The voice in her head just would not let up. "Run..run...run...run...run..run..run...run....," That's all Sherry Mitchum had heard for the past 18 years. Going all the way back to when she was a budding young track star in Huntsville, Texas, about an hour North of Houston, all the teenager seemed to hear, whether she was doing her homework, going to church...
Caden heard the phone ringing. She had been hearing the phone's ring since that afternoon but had ignored it effortlessly. She turned over on her couch and stared at her DVD clock. It was eight at night. She had slept through the day, getting up a few times to use the bathroom, and then had gone right back to her bed on the couch, restlessly turning for a fe...
For the second consecutive growing season, the monsoons had failed to arrive over the Indian rice paddies. Without the heavy annual rainfall, the Nalwali family had been unable to produce their customarily bountiful crop of top quality rice. It was the proceeds from the rice crop that allowed the Nalwali family to not only survive but to provide the resourc...
'This, I'm afraid, is unacceptable.' A flash of panic hit Carrie. She felt mildly nauseous at the way this conversation was heading. She was going to fail; they were going to kick her out, and the past two years of study would all be for nought. If only she'd skipped a party here or a night out there, she could have been on easy street going into her third...
Megan rang the door bell, she stood waiting by the door, she felt quite nervous. The door opened and Micheal appeared, he gave Megan a happy but nervous smile and let her walk inside. Micheal closed the door and took a deep breath before turning round to face Megan. "So, here we are... You got everything you need??" asked Micheal nervously, he kept his dis...
A romantic thriller in 15 chapters. This is a story of a maiden in moral hazard. For some, no Apocalypse is needed to deliver them into a corrupt, dog eat dog world. Blen, is one such. Surrounded on all sides by dangerous people, facing the ultimate sacrifice to secure the future of her family, with cunning and artifice she employs her opponents' weapons to...
Newburyport: A New England Novel Of A Woman, Her Loves and Lusts Chapter I: Holly's Seduction It was another rainy weekend. On this dark and dreary midwinter Sunday morning Holly had cleaned the huskies kennel, finished the week's laundry, talked to her oldest daughter in Alexandria, and gotten more and more depressed. The past few weeks had been brutal. B...
"Come on in." The text message showed up on his watch and he made his way into the spare bedroom. It had been kind of awkward sitting around alone in the living room while she did Lord knew what in there, but apparently the wait was over. Time for his gift. Opening the door he paused, struck by the scene she'd set up and the part she'd cast him to play. T...
__________________________________________________ "TIME TRAVELER'S TERROR" ─── by ══/\/ymph══ (DAW) (C) October 2015 ────────── please do not reprint without permission ──── Written: October 1st 2015 __________________________________________________ It has been a long-standing tradition when you go to camp to have either one of the counselors or older...
Everyone knows the tale of 'Sleeping Beauty' the princess cursed by a slighted witch. She was to prick her finger on a spinning needle and fall into a deep sleep only to be rescued by Prince Charming's kiss. In 1983, Anne Rice writing as A. N. Roquelaure wrote a version of Sleeping Beauty turning the fairy tale into an adventure of bondage and humiliation....