Dinner Party Mystery A Girl Friday, Risk Versus Reward crossover story. * Chapter 4: An Indecent Proposal Juliet "Miss Charlotte. Miss Charlotte." I laid my hand on her arm, as I watched demure little Esme encouraging our guests to make their way to the dining room. "Not now," she growled. "Miss Charlotte, it's time to eat." She turned to face me, an...
Stories said that there was no living thing that could withstand dragonfear. That morning, Jeni had awoken expecting a usual day; sunny and warm, calm and quiet, full of baking and lugging hay and wood, with her brothers and mother and father. Instead, on that day, the sky above her village would fill with smoke and arrows, enough to darken the sun. Jeni h...
Ken and I had followed the Navy after his OCS and two short-hitch postings for him to Pensacola, Florida. His work as a flight controller was stable enough so it looked as though we might just be here awhile. I put my Journalism degree to use and found work with a small magazine and they seemed pretty happy to have me. So we were the typical duel income, no...
Knight of Passion Alone in her tower, Princess Mariella could hear the sounds of battle coming from below. Out of her window, she could see down into the courtyard of her prison, the tall stone spire that had confined her for close to five years now. Far below, the cobblestones were streaked with scorch marks, long black lines of soot that crisscrossed the...
A low chime announced the arrival of the third course. I let it sit in the dumbwaiter for now and looked across the table at my companion and smiled warmly as she spoke. Her words had chilled me on the inside. I hope it didn't show in my smile. She had unknowingly revealed to me that she had been suffering from low-grade posttraumatic stress disorder or at...
1923, Vienna They had boarded the Night Train in Vienna and were now on their way to Istanbul. To the unsuspecting passengers they were just two young travelling companions, daughter of diplomats maybe on their way to some grand occasion at the end of Europe. But they were quite a bit more. Aniela, a polish girl in her early twenties and Daiya a Japanese gi...
(on a side note, this is the first erotic writing I've submitted. Please let me know what you think.) * Kara tossed her cards into the center of the table. "Fold. Can we get on with it?" she asked impatiently. The fellow sitting to her right, Collen something-or-other, tossed his hand in as well, nodding. Directly across the table from Kara, Laurent...
I was sitting in the snow with my best friend Ariana; We were basking in the glory of our well-fought victorious battle against Jourmag. We had finally defeated the dragon after months of searching and a vicious battle lasting days. Both of us were sitting in silence, trying to catch our breaths and taking in the beauty of the area now that the threat of the...
I had linked my arm in hers as we were exiting the building. I had been joking about her unsteadiness, but in reality, my companion was a little wobbly. The cute little red-haired girl (I thought of her as a little girl but in reality, she was almost as tall as I am in her heels and I am a flat-footed 6'1". And her body? Definitely not a little girl's body!...
BEATRICE 12 - THE PARTY IN PIMLICO We were going out. Jenny wanted to make me up and dress me for the party in Pimlico. She had 'certain special' friends, 'theatrical', as she liked to call them, who wanted to meet me. I wondered about them. She cut my long hair short, like a boy, the parting on the left. I had not been expecting her to cut it so severely....