BRUSSELS, MID SEPTEMBER It was a curious day. I'd been expecting to spend the time being foolish, walking through the excitement of the capital of Europe, sharing silly jokes and anticipating dinner, and then dealing with a more basic appetite. Instead I felt almost surplus to requirements. Uli was younger than Magda but she seemed older and more experience...
After talking to Marie, Dawn and I quickly packed and then managed a fitful night's sleep before an early start. We headed east at six in the morning. You don't want to cross the passes tired in winter, and we were into mid-November. Snow at Snoqualmie Pass was measured in tens of feet and snowfall in tens of inches. We hit the pass at eight, Yakima a littl...
-------------------------------------- The following is fiction, intended to entertain. If it doesn't, by all means erase, exit or otherwise eliminate it from your life, as is your right. If I offend or disturb you in anyway, I am sorry, for that is not my intention. If by chance, I make you smile, or maybe wiggle in your seat, well, you'll be getting a tou...
It had all started out innocently enough. My wife had been babysitting the son of the young couple next door for a couple of years. Then they had a second child. The young wife had always been a good looking woman, long dark hair, plenty of curves, with a nice enough bosom that would have caught any man's stare. Only now that she had had the second baby, her...
I want to take this opportunity to thank "meathead96" for his invaluable, and capable editing skills and words of encouragement. * It was midday at the accounting firm of Stevens and Birkstrom, but Jon Henri Deveroux was characteristically at his workstation, poring over an open spreadsheet. It had never been unusual to find the affable, mid 40's accountan...
Marley When I was 27 years old, I began a new job in product marketing in the tech field at a Fortune 500 company. Okay, maybe it's more like Fortune 100; it is huge. I went from an office of 100 people to a company with well over 8,000 employees. I was one of many, many, many young people existing in a land of cubes. Over time, I became really good at my...
I do not own the characters (they are owned by Masashi Kishimoto).In this story Naruto and Tenten are both 18. Sixth Hokage Naruto Uzumaki Namikaze was on his way over to the forge that Tenten's father owned in the late afternoon. He was currently wearing his Hokage cloak which was an orange cloak with black flames and red markings on the collar similar...
My Thanks to Robert Nix and Billy Gilmore, who wrote this song and to Billy Joe Royal who recorded it and made it a hit in 1969. Cherry Hill Park (R. Nix/B. Gilmore) Mary Hill used to hang out in Cherry Hill Park The games she played lasted all day till way after dark All the girls they criticized her But all the guys just idolized her 'Cause Mary Hi...
Chapter X "Dad, what the hell is going on? The family is starting to talk! We've been here almost a week now and you are not acting right! You're normally pretty quiet, but this year it's like your heart has frozen over! It's almost like your best friend died a few minutes ago." I winced in pain! "God dammit, Benjamin! That's way too close to home!" I pul...
Dick on Jane - Improbable Futures Janus Hemming was an average girl with a very unaverage name when she started high school. She was mousy with straight blonde hair and glasses, short for her age, barely an A cup, with no distinguishing features. The most unique thing about her was her name, but because it was so unusual she told people to call her "Jane" i...