Karen was up before her nephew the next morning and, as she got breakfast ready, she thought about her date with Bud Murtagh the night before: * * * * * * * * * Bud took her to a nice, but modest. "Sorry I couldn't afford anything fancier," he apologized once they were seated. "The food here's pretty good, even if the surroundings are a little plain." "I...
This takes place out of time. It is meant to be read during the Chi-Town Trilogy. *** Julie started out on bad terms with his partner Duane. They had been ring rivals before they teamed up to track down bail skips for Springer's Bail Bonds. Duane had planned on adding Julie to his win record. His manager thought having Julio Duran the son of former famous...
"... Do I have to be here?" Cole asked anxiously. His mother was turned away from him, busy with taking out several trays of lasagna out of the oven. "I can stay at a friend's house or something..." Christina, as his mother was named, sighed heavily. "It's only for one night, Cole. I know what she's like, but you can't just avoid her." After setting the las...
Sumitra said, 'Manish, what's wrong with you? I think, the girl is seriously good looking.' 'Mom, if you think so, you should marry her.' 'That doesn't even make sense. Of these two pictures, I like the one where she is wearing a sari,' she told her son, while he flipped through the pictures on his laptop. 'This is the twelfth girl you have rejected.' 'M...
Anne brought the car carefully to a halt in Ralph's and Georgina's driveway. Unusually, Brian had agreed to take the passenger seat. Normally he preferred to drive whenever they went anywhere together as he was a better driver than a passenger. However it was New Year's Day and he'd had quite a bit to drink during the early morning festivities and Anne had i...
Smoothly confident, Lucas Hunter (18) joined the Spring Break exodus from his college in Denver, taking one of the lined-up buses to the airport to board a 2½ hour flight to LA. Aunt Laura. his mother's youngest sister, had arranged to meet the flight to take Lucas to her townhouse in Santa Monica. The student considered his 32-year-old aunt rather hot, d...
This story does refer to bodily functions. If this offends you, read no further. All characters are 18 or over. ***** Maureen Kent had never thought twice about spanking her son and daughters, now that they had moved back into the family home. The eldest, Donna, had graduated college and at 24, had landed a good position in an up-and-coming venture capital...
At sixteen they called Crysta piccola Sophia, for her resemblance to the young Sophia Loren. At thirty-nine she was beginning her third decade as the most beautiful woman not just in Scandicci, but all of Tuscany. One dreary September afternoon her husband, an industrialist, came home unexpectedly, caught her making love to the wife of a rival and threw her...
Author's Note for readers: this contains a grisly prelude to revenge and has a great deal of controversial ideas. It is not meant to advocate anti-abortion sentiments, but rather to use the issue as the basis for a Gothic horror tale of vengeance and magic. It is intended for a theme befitting Halloween. Don't start anonymously flaming or trolling for what c...
"So, Kassim, you mean to tell me that you're an illegal immigrant?" Zara Desmarais said softly, and the young tomboy looked anxiously at the young man who sat opposite her. Inside the crowded Eaton Shopping Center food court in downtown Toronto, thousands of people milled about, embarking on lengthy shopping sprees. Once upon a time, Zara Desmarais, a small-...