Phil Oleson

A Little Rain Might Fall Phil Oleson

Maren Lofton and John Fitch are two likeable college graduates who have been live-in lovers for almost two years. Now, they feel somewhat trapped. They have been renting a beautiful high-rise condo on Hamilton Island in Australia, overlooking the Coral Sea. Maren has honed her golf game to the point of possibly turning professional, but has few golf challenges left here. Jon has dived almost everywhere in the Great Barrier Reef and is now, frankly, bored, just passing the time with his computer games and books. How they have been able to live in this lifestyle is a secret that few know. Being in Australia was exciting at first, but both feel homesick now, and long to go back home to the U. S. That is going to be a bit tricky. They have had overcome difficult situations before, but life is going to get much more complicated. Candace McGraw, is a lithe, ginger-haired, blue-eyed, twenty-six year old dancer who has already had a world of experience in her lifetime. She has a gentle manner and seems too sweet to work in a gentlemen's club on the Caribbean island of San Roussel. Recently, she met a guy there who is slightly older, and he is finding his way into her life. They each have some skeletons in their closet, but, as he said, "Who doesn't?" Just when things between them are beginning to solidify, she has to leave to visit her parents. She cannot reveal the reason, or even if she will be able to return. He is so in love with her by now, he is crushed, but what can he do besides hope? It was Sophocles who said: "Love is what frees us from all the pain and weight in life." There may be some folks clinging to that love harder than ever in the not too distant future.