"Dammed its hot out here," she thought to herself as she stood on the porch of the small log cabin and looked up the valley toward the Old Baldy mountain. It wasn't uncommon to hit the low 90s, this time of year, even up here in the Willow Creek valley, but that didn't make it any more enjoyable. She could see the snow that hung on the tops of the high moun...
"I've made my ruling. Mr. Warner. Mrs. Warner. Counsel?" Five people in the courtroom stood. My lawyer, Adam Brillstein and his assistant, Lauryn Tourney, myself, my soon-to-be-ex-husband, Bryant and his dim-watt bulb lawyer, Arthur Acrisos. Lauryn gave my shoulders a quick, gentle squeeze and Adam shot her a stern look. She had evidently forgotten his admo...
I'd like to thank azure_skies and robertreams for editing and providing advice with my writing. * When I was younger we lived in a small town that hosted the county fair. My parents would take my little sister and I to see the animals, ride the various amusements, and to see the homemade items that county fairs are famous for. We looked at all the huge ve...
It was a warm sunny summer day, and I was alone at the family horse ranch. Everyone had gone to town to run errands. Feeling a bit frisky, I decided to go for a ride on my horse. Since the ranch is on more than 1600 acres of private land, most times I ride naked. It was very warm, and I was alone, so I stripped off my clothes and left them in the barn. I ro...
Love had been one of the least permanent things in Kate's life. In her line of work, she traveled very light and nothing lasted long. Not even the pistols she used to snuff a contract were hers for more than a few days. To look at Kate when she was all dolled up, you would have never expected her to be so cold. When she waltzed though a room, heads would tu...
Kassandra sat upon her front porch looking out into the woods, beyond those she could see the tops of the mountains. Dressed in her baggy Grey sweatpants and her Jeff Gordon racing t-shirt she rocked in the handmade cedar rocking chair. She watched the fog begin to lift from the ground, watching it head toward the peaks of the mountains as the sun started to...
I had just completed my sophomore year in college. I grew up in Boston and had spent my entire life in New England. Now I was attending one of those prestigious but rather prim ‘seven sister' colleges of which my mother and my two older sisters were both alumni. And that was after years at a dreary preparatory school my mother, too, insisted I attend. After...
Diane's death was mercifully sudden, the cancer raced through her body like a wildfire in a drought stricken forest the last month of her life. She had a feeling something was wrong but waited until her regular visit with her doctor to discuss the pains she felt within her. Unfortunately at that point it was too late. She did get to see her daughter Jordan g...
It was Monday morning, again. Jan looked at me obliquely when I waddled in to my cubicle. Then she smiled her wonderful knowing smile. We had been close friends for over a year now and were "cell mates"; we had adjoining cubicles. 'Stubble burns?' she asked meaningfully. 'Don't start on me Jan,' I croaked. 'And a touch too much of the grape? ' 'Have pity...
When Gina Met Tammy...Ch.10 The girls arrive in Texas, and Tammy gets to see Gina's childhood hometown. GINA: I woke up sweating in spite of the hotel A/C being on. Looking at my phone, I saw it was only 2:00 AM! Shit, this bed really sucks big time. Looking over at Tammy, she was lucky enough to be sleeping, though a sheen of sweat covers her, too. Ma...