LOVE LIFE
A series of short-short stories


By Rick Doble


This cycle of love stories
describes the experience of love
from youth to old age.
These tales are told mostly in first person
by very different men and women.









Trying to unweave, unwind, unravel
And piece together the past and the future, Between midnight and dawn, when the past is all deception, The future futureless ... (T.S.Eliot, The Dry Salvages)


"Their story, yours, mine, it's all we carry with us on this trip we take..." (Robert Coles, quoting William Carlos Williams in The Call of Stories)


"There are eight million stories in the naked city; this has been one of them." Tag line from the television series, The Naked City.





PART I: YOUTH

1. LONG DISTANCE ROMANCE
2. IN BLOOM
3. DOG EAT DOG


PART II: 20 SOMETHING

4. DIVORCE DINNER
5. LUNCH ENCOUNTER
6. HEADING SOUTH


PART III: 30 SOMETHING

7. BEACH MUSIC
8. WILD FLOWERS
9. 6 O'CLOCK INSTANT NEWS
10. KNOWLEDGE


PART IV: 40 & 50 SOMETHING

11. DUPLICITY
12. THE LIME LIGHT
13. INVASION


PART V: SENIORS

14. THE HIGH BALLS ARE ON ME, SAID THE GIRAFFE
15. MY HEART'S DESIRE
16. THE YANKS ARE COMING
17. ALL MY TOMORROWS

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