Short Stories

We were looking at the auction pieces. Lise, my wife, is my lifetime companion, we have been married for 43 years. Here, she wanted to make a good deal hoping to buy a grandmaster’s painting of great value for a few hundred dollars. She has been watching Antique Road show every week and she loves…

A few days before I prepared my third art book ‘’Modern Impressions Book 3’’ for publishing, I had a very strange visit to my Hilton Head Island little art gallery. A very handsome and well-dressed man walked in; there was such energy and self-assurance coming out from him that I immediately thought that this visitor…

| STORY IN ENGLISH | My name is Richard Riverin. I am a careered artist-painter living in Hilton Head Island, SC. I am 75 years old, five feet nine inches tall, handsome for my age, in good shape and still sharp mentally. It is the reward for working out every day and jog three to…

I spent so many evening hours, outside, on my rocking chair, looking at the stars and wondering what might be happening up there. I imagined different species living on those worlds building strange cities. I imagined some of them traveling between the stars in incredible spaceships. I was a dreamer and I wondered why I…

I survived the perils of Ghama-2 and the traps of the Crystal city to get to the enhancing devices. You will understand what I just said, if you have read the first two books of Ghama-2 An Afterlife story trilogy. This is an exert of the third book ‘’ The Return of the Emissaries’’. …

That’s it! It is happening; I am dying, I thought as the pain stop. At that moment everything came back; a whole life of souvenirs came back, crystal clear. There was no time and if there was time it wasn’t important anymore, time was unnoticeable. I was living my life again as an observer. A…

For those who have not read my previous adventures in “The Perpendicular World” and “Dracula” I need to tell you that I am an artist-painter who owns an art gallery in Hilton Head Island and in Montréal. I like to play golf with the members of Palmetto Dunes Golf Club as well as with the…

Dracula What just happened will change my life and yours as well; let me start here with my personal fear. I was afraid to go to the basement alone at night, I was afraid of ghosts. Perhaps it was due to all those scary stories that my father told us when we were young; I…

I was unhappy; I had been unhappy for quite a while. The banker had called back the business loan one year after I invested it in a second art gallery. Besides that, it had been a tough year. I had taken a partner and he revealed himself to be a thief, stealing money from our…