Narlissa Quickhands, half-elf and master thief, grumbled as she stared down at the magical pendant around her neck. Beneath her Faeht gracefully walked along and Narlissa knew her loyal horse would stick to the road without fail, which meant she could focus on what was annoying her. The pendant was not working. It was supposed to turn her invisible but it w...
As Joan Miller looked out the kitchen window in hopes that she would be having company, with even the Jehovah's Witnesses being a welcome diversion from the boredom, the irony of how at 48 her life had come full circle from when she was a teen was not lost on the woman. She had come a long way, she thought as she looked at the rusted out swing set somehow st...
You want great furniture and live in Ohio, you think Amish. Granted it takes going down the gravel roads and reading hand painted signs, but most of the time the only thing better than the craftsmanship is the price. That's what got me pulling into an Amishman's place just last week, the guy at the harness-maker's shop saying this Junior was the one to see a...
It's getting later in the afternoon as you walk down the path towards the barn. The oak trees and rolling hills are bathed in golden sunlight the way they are during just that time of day, and the particles are dancing beautifully in the air, seeming to delight in the shafts of light. "The horses need some time today." That's the excuse you used to get out h...
July 10 Dear Margaret, I imagine as you read this letter you are sitting at your desk, eyeglasses firmly in place, dark red hair bunched in a neat ponytail, soft curls licking at your waist. Right now you are probably dressed in your usual outfit, a plain skirt, white blouse, and stockings complimented by plain black dress shoes, your countenance looking...
Walking into the barn where I boarded my horse I was met with a sight I hadn’t expected. The barn owner’s eldest son, Jon, was there with his farrier truck, shoeing horses. My mare was long over due and I wasn’t exactly ready to face his lecture for letting her feet grow so long but I had already been spotted so it was no use trying to get out of it. The bar...
Chapter 4: Amanda's Mom in Action "What's the knife for?" Brian asked. "I'm going to measure you," she said, matter-of-factly. He let her undress him. She got down on her knees, knife in hand. "How should I go about this? When a guy says he'd nine inches, where does the measurement start?" "Just don't stab me with that," Brian laughed. "It's a butter kn...
Mary Beth sat on the old couch in the living room of her mother's house. She was turned sideways with her hands together on the back of the couch and her chin resting on her hands. Her eyes were sweeping the rain soaked front yard and the narrow two lane black top road beyond that. Everything was wet to the point of being soggy. It had rained every day since...
In recent years, the music industry had been changing quite dramatically. Many of the top recording artists had gone on to pursue other activities and passions, some had even semi-retired from music altogether. Cynthia Anderson's music career was still going strong but she had found getting involved with activism to be just as fulfilling. Her passion was ani...
Part 1: First Arrival: Stripper Dani Dix remembered she had just finished dancing for a guy at his bachelor party, and then she and the guys began to drink and tell jokes. Then she remembered at one point, she blacked out; her last sight was one of the lights on the ceiling. The next thing Dani knew, it was the next morning. She slowly came to on a surface...