Distant Lover

"Distant Lover" is about protagonist Alley's yearning for someone that seems hard to reel in. He yearns for Lavida Jones, but she is entangled in parenting, job, and ex-fiance problems.

The story opens with Alley being the ultimate, unemployed, and complete loser.

Not only is Alley suddenly blessed with finding job security, he meets his distant lover on a bus. Together, Alley and Lavida survive all the wacky challenges: A stalking bum that eventually cleans up his alcoholic behaviors, returns to the bottle, and ends up dead by the end of "Distant Lover." The gangster son of Lavida, who threatened to shoot Alley if marriage came up, ends up shot and finds that Jesus is his best friend. The ex-fiance and part time Jamaican pimp, Robert, ends up the most hated villain you'll ever read about.