Despite the fact that he’d only seen Alicia Wilton a few times around town, Jamie found himself trusting the woman. Her manner reminded him of Megan’s, warm and open, not the kind of woman who’d keep secrets or lie to him. Jamie relaxed just a fraction, more than he would have thought possible under the circumstances. Alicia plopped her briefcase down on th...
I am a metallurgist working in the zinc coated sheet steel industry in Australia. I was offered a secondment to a steel plant that was being set up in India. The company in India had purchased a licence to manufacture sheet steel with a new kind of coating that my company had developed. I was only two years out of university but I had made a lot of advances...
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Chapter 2 Boy Meets Llama I only held the card up to the white light of the windshield for an instant and of course that's when the llama appeared. I never did find out whose llama it was, or where it went after I hit it doing about 45 mph. The beast ran off. I wasn't as lucky. Fuzzy llama karma-- Next thing I remember, I was taking baby steps in a yell...
Finding strength after the accident Kyle sat slumped in the hard chair inside room number three of the intensive care unit at Strong Memorial Hospital. He kept alternating his stares from Josh's unmoving body in the bed to the numerous monitors that were attached to him. Everything the machines were constantly displaying said things were okay, but since the...
Nate woke to the feel of gentle but rough fingertips soothing the swollen skin of his face. He opened his eyes to see the beautiful blues of Brandon Nash staring down at him. “Wake up, Nate. We’re here.” Nate shook himself in a bid to wake up. “I still say I can stay by myself. I hate to put you out like this.” “We had this argument back at the hospital,...
It was my first day back at work after spending two great weeks in Marbella with my wife, it was the first time for over eighteen years we were able to go on holiday without our son, who had now grown up and was old enough to look after himself. As usual the first day back after a break can be very hectic and I was dashing from one office to another arrangi...
My mother, kindly soul that she was, somehow agreed to take in two Swedish students for a fortnight before they joined some of their friends who were to camp in the Lake District in August. My elder sister had recently left home so there was a room vacant, into which she put twin beds; and as I had passed my driving test she reckoned I would be able to look...
Greg rounded the corner of the hospital entrance a little too fast causing them to skid. Jonathan held on for dear life feeling a thrill of titillation rush through him. His mouth suddenly dropped open and a screech permeated the atmosphere of the car. "I got it, baby." Greg quickly tried to assure him. "Just let me off at the entrance." Jon announced. "...
Adrian's black depression dragged at him like a cold undertow, to the point where he was beginning to loathe his own self-pity. He brooded for days in his bedchamber, silent, dressed entirely in black silks, not sleeping, lighting only a single candle at night for company in his self-induced exile. He was sitting at the table, one arm folded beneath his chin...