Jim Bellows felt like complete shit. The Customs and Immigration people had taken one look at him and just waved him through. Later they would get into trouble for not calling the health department. "Where the hell is she? She knows what time my plane was to arrive and she isn't even answering her cell phone!" Jim thought to himself. He didn't want to do i...
I wanted a pretty confident female lead for this one. The story just called for it and I've placed her in a rather male-dominated period. She doesn't give a damn. ------------------- Amy Monaghan rode down the main street of Portales in something of a foul mood. The one pleasing thing to her was that here in this place, she could ride with her long red hai...
The sun rose above the great kingdom of Elteran. Glad for the rains to be gone, the people of the magnificent city prepared for the glorious day ahead. Inside the castle, the fair princess Lana was already busying herself wither father's breakfast, when her half-brother, Rafael, came down. "Good morrow, my sweet sister, Lana." He said as he stopped, taking...
Binky lay in bed and looked up at her bedroom ceiling. There were several cracks that needed filling and a lick of paint wouldn't have gone a miss. She rolled her eyes as she listened to Matt, talking outside on his mobile phone, no doubt making excuses as to his whereabouts to his harridan of a demanding wife. Binky sighed and lay over onto her stomach. Thi...
The disease came for Scott Pender's father quickly. Before he could return home from a tour with Sacred Sacrament, a band that needed to hire him at the last minute because their guitarist disappeared into rehab, the neighborhood friends his father accumulated took care of him. He was grateful, the time and money they put in to make sure that his father had...
When the time came for Polly's schooling to finish, Fagin sent for her. They met in private, in the Principal's office. He was reading Polly's final report. 'You have first class report, my dear. The Principal is fulsome in her praise of you. Gives you a title of deputy-governess. That's good. With a final certificate of this quality, you should do well. Ho...
Cynthia Finds A Lover Cynthia Sotero's father had always been overprotective of her. Ever since she could remember, her father had kept a watchful eye over how she dressed. The caring man was overly concerned with whom Cynthia spoke to and whom she hung out with. At first, the young woman supposed that a lot of his worries had to do with the way her mother...
I've been on a creative blitz lately people - here is my latest! * Valerie Darnell used to tell all her friends at school that no one was like her daddy, that he was unique. She'd found out last month just how unique her father was. Brushing a stray blonde lock from her forehead, she recalled, in detail, how she learned all of her father's secrets and how...
That night, at the stroke of midnight I heard my mother awaken. The floors of our house creaked, alerting me to her movement. I crept from my bed to the sight of her in a white bathrobe, approaching Jahil as he slept. I watched as, to my horror, she dropped the robe her body on full display. Elena took his hand caressing it down her chest, from her collar bo...
"Son, you're being unreasonable." From across the room where he stood next to the small mahogany bar in his father's office, Damon Moore let out a bracing breath and began making himself a drink with steady, practiced ease. It was only about four in the afternoon, but the sun was nearly set so he splashed in half a finger more than his usual; it was going t...