Eileen was pretty happy with the housewarming party. About thirty-five of the forty people she and Jared had invited arrived and they more than filled the house that they had moved into a month earlier. The crowd was a testament to the friends that the two had made since moving to Parkman a month prior. Since Jared received his promotion and moved to this br...
Erin and I started dating during the second half of our senior year in high school. Despite being overrun with hormones, we actually took the physical part of our relationship pretty slowly. In fact, by a couple of weeks after graduation, we still hadn't progressed beyond second base. One hot, humid day in June, however, that all changed. We were hanging ou...
THE GRANDE BALLROOM. Four bomb disposal experts in body-armor wheel a metal container out the doorway. Police mill about as ambulance attendants heft Rostislav's body onto a stretcher. "See that your superiors file a detailed report on this incident," the tight-faced police detective says to Dominika. "Yes-sir. Lieutenant General Yezhov will see to it f...
I work all over the world on a security consultancy basis. Jules works locally, and specialises in getting people into work, not employment recruitment, but more holistic and motivational, but then she's very, very different and unconventional in just about everything she does. , from her ink, to her previously strong bi-sexual relationships. Well, let's be...
Part 5.5 Chapter 22 The Officers Call had been delayed until David got back from the Palace. He opened the meeting by telling them a British Army inspection team was coming to Kanda to inspect the 'Rabble' that guarded the Pass. The reaction of his officers were what he expected: Anger and disbelief. After they had cooled down, he went on to say th...
In an e-mail the other day, someone wrote to me that her life had turned into a country song. My first thought was of the old joke. You know what you get when you play a country song backwards? You get your dog back, your spouse back, your house back and your best friend Jack back. Later it occurred to me though, that if it's in a country song then chances a...
“You're an uppity bitch, aren't you? You think you can just do as you please. Even when you're told not to. You still do what you want. Haven't you learned anything yet, you slut?" My Master growled clipping his words as his eyes narrowed to slits, his nostrils flared, his lips curled cruelly. He looked like evil personified. I hated him with every fiber of...
It's hard for anyone who hasn't been to war to understand the multitude of feelings that can arise in a soldier during the course of a military career. I've never judge another soldier's actions by the criteria of a civilian society. There are few things to prepare a man for the violence of wartime and its aftermath. At least that's how I look at my life and...
That sunlight on my face that morning would be the last of its kind. Radio reports said that a huge storm was brewing, and you made the decision then and there to pack up and head toward home. Little did I know that you had a little stop-over in mind. As we broke camp and reloaded our vehicle, angry black clouds rolled across the sky. I begin to worry, as...
The medic and the Russian had stopped for the night. Bearing in mind that he was a city boy, the Russian was not so squeamish, the medic though. If he had to walk, he walked, if he had to sleep, beneath the sky, on the dirt, he slept. Even the medic was a city man, but he had more experience about the life in that country. Especially about how much it took t...