Emberburgh was a fairly unremarkable small town on the surface. Not poor, it was still a college town after all but it was somewhat exclusive. A lot of affluent old money names kept homes here. But if anything else could be openly said about Emberburgh, it was home to an exclusive university. Ashfield Academy. The campus itself predates the civil war. Establ...
There were many other high school friends, guys and gals. These guys were not on the football team and the gals were not cheerleaders. One friend was Pat, an Italian kid like myself, he was from Grandview. Of my high school guy friends, Pat was the most involved, successfully involved, in the rock and roll music scene. Pat was a talented bass guitar player,...
In the quiet, sheltered darkness of the smuggler's hideout, there was little indication of just when the morning light had finally crept over the horizon. No, it was the nagging chill of the cold ground, and the lack of the warm body he had drifted off beside that finally stirred Hafred to wakefulness. The dim, diffuse glow scattering in from the veiled, dis...
"Though he had seen many specters and been more than once beset by Satan, he would have passed a pleasant life in spite of the devil and all his works if his path had not crossed a being that causes more perplexity than ghosts, goblins, and the whole race of witches: a woman." -Washington Irving, "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" *** By the time Adrian though...
It took her six months to convince me. As she said, "A few little encounters to help us enjoy our sex life even more. What she meant was she wanted us to join her older sister, Rita, and Rita's play mates in game of selection. Selection meaning the women would select the man that would take her home and spend the night. You know sexual swinging. I was opp...
She's an idiot. Let me take that back, she's a fucking idiot! What's worse, is she's a very smart woman, so she had to work very, very hard to become an idiot. The woman in question is my wife, very soon to become my ex-wife. Almost the standard story, cheated on me and got caught. Well, she doesn't know she got caught, but she'll find that out in the next f...
((This is Chapter One of a five chapter story. Each chapter will feature some of the main, framing story of a bartender and a girl in a bar in modern times and also a full fantastical tale that one of them tells the other about one of their relatives. Both of their families are from the Appalachian Mountains of Tennessee and Kentucky, so the stories are told...
The moment I saw her that autumn afternoon, I knew that I just had to have her. Sitting quietly in the shadows of the empty library, lit only by the lambent warmth of the reading lamp over the desk, her demure beauty ignited a fire in my soul that had been dormant for many centuries, and I knew that I must take her life force and make it my own. ooOoo I wa...
[Author's Note: Well, at long last here it is. The plot comes to fruition. When I started this story I'd only ever intended to write the first part and leave it at that. But your reviews, your praise, compelled me to write more. Never underestimate the power of your words. I may craft an epilog for this tale in a while. Please feel free to leave comments or...
Livia’s heart thrums fierce and wild as if to break free from its cage within her, while her breath races unchecked, only to push the muscle harder. She stopped here, just outside the door, to find her courage, but she worries she may not be able to. Fear. She cannot allow herself to show it, not when she walks into that room. She’s not had much experience i...