Malta, 1815 Billy woke in the late evening and reached over beside him to find the bed empty. He looked over to the French doors out onto the garden on the cliff overlooking Malta's Valetta harbor, with its vast array of ships' masts in view beyond the edge of the garden. He sat up on the side of the bed, opened the drawer of the nightstand, and took out a...
Special Forces Captain learns love in prison; so does wife They say it just take one fuck-up to ruin a perfect score, and I kept hearing that in the back of my mind as I ran over the sand dunes, damning myself for getting separated from my team! Bullets hitting around me, spitting up little yellow geysers of sand, and behind me the chunk-a sound of AK-47s l...
+-{Part 8}-+ I don't know why it's still this hot at the end of October, but I don't think I'd ever felt a cold day in this country. The sun was blazing away as I made my way out of my last class for the day. Hiding out in Morocco had put me another week behind in my classes. Ali had fixed it all. I magically got notes for what I'd missed and got ridiculous...
{Emerson & the Lion} Part 5 ******************* Now that we can hear that sound Now that you can hold me down You can pull me under You can raze everything to the ground Everything I can arrange Every part of me you change Just hold me together Tell me you'll always want me to stay It's shaking the sky And I'm following lightning I'll recover if you keep...
"Man, we're going to be in so much shit if our dads find out about this." Bill said. "Just relax. They're never going to know." Lee replied. He was sitting on the sofa with his phone in one hand and the telephone number that the hot biker had given their dads at the concert in the other. "I'm not even sure why we're doing this." Bill said while Lee punch...
I am fairly certain my father knew there was more to my being apprenticed to the Dutch munitions broker Fons Hertzog when I arrived in Cape Town from London then learning a merchant's trade. He was being protective of me, I'm sure, the Great War having broken out the previous summer in Europe with the assassination of the archduke. With the war only enlargi...
The plane journey from Sydney to Zürich Airport, including the stopover in Dubai, was like running in an endurance race and Oliver was feeling totally washed-out. He stood up as soon as he could, shortly after the plane had landed; removed his carry-on from the overhead bin and waited in the aisle for the disembarking to commence. Lost in his own thoughts,...
He was rude to me when I first saw him, which is one of the reasons I remembered him. The other was that he was drop-dead gorgeous. This was in the souk (Arab market) in the Muslim Quarter of the Old City, one dull Saturday morning, and I was shopping for a Quran. Not some paperback English translation, but something really nice, an ornate Arabic copy I co...
"So here we are now: a sip of wine, a sip of water. Someday maybe, maybe someday we'll be smarter." - Jimmy Eat World I. I laid on a thick layer of straw in the barn. He let me stay that night after my farm work was done. His few acres of land were hidden away from the city. The little barn was silent besides the occasional chirping frog and a train horn i...
[I've been searching in the woods and high upon the hills Just to find my samurai Someone who won't regret, to keep me in his net Yes I need my samurai] +{Kasper's Den}+ Part 9 [By Emri and Xelos] I accidentally saw something I wasn't supposed to see. Amir had left early for class. He wanted to get some things done so he could be back in time to tak...