When a substitute "takes charge" of 4th grade for a day, tedium is the rule until recess.
Jack received the call about his wife's death on the highway nearly five months ago. When school ended, Jack left the life they had and moved into the house his aunt left him on Buzby Beach. How old is too old to start over? Jack needs the answer.
A family feud erupts when a family from the dodgy part of the city moves to a neighborhood in a small town and their kids show no respect for anyone or anything, which is just how their psychopath of a mother likes it.
So, you want teachers back in the classrooms. Then maybe you should put them at the head of the line for vaccines.
The first in a series about my life as an educator past and present.
It's Wil's first day of 4th-Grade at a new school in a new town. His parents dropped him off before going to their new home, so Wil didn't even know where he lived. If he hadn't met Abby, the boy would have been totally lost.
Paige wants to learn to sail. Mack has a sailboat.
Mark is home on leave and drops by the bar his grandfather, a retired police captain owns and meets Sara, the new bartender. Before they can become better acquainted, the police scanner blares out the news of an officer down.
Jack, a high school teacher, received the call informing him of his wife's death on the highway nearly five months ago. When school ended, Jack sold their home, retired from teaching, and moved into the house his aunt left him on Buzby Beach. How old is too old to start over? Jack needs the answer.
Jack received the call about his wife's death on the highway nearly five months ago. When school ended, Jack left the life they had and moved into the house his aunt left him on Buzby Beach. How old is too old to start over? Jack needs the answer.
Marc thought he'd spend a solitary week camping at New River State Park until he met Veronica.
Mark learns the identity of the Malibu's driver, but not why the man is watching his neighbor. Or is it Mark the PI is keeping an eye on?
A young man is bow hunting in the icy swamp and has to track his wounded quarry over the thin ice.
Mark has lunch among statues and paintings of pirates, real and fictional, at the Pirates' Cave. On his way home, he spots a stalker he thinks is eyeing Cybil and her daughter.
Jack's parents show up for his ice cream social date with Georgia.
Jack finds a way to pass the time until joining Georgia at the ice cream social.
When your mother blames you for the problem when you're the one who stopped to help.
Corie interrupts Jack's lunch at the Beach Cone.
Mark hadn't gone to the beach hoping to meet a woman, but when Cybil introduced herself, talking to her seemed like the courteous thing to do.
Wanda convinces Jack to let her hang out by his pool while he waits for a furniture delivery.
Mark hears from his older brother with whom he has a contentious relationship.
Breakfast with Wanda at The Crabby Stack
Mark begins his new routine with a run on the beach, breakfast, and then wonders what to do with the rest of his day.
It's Saturday morning. Mark retired from the Army the day before. The nightmare his last combat mission left him awakens him before sunrise. Not the way Mark hoped to begin the new chapter in his life.
In the summer of 2012, Wolf Spiders declared war on my family with a sneak attack on my oldest son while he was working in the yard clearing brush. While the war has been waged on a low scale with few active engagements in the years since, this summer the Wolf Spiders have stepped up their offensive
Rick lost both legs below the knee in the war. He recovered and was a successful restauranteur on Buzby Beach. Then one night a voice from the past showed up at his bar.
Marissa, a girl from a small coastal town in eastern NC, and David, a boy from the lakes region of NH, meet at Spanaway Lake in western Washington State where he's a soldier and she attends college.
A young man spends a night on a sandbar and dreams of a girl he thinks he can never be with.
Wanda accompanies Jack to breakfast at the Crabby Stack.
Wanda shows up in Buzby Beach unannounced and looking to send Jack a clear message. Will Jack be in a receptive mood?
The Shoreside Sharks last non-coference game of the season took place on a rainy Friday night. Could they keep up their unbeaten streak or would the falling rain be their downfall?
15-year-old Sabine was raped by her older sister's boyfriend when she was 12. Her sister thinks Sabine led the boy on. Dad thinks Sabine was asking for it. Mom's too drunk to care. Sabine desperately needs some coastal healing. This is her arrival at Buzby Beach.
Young drivers often get caught up in what's going on in the car, sometimes to their peril.
High school years can be fraught with strong emotions, deep resentments, actions with tragic consequences, and unlikely heroes.
Michael's son Declan has graduated college and will soon be leaving to start his military career, but not before father and son share one last sail around the lake.
The farm I lived on when I first married had an old tobacco barn behind the house and there was one slat on the barn broken off at the lower corner that always drew my attention.
Ronnie didn’t find out until he was twenty-two years old that the man he’d called Dad all his life wasn’t really his father.
Trevor had never attended any of his high school reunions. He hadn't planned to attend this one.