Chapter 0.1: Our Only Hope "Dave! Jaime's fried! Her entire power subsystem is burnt to shit! She can't keep operating." Keith blurted out, his voice shaking with anxiety. "It's a miracle her auxiliary battery stayed intact long enough for her to make it out of that hot tub and back to her room!" Dave nervously rubbed his hands over his eyes and responded,...
Authors Note: This is a story I've been working on for a little while. This first part introduces the two main characters and part of the conflict. I've written the rest of the story, but I'm sure I'll continue to make changes as it goes, so feel free to make comments and suggestions. I may incorporate them along the way. Thanks! Prolog She stood in a ci...
1-intro Introduction... This is a very long and drawn out story born from an idea centered on an actual event that did take place with a girl named Patti -who I was once madly in love with... In this story, there are three things that are absolutely true... One being that there really was a girl named Patti who I did nick-name "Patti-Cake" and second, we d...
(Fictional story about fictional characters) (A stand-alone story) *** Setting her cell phone down on the kitchen counter, Penny turned to Leonard, who had just entered the apartment, and posed the question, "I bet you can't guess where we're going to be two weekends from now?" "Well, as long as there is a bed and you in the equation...I'm in," he grinn...
At sometime or other, we must have all been presented with an opportunity that was a dead cert, but chose to walk away. For whatever reason. Whether it be the wrong time, the wrong place or even the wrong person. We've all done it. I try not to dwell on such matters, but every now and then a memory will come back and prey on my mind. This has happened to...
Fraser was sitting at the bar nursing his second pint before heading home to his wife, Charity. His mind was in turmoil; they had been married just short of four years, she was beautiful, had a heavenly figure and loved him dearly but .......... there's always a but isn't there? So what was the problem with this dream marriage? What is normally the problem -...
Chapter 26 "The Wedding" But it did! The next few months we planned the wedding with the help of our moms except for Debra's, who said she was happy for her but could do nothing about it because her father was dead set against her life away from the church. Debra found grace, kindness and a full embrace from Gladys's and my moms. She seemed very content w...
Author's Note: The Wife and the Black Gardeners was the second story I ever wrote and my first to feature an interracial theme. A comic version came out a few years ago followed by two sequels. This story is based on my comic script for part 2 and the art of Kaos. For this follow-up, I borrowed the plot from another of my stories, "Xavier's Modeling Job." *...
The Contest & More Professor Horowitz was all smiles as Mark entered his office late in the afternoon. "Good, good, I'm glad you could make it, Mark," the old professor said with a friendly chuckle. "Yes, Professor, is there something wrong with my project? Mark inquired, for he was puzzled by the urgency of the professor's request to appear in his office...
Part 1 – The Trespass It was a smoldering summer morning, normal for Phoenix, when I chose to climb the wooden, six-foot-tall fence separating our backyard from our neighbor's, to retrieve the basketball that had inadvertently bounced into their yard the previous day. I absolutely hated going over to a neighbor's house, knocking on the door, and requesting...