HER My name is Caitlyn James. I have been married to Steve for three years. From the moment I met him until just recently I have been happier than I ever thought possible. For some reason, though, he has moved out of our home. He thinks I have been having an affair. I haven't but I'm angry at his lack of trust in me. He doesn't seem to realise that I love h...
4. Ben stared at the poster awestruck. He held the poster in his hand as he slowly walked down the street. Where was he, this man who could heal any wounds? He had to get to work; the newspaper archives might have some information on this man. He headed to the printing press. It was a few blocks away in the brick covered city. The sun was beginning to com...
Adrienne stepped outside of her townhouse eleven blocks east of Rittenhouse Square. She was on her way to the library to renew two books she never got around to reading. Feeling a sting in the air, she wrapped her scarf around her neck and tied a knot under her chin. The remaining snow against the curb had turned black with exhaust. On a whim, she looked to...
Mardi Gras, surely everyone is familiar with the crazy happenings in the Big Easy during this festive time of year. But try working in New Orleans during that time. For myself and a few other nurses that's when you made the big bucks. Every year the nurses who resided in the City that Never Slept wanted off to enjoy the parades, ignore the traffic and some j...
Note: Ahoovah is the Hebrew word for beloved. * Chaya shifted again on the pew wishing that the Rabbi would hurry up. Normally she had no problem sitting through Shabbat service, but tonight she felt restless and edgy, as if something was about to happen, and she found it hard to sit through the meandering thought train of his reflection on the Torah porti...
The sun streamed through the windows as I opened my eyes on that special day last week. I only had a sheet draped across my lithe body as the weather was so warm and I lay there enjoying the fact that I didn't have to go to work today. Today was going to be one of my days, I was due to meet one of my friends for lunch and then I was going out on the town ton...
Chapter 1 - The First Encounter When Tim first spied Lois it was in passing in one of the passageways of their winding office complex. As they passed each other they exchanged brief smiles as co-workers do and continued along their separate ways—although their minds immediately formed visions of the other. Tim was an older and married man, who was beginnin...
To avoid the crowds at a Presidential election, I chose, for the first time, to vote early. Well, it was the last day for early voting, and everyone must have been thinking the same as me, as the lines were nevertheless long when I arrived during the lunch hour. I finally found a parking space on the far side of the giant church parking lot and had just pull...
Charly sighed and leaned against the bar, waiting for the cook to throw up the last platter of wings of the night, shifting on her tired paws with a flick of her ears. Her amber eyes flicked to the clock as the cook thrust the red tray across the warming station, and he hit the bell with a forceful ding. "Order up!" He bellowed, looking right at her. "Real...
Haley, 'The Hitter' Lester, took her punches her arms raised up over her face her opponent trying to punch Haley threw her guard. Despite the sweat running off her forehead, she was remarkably focused, dodging away from her opponent until she saw an opening and jabbed out striking the girl she was facing in the toned flesh of her stomach. She dropped her rig...