The International Bank of Trade and Commerce Kloser prides himself in the success of his bank. He owns many all around the world. There is one in every state capital as well as one in the capital of over thirty countries around the world. He opened his first bank in Austria, his home country. It has served as the headquarters ever since. Building his weal...
The cold, late December wind blew down 7th Avenue making swirls of soft white snowflakes here and there outside the small Lonesome Dove Funeral Chapel and Off-Track Betting Parlor. The cheap, twinkling Christmas lights and fake fir bows wrapping the telephone pole on the corner looked, if anything, just as gaudy and cheap as the suit Harry Dick was wearing....
Paul's kayak, slid down the slow brown river. He was well into the holiday, to kayak the length of the river. It had long ceased to be the lively stream leaping in stony river beds, that it had been near its source, and now it crawled across flat sparsely populated fenlands, Slow and lazy between high reeded banks, on a long sinuous progression to the sea T...
It was late summer, and the weather was warm and sticky. You couldn't see the sun. The sky was white-grey. It felt like there could be a storm later. That might have been why the boathouse in Oxford was so empty – the weather was rather too…well, too "English" for the tourists, and the students were away for the summer. But Chris and I had driven this far,...
Chapter Four: Felony Dressing Cassie for her role had been the subject of much conversation and consternation during her training. She needed to dress in attire suitable for her to safely ride her bike and she needed to look attractive to the other bikers; but she couldn't look like 'fender fluff', she needed credibility. She and Natalie had finally decide...
"We're here tonight to honor my friend and partner Ben Mitchell as Banker of the Year," Perry Bergen intoned from the dais to applause from the audience in the ballroom of the Palace Hotel. Sitting at the head table just to the right of the podium, Ben tried to look simultaneously humble and gratified. The truth was that he'd rather be almost anywhere else...
Jack arrived at Dot's a couple of minutes before three, Jack was excited, mum hadn't been online all day. Jack thought she must be having a long lunch with her girlfriend, Dot came out of the lounge when Jack went into the house, she looked stunning, she was showing a lot of cleavage and a lot of leg. She looked terrific in a mini-skirt. She also looked ten...
The day started off as usual, but it was going to be a 'special' delivery that day! On every Wednesday the security truck brings to the bank all the money needed to make it through the daily ins & outs of banking. I've had the responsibility of making sure the Vault was fully stocked over the years. Just recently the Security Company had changed drivers. Wel...
This story is getting more complex than I ever intended. Still, it's been a lot of fun writing. I'm not getting much feedback, so I may wrap it up in the next edition, but for those who have provided input, thank you! In this next chapter, our heroine continues to struggle to maintain her powers, while being introduced to a villain who could spell her doom....
John My wife woke me up at 10:30 PM, When she got home from work, asking me why I was sleeping in the guest bedroom and I told her we would talk tomorrow night when she gets home as I need my sleep because I have to be to work early tomorrow. She said she will be late tomorrow also and I replied I know you will do what's right and turned over and went back...