Ray was good to his word. Two months after the October afternoon where we'd had Italian and talked about the future, he'd bought two tickets to Adelaide, had reserved a vehicle rental and looked into purchasing camping gear. "Sixteen and a half hours to get to Uluru?" He'd started to use the indigenous name for the place after the first 'suggestion'. Our si...
Chapter Five Jordan tried to keep his mind on the lesson, but every time he looked at the class, he saw Dorian. Every voice was Dorian's, and on more than one occasion, he had drawn a blank when someone asked a question. About his own damn race. By the end of class, he was a wreck and a half. He slumped down into his chair as the class left, and looked up t...
While out of town recently on a business trip I had a very unusual encounter. I'm not sure where to start but here goes. After the end of the Third day of meetings all I wanted to do was have a drink and relax and wait for my flight back home to the wife and kids. The flight didn't depart until early the next afternoon so I had quite a few hours to kill....
Blessed Trinity - Chapter 1: The Father… It soon became apparent that Adam still had the thoughts that had plagued him for so many years. Wracked with guilt he had joined the priesthood following the demise of his short-lived marriage to the daughter of his father's boss. On his wedding day he had prayed that the brief moments he had spent eyeing the young...
*"But I do it for the kids, life threw the towel in on Every time you fall it's only making your chin strong And I'll be in your corner like Mick, baby, 'til the end Or when you hear a song from that big lady Until the referee rings the bell Until both your eyes start to swell Until the crowd goes home What we gonna do ya'll?"* Westley stood in front of t...
I'll let comments from you readers determine whether this instalment is an ending in itself or merely a cliff-hanger. –K * Six months after Donovan moved in we got a call from Mom. The day was a sweltering hot one in July, which was uncharacteristic enough of Vancouver to warrant a heat-wave warning. With no air conditioning in our loft, we were hot, swea...
"By Roman custom, it is your privilege to ask me to undress and reveal myself to you in my natural state for your intimate thorough inspection." "That is not necessary, pretty one. As best I know among Britons we only have that right if we consider purchasing you. But you are to be a gift to us by the Celtic soldiering auxiliaries. All the same, we can see...
I could hear Stella Langer braying from across the room. And the noise was getting closer, so, without turning around, I knew she was headed in my direction. I steeled myself; I wanted to have this conversation with her, but it was such a chore to keep her on topic and to see that she kept her hands to herself. She had called to tell me that she had a propo...
Chapter Four When the door closed between them, Dorian was left bewildered. He sat on the couch without a stitch of clothing on, still staring at the black door, hoping against hope that Jordan would come back. When two hours passed and the door remained closed, Dorian finally peeled himself off of the leather couch and shuffled into the bedroom, dazed and...
"So, will you go with me?" I looked across the table in the open-air area of Effendi's Restaurant on the Kyrenia Harbor quay, and I could see the need in Tahir. I had known he would ask me that question. That was why I was here, in the Turkish zone, on my last night in Cyprus. Make him happy, the chief of station had said. He hadn't said how to make Tahir...