*This story plays fast and loose with Ancient History and Linguistics; be warned* *You may outrun your sins, but never forget that someone will pay the toll* *Reader-editors yet again, and quite a few. The faults remain mine* (Later Friday) "Having a bad day?" Pamela stopped our lesson. "I apologize. I am having trouble focusing on the lesson today,"...
CHAPTER 1 Judith Kennedy smiled at she looked out the small kitchen windows of the holiday home at the lake. The dads and boys of the two families were playing soccer on the rough, just-mown lawn against the girls and the boyfriends of the older girls. The females were shrieking 'foul', 'that's not fair' and 'give us a chance to play the ball'. Roll back...
Billie worked on a proposal for the cattle and horse ranch novel and sent it off to Under the Tree Publishing with the working title of 'Into the Saddle." Her editor Jocelyn Winter emailed next day: "Hi sweet young woman. We accepted your proposal this morning. Gary our executive editor pointed out we have a publishing slot four months hence, so it's yours...
My name is Martin. Characters and events in this story are fictional. Chapter One I'd spent twelve of my thirty-two years in Miami, Florida. I'd taken a job at an exotic car dealership after completing an Associate's degree in Sales and Marketing. I began as a floor associate, greeting and engaging the high-end walk-in clientele. Then I moved into the serv...
Author's Note: This series builds off of elements of the previous Panic Moon series. To get the full experience it is recommended, though not necessary, to read that one first. Okay folks, this one's going to be a little different. This is a side series to Panic Moon, focused more on the canon characters than the original ones that populate the main storyli...
* The setting is England. CHAPTER 1 The coach was full as it left Oathaven and headed north for London on the annual outing of the Women Against Family Violence Society. Husbands accompanied their wives or partners except for widow Marion Fanning who brought along her eldest, 20-year-old Freddie, a university undergraduate seeking a degree in banking and f...
Jason woke to the sunlight streaming through his apartment window and blinked against the bright light. He smiled, knowing that today was going to be a good day! Having found out Brad's secret and exposing him, had dusted the bastard in a way that he would never recover! He still shivered at the thought of what both he and his dad had gotten away with for al...
Chapter 1 Stella Rauth's mother Marianne ranted when her youngest daughter announced she wouldn't be going to college. As the sparks began to fly, her father David intelligently yelled he was going for a walk and disappeared. When he returned the house was still standing, nothing inside appeared broken and mother and daughter were in their respective bed...
Bet on Blood "I'm going to Charlotte's room. We're going to rent a movie." "Toni, call your mom and dad first." "I'll call them before I go to bed." "Call now. I told your mother you'd call when we got here." "Shiv, I..." "Don't. When we're going to a tournament, it's Coach, not Shiv. And I'm not asking you, I'm telling you. Call your mother, then call...
Tiffany and Ashley: the Case of the Hotel in the Wooded Hills "So Ashley, do you think this haunted hotel is actually, like, haunted?" Tiffany asked. "Ooh, I hope so! Don't want to drive all this way for nothing!" Ashley answered enthusiastically. "When are we supposed to be there?" Tiffany asked. "Hours ago, Tiff. But it doesn't really matter. It is a...