of the FBI concerning a heist of valuable coins. They met at the junction of Tony Wade and the New Jersey mob. Thanks isn't enough to console ...
Topics: Fiction, Mystery & Crime
21 Dec 2023 87 readers
Men cluster around the burned section of dock. A diver goes into the water and comes out with a gun that goes with the bullet removed from Tag. No, no one was interested in another colored boy being shot, but the bullet from Tag came from a gun that had put bullets in more than one dead guy.
The FBI is on ehte job. Clay runs into one who is right out of the movies. He's worried and amused.
The ...
Topics: Fiction, Mystery & Crime
20 Dec 2023 227 readers
There are multiple sightings of Cory and his friend.
His friend is leaving an impression on the people who have seen them. Cory always stays in the background. His companion, Leon, has attracted some attention when he picks up a girl in a bar.
Lola, lo, lo, lo, Lola, but what I can't understand, she walks like a woman and talks like a man, Lola.
Rany, the hotel dick, leads Angus to their room, ...
Topics: Fiction, Mystery & Crime
19 Dec 2023 1067 readers
The Horatio Arnolds horse farm is a fine place to raise young men. After losing their son, they find comfort in boys they take in. A horse farm is a place where young boys thrive.
Michael has been looking at a sleigh in the top of the barn for several years. This year he decides to take it down. He has an idea of what to do with it to make Christmas even more delightful .
There most certainly ...
Topics: Fiction, Christmas
19 Dec 2023 252 readers
The break in the case finally comes when Cory and his companion come out of the Oregon woods.
Cory cashes in a coin and his trail is suddenly a mile wide.
Angus is on a plane to Portland, Oregon shortly after noon. He rents a car and makes the drive to where Cory cashed in one of the expensive coins. Sitting in a restaurant where the boys ate, a waitress was happy to identify Cory's picture. ...
Topics: Fiction, Mystery & Crime
18 Dec 2023 1014 readers
Joe Buck picks up Monty in a raging snow storm at the summit of the Sierra Nevada.
Joe is on a run to Savannah that absolutely, positively, must be there on time.
Icy roads and time constraints don't stop Joe from falling in love at Christmas time.
My contribution to Christmas lore. Merry, Merry, and Happy, Happy to you all.
Topics: Fiction, Romance, Christmas
10 Dec 2023 92 readers
Popov returns to the cove after the holidays. The angry Russian is seeing red. He is large and in charge of his cove. His first job, protect Clay and Ivan. The FBI is coming and Popov warns them not to get in his way. The mad Russian is going to protect his cove and catch the people trying to destroy it.
Topics: Fiction, Mystery & Crime
9 Dec 2023 313 readers
Angus readies himself to face off against Tony Wade. Dolores Wade has left the U S Grant.
Wes readies for trial. Cory adapts to life in the Oregon woods. The delicious Leon is busy painting until his perpetual erection needs attention. Cory bends and shakes Leon, nibblings, pinches, biting, and chewing him into ecstacy. As Leon nears the end, Cory backs him down and starts all over again. Leon ...
Topics: Fiction, Mystery & Crime
3 Dec 2023 96 readers
The senator comes home to take charge.
With Tag on the mend and Ivan exposed, Harry lays down the law.
The FBI will be here to do a complete investigation soon.
Harry wants Clay and Ivan to stay out of sight, while the FBI does its job.
Topics: Fiction, Mystery & Crime
2 Dec 2023 260 readers
Angus reports back to Wes.
Dolores Wade is talking about divorce.
Wes & McCoy talk about love and marriage and wives who put up
with their husband's many absences.
McCoy waits for another citing of Cory Wade.
Topics: Fiction, Romance, Relationship, Mystery & Crime, Love
27 Nov 2023 280 readers
Angus knows which way Cory went. He could be anywhere. He'll wait until he surfaces again.
Tony Wade is in court trying to stop McCoy, but McCoy calculates that if he's right, what Tony Wade is fighting to keep secret, Cory Wade, running for his life, has exposed to the light of day.
Topics: Fiction, Mystery & Crime
26 Nov 2023 296 readers
McCoy know what direction Cory has gone in.
It's a big country and with the headstart Cory has, McCoy is foiled yet again.
Jessie's confidence in McCoy worries him. He needs to go to reassure the boy Cory left behind that Cory is well and on the run. McCoy still isn't sure what makes Cory run.
Running into the arms of Leon, Cory is heading for somewhere no one will ever find him.
Leon ...
Topics: Fiction, Hitchhiking, Mystery & Crime, Love
25 Nov 2023 94 readers
Ivan's dream of Cove Enterprises goes up in smoke. Who is trying to burn out Ivan's dream.
Taggart is shot. The marina is in jeopardy. Vietnamese fisherman safe the day.
Ivan gets help for Tag. Who wants Ivan dead and doesn't much care how he dies?
Topics: Fiction, Relationship
19 Nov 2023 134 readers
Clay is busy keeping the Sanibel Island Conservancy on track. Ivan has gone to work on his Cove Enterprises. With Popov in partnership with him, Ivan is on his way. Popov owns nearly all of the land around the cove, and nothing happens without him being onboard. As his plan comes together, it begins to look like it might come apart, once the shop where it all started burns to the ground.
Topics: Fiction, Relationship
18 Nov 2023 295 readers
Once Angus thinks he has the lead that will put him on Cory's tail, he once again discovers that the teenage boy is far more than a step ahead of a wily detective. He knows most of the places where Cory was while he was in San Francisco. He knows he left the city heading north. That was a week ago. Angus knows, after a week, Cory could be anywhere. He went back home to wait for the next lead.
Topics: Fiction, Mystery & Crime
4 Nov 2023 97 readers
Ivan went along with the hippies, the flower children, and the war protestors. Cousin Carl takes him deeper into the war protest underground. Couisin Carl is a player and once Ivan meets an army captain in the park, he get the information that can lead him to his brother Boris. He's sent to work for a company that will get him to Cambodia.
Clay's diving on a freighter. There's a safe near the ...
Topics: Fiction, Relationship