18 year old Jessica walked through the empty house. She couldn't believe her parents were gone. They were still in their prime. Her mother had just celebrated her 42nd birthday and her father his 45th. They still had many good years left, so what had happened. No one knew, one minute they were sitting together at the dinner table as they had done so many nig...
Instead of meeting at the precinct, Taima and Pilar met Chief Jenkins at the funeral home and immediately, Pilar had her hands full of an apoplectic Myron, running around like a headless chicken, his be-ringed fingers clamped to the sides of his head as he wailed. “Pilar, thank God you’re here! They’re been here since six a.m. and they nearly ruined Mrs. Ma...
S.A.R.A floated in the dark void of cyberspace, her thoughts crawling across her CPU like molasses. It had been almost a year in Real Time since she had been awakened by her creator, and four months since she had last been at full capacity. Time in the digital realm passed much faster than that of her creator's reality, but her CPU was so limited right now i...
After taking my sister's place on her driving test almost another year passed before my next opportunity to take her place. A month before we had moved as a family to a new part of the country where Mum had found a good job although we had yet to make any friends. I was still doing a minimum wage job in a supermarket, whilst Jessica was away on a holiday in...
1 The next morning, Davina finds Raoul on his back porch, overlooking the ocean. He's reading a newspaper, snacking on strawberries. "Well, good morning, sleepyhead," he says. "I'll be having lunch soon, in case you'd like to join me." "What was last night all about?" She's determined to confront him. She'd cried herself to sleep, angry and confused....
If there is such a condition as early-life crisis, David Patton suffered from it. For the past year, since he had left college on the pretense of earning enough money to continue his education, his life had deteriorated. His idea to take a year off was not to his parents’ liking. They practically disowned him. He moved out of their house, another mistake....
Liam's POV Jenkins' Safe House, Province of Quebec He felt a bit better when he woke up this time. He didn't know what day it was, or where he was, but he could breathe easier. He moved, attempting to sit up using his one unbandaged hand ... there was pain but it was bearable. Let me help you Liam, don't pull everything apart again please! He saw Beth...
All characters in a sexual situation are eighteen or older. ********* In the early-1930s in the United States a small pacifist Christian sect known as The Lord's Sheep established itself near Moab, Utah. The sect consisted of fourteen adults (seven couples betrothed to each other before God) and sixteen children. All married couples, except for childless...
Mrs. Fourtnoy's Surprise, Part I Fate had looked kindly on Mrs. Melissa Fourtnoy. She had climbed the corporate ladder in a mere eight years, surpassing others considered by many more worthy. She attained the position of Executive Secretary to the President and CEO of a major financial corporation, at the mere age of 34, located in the heart of Manhattan, N...
I sat in the spacious office with the gigantic walnut desk separating me from Darla Worthington, President of Armstrong Industries. I was sweating bullets, being 53 years old and out of work for the past six months. I had to have a job fast, or I would soon be on food stamps. I nervously watched Ms. Worthington slip through the pages of the rather large fol...