Lady shadow tried to maintain a solemn mien, but she her smile kept sneaking up on her lips. Shana knocked politely on the parlor door. "Excuse me Mistress, General Darial reports that the grounds and mansion are clear of bog mimics." "Is there any report on our casualties?" 'Lyssa asked. Shana nodded briskly. "We have confirmed 30 of our staff and visito...
Thank you to everyone reading this story. Thank you, Tinkz, for your super editing skills. ******** The only place I could go was to my parents'. I tried calling my mother on her cell but it immediately went to voicemail. I didn't bother trying my father; he never used his phone. It didn't matter because it wasn't as if they'd turn me away. At least, I...
Two people, drawn together by a bet, meet, perhaps fall in love, but separate, one to pursue another love and the continuation of a career, the other to salvage a business and forget the heartache. As each grapples with their demons they plod forward; spinning off, errant comets into different realities. They wonder if the decisions they made were good ones...
1) My office literally sprung a leak. The company I worked for was leasing an old building. The roof gave in and a load of accumulated water dumped into the office space. We were all sent home early. I arrived home at approximately 2:00 PM and saw a familiar vehicle parked on the street in front of our house. It belonged to our friends Jim & Sabrina. Sabr...
I think the sight of that farmhouse kitchen will live with me for the rest of my life. I'd attended my fair share of murder scenes before, but I felt slightly faint when I first saw that. The man's body was face down on the floor, his head still attached to the rest only by a small flap of skin, a black pool of dried blood staining the floor tiles beneath hi...
Something slightly different from me. Hope you have as much fun reading it as I did writing it. Let me know your thoughts on it, please. Feedback is my key motivation! As always, all characters exist only within the confines of the story and in my imagination! Enjoy! * My mother always told me to "Never judge a book by its cover," which is pretty corny, b...
Thomas rode onto his new property around mid day on a cold January day. His future plans were thrown into turmoil and his last chance at any future. His new home and business was also a new start for him as well. Thomas was now free of his father's rule, and had talked him into handing over some of the families land to him. Thomas liked to think it was his f...
Many thanks to Greowulf for his wonderful editing. ***** The next couple of days went by without any further progress in their investigation. Sherry was tied up incorporating feedback and edits for her new storyline, but in the evenings she would be beside Stella in the hospital. Even after her discharge it was decided that Stella will not be left alone....
As Jim Morrison of The Doors had once sung, "Strange days have found us". The banks were over extended and started to fail. Huge corporations, once the bedrock of the economy, started to approach bankruptcy and laid off large numbers of employees. Before you knew it the country was in a fast slide to chaos and recession. Then it got worse! My name was Jim M...
My first full day in South Africa headed toward its end and aware I had felt very lonely exploring the town, its shops and wandering along the beach, I questioned the wisdom of three weeks seven thousand miles from London. Shops closed and too early for dinner at my hotel, I killed time in 'Deja's' -- its owner's abbreviation of 'Déjà vu' -- an apt name for...