Red Underwear is the story of a single man's quest for love before the Internet and cellphones were in vogue. Henry a lonely writer has just won a writing prize. He decides to place a personal ad in the local paper to find a woman to help him cele...

Cheeseburger is the 1987 PEN/Discovery Prize First Place winner in Fiction. It was selected by Joyce Carol Oates and appeared the following year in the Ontario Review edited by Raymond Smith. It is the poignant story of a young girl's unrequited l...

Evans must decide if he wants to be the faithful and dependable lover to Louis who is returning home to recuperate after a long stay in the hospital. Or will his bitterness over Louis's unfaithfulness and the prospect of Louis's long road to recov...

Men, you never know what's going to show up at the door when you place an ad on an online "dating" site. But what to do if your date turns out to be a crab? If life serves you crabs, make gumbo. It's a bit raunchy and as always the language is raw...

A short but potent story of Avery's secret life. Ladies, it will blow your mind if you knew what your fella was doing behind your back. Fellas, if you have secrets, you understand. Avery is on the downlow. He pours out his story about him and h...

The Roommates is a short, but potent story that blends the sacred and the profane. It may disturb those who are sensitive and religious and believe there is no place for the erotic to blend with sacred. But this is exactly what happens when Omar t...

Houston is hotter than July. Splash is in Full swing at the Warehouse. Sex is hot and love is bitter. It all crashes in the end. The 520i is another short but beautifully written piece by Charles W Harvey. Imagine Dante's Inferno with a hot sea of...

Bunny Marie works for LaSalle, a Washington DC Lobby/PR firm. Her conscience is bothering her and she believes the Director of the firm is out to get her. She wants to do the right thing about the cigarette company who is a major client of LaSalle...

This short story Betty's House is well crafted and straddles the genre of Literary and Urban Literature. Betty is a take-charge woman with a weakness for men down in their luck. Her men soon prove themselves to be unfaithful and suffer Betty's wr...

When Dogs Bark, The Short Story has been reissued by WES Writing. They say a cat has nine lives, but this dog has been everywhere and everything but dead. It made its debute in 1995 in Story Magazine. Soulfires picked it up in 1996 as well as the ...