It was finally done and over with. After 40 years of marriage you had caught your wife cheating and had decided divorce was the only option. The funny thing was that if she had just talked with you a compromise could have been found. You were open to an open relationship as you yourself were a polyamorous individual living a monogamous life because that's wh...
Chapter 10 Opportunity They took a bathroom break. Carmen got a diet soda out of the vending machine near the lobby, and Shane got a soda and a bag of Fritos. Lauren got a bottle of cold water from the refrigerator in the break room. Without preamble, she passed out photocopies. "Every homicide case has a timeline prepared. What happened when. Marybeth start...
Michelle cursed at the traffic for the hundredth time. It's April in Illinois. It always rains in April. Why can't people drive in rain? It's not like they've never seen rain before. The local weather station promised a dismal weekend: rain, thunder, cold, and this was the first private weekend she and Mark had had in a long time. No kids, no work, no respon...
As I sat in my unmarked car up on the third floor of the parking garage I glanced at my watch. It was 1:02AM. "Hey detective, when are these guys supposed to show up again?" said one of the uniforms sitting in the car with me. "They should be here now." I said looking at the drug dealer leaning against a pillar waiting for his daily delivery of Climax. "I...
My name is Dwayne Dexter. I'm an 18-year old African-American male from a major southern US city. All my life I've have been surrounded by despair and deprivation: too many friends and family on ****, in gangs or in jail. But I'm lucky: I have phenomenal athletic ability, and can run, jump, catch and throw like no one else I know. I spent high school working...
Therese had been promising herself a deluxe pedicure for some time now, and with the gift certificate she received for her birthday, she decided it was about time. Hitting forty wasn't a lot of fun, but her friends at work helped ease the pain a bit with a surprise party. They had threatened to bring a male stripper in to celebrate the event, but management...
Well, today was the day I was going to find out what the Gold Card deluxe premium would bring me. After dropping nearly fifteen hundred dollars on the TV and considering the premiums I got for just buying lunch or a few items at the drug store, I figured this had to be something fantastic. I had been a bit frustrated when they didn't let me have the premium...
Suzie snuggles up against me and curls up even more closely as daybreak brings the first glimmers of dirgy, melancholy, drizzly Seattle November light into the room as the clock moves past 7 am. I've been awake for about an hour now, for the most part, even though we didn't get to bed until just a few hours earlier, and my head just pounds. Even with the lac...
Chapter 21 Pulling the TriggerCarmen picked up Shane on Monday morning at Alice's old apartment on North Harper Avenue, and when they arrived at the conference room, coffees from The Planet in hand, they were surprised to see Marybeth Duffy sitting next to Lauren. They both had their laptops open. "Good morning, park your butts in your chairs, let's get goi...
After receiving a cloned body I immigrated 127 Light Years from Earth to Free Skyes. Unfortunately I had to work and pay for that cloned body and I had very few skills a high tech society could use. So it was either I become an Unskilled Labourer or a Sex Slave. I guess Human Recourses sure had me figured out. All those years in BDSM chat-rooms and websites...