CHAPTER 1 Control of the town of Pike's Point midway up Charlotte Inlet towards its terminal at the industrial city of Mornington had been in the grip of the of the James family for thirty-two years. This was the sixth election that the Pike's Point Progressive Association had failed to attract a candidate to stand against the next-in-line James male. Cur...
This is a slow start to a series, but it will start heating quickly in the next chapters. i would love to hear from female readers if the fact that the story is written in the first person, from the point of view of a man, is preventing them from connecting with the story or the characters. * "I can't believe it's almost the end of the semester! I thought...
It was May 5th... I was driving back to Pittsburgh after spending some time in California, and why I took the southern route instead of that dull and boring I-70 through the heartland, I'll never know, but there I was, just moseying along I-40, my hands tapping the steering wheel to the rhythm on the radio... had to keep rollin'... (little poetic license the...
Our hero looked out onto the front of their yard here in the small town of Crossroad cove. A small sleepy coastal town, founded by Franciscan monks a 2 centuries and change ago the town was originally one of hundreds of little East coast towns that dotted from Maine to Florida. Small town but with a lot to offer. Crossroad Cove had started out as the name su...
Smallpox! Just the sound of the word sent chills up my spine. Remembering the history of Deadwood from my past gave a real feeling of dread. From what I remembered, Deadwood lost almost half its people due to the smallpox epidemic in August of 1876. This was something that sent fear all through my mind as to what I could do about it. I wasn't worried about...
Dan wakes me on this day, not because he is awake or moved. Instead his equipment is in the ready state and he is moving a little. Perhaps I am moving instead but it is so good feeling. Look around and while the sky is not lit for the sun yet it will be soon so good time for morning roll. Course Dan is not aware yet so have to ride. Enjoy riding so just sta...
This scene is set in black and white. It is not darkened unnecessarily, nor are there the shadows and clouds of a storybook forbodance. Instead the day is bright and the lining, crisp, a scene accented only by the stray strands of sunlight filtering through a rustle of leaves. The outstretched fingertips of an early winter comb through the treetops as a slen...
You are what some people call a hand in the night. Less pretentious people, such as yourself would say that you’re a burglar. Sure it may be kind of a dick move to break into other people’s houses and steal their stuff but maybe they should protect their stuff. It wasn’t like you could actually do anything else. Stealing was all you knew how to do, and all y...
This one may end up being a little bit epic, perhaps not as well. Just warning ya, or perhaps making ya worry for no reason. :p ** Balik wakes early on this day, bad dream would think. Luckily Dan gets up to go see him, tried once and Balik was not that happy with it. So Dan goes, while he goes to get Balik calmed down check out the window. Close enough to...
Khaled was wandering helplessly in the darkly lit street. Arriving at a small bar, he entered and sat at the counter asking for a shot of vodka. Looking next to him, he saw Salim, a friend he has met at his new university. Salim was also drunk and sobbing heavily. Seeing that he was not alone in bad mood, Khaled went and sat next to Salim. “I see we are bot...