Michael Jefferson
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Michael Jefferson has been writing books, articles and scripts since he was 12. In 2017, his first novel, Horndog: Forty Years of Losing at the Dating Game was published by Maple Tree Productions.
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This past year, I learned I’m not alone. For most of my life, bad relationships, bad health, and bad luck were things that happened to everyone else. I sailed into retirement the same carefree way I’d plowed through life, eating and partying with the reckless abandon of a teenager.
By Michael Jeffersonabout a year ago in Confessions
The Curse of Louie the Lame
The river ran backwards on the day the Queen vanished. Queen Aire’s handmaidens were the first to notice her absence. They rushed to the Queen’s chambers, anxious to tell her what they had seen but could not believe. They knocked frantically on her chamber door for several minutes, finally summoning the courage to enter.
By Michael Jeffersonabout a year ago in Fiction
Come and Get Your Love
Arvin Wurlie watches the man brooding at the end of the bar down another double scotch. Arvin knows he’s a fellow warrior because Grumman’s Tavern only attracts servicemen. Picking up his beer, the sixty-six-year-old navy veteran decides he has to know what destroyed the man.
By Michael Jefferson2 years ago in Fiction
Klaatu Barada Nikto
To the casual observer, Veronica Rennie and I were opposites – she was the beauty, and I was the beast. But Veronica was one of the few women I dated in the 1980s (or any other time) who was a friend, not just a girlfriend. She said one reason she loved me was because I was the only person who could make her forget she suffered from manic depression.
By Michael Jefferson2 years ago in Chapters
Protector
Sir Morpheus’ eyes flutter, opening “Again?” the knight asks. “Again,” the Lady of the Lake replies. Sir Morpheus has dark, swarthy features with thick, braided hair, high cheekbones, and bottomless black eyes. His strength, skills, and seeming immortality have made him the most feared and respected knight in the kingdom.
By Michael Jefferson2 years ago in Fiction
Someone is Gonna Take My Heart…But No One is Gonna Break My Heart Again
Everyone has a game changer, a love so intense, so consuming, so embedded in your soul that it affects every relationship you have, even after your broken-hearted husk has been cast aside and forgotten.
By Michael Jefferson3 years ago in Humans
