Aaron and Rachel had just turned 18 when the elders of their religious community brought them together and asked if they wanted to be man and wife. They were both part of a very small religious community living in adjoining valleys where everybody made their living based on agriculture. They were part of that great westward move from Philadelphia and New Yor...
"Sign here!" I commanded, in a stiff voice. He was much older than I, by about 10 years, and I should have shown him more respect. But he had done the unforgivable and was to pay dearly. Many years before in my peasant past I had lived near my uncle in the village. I first met this man during those years when he came to visit my uncle, working on some book...
It was a very pleasant day in a large but rather quaint neighborhood. Spring, after a quick tease, had stepped in fully: the temperatures were warm, but not sweltering. Flowers were beginning to grow. Children were running about in the street, playing tag and poking ant hills. Men and women were talking long walks or reading on their porches. The newspaper p...
Chapter Seventeen Intrepid - 3755 C.E. The lawn surrounding the villa that Isaac and his five surviving comrades had secured was littered with the bodies of the recently slaughtered. One corpse belonged to Jacob who'd suffered a martyr's death in the struggle to secure the villa for true believers. Two belonged to the accursed heretical Baptists who'd obsti...
There is no sex in this story. It is instead an exploration of the double standards and hypocrisy that exist in today's society towards those people in the sex industry, the prostitutes and brothel owners who see themselves as participants in a service industry that sometimes caters for those who would destroy it. I am aware that I'm going out on a limb wit...
Note: This is something really different for me, inspired by a song that really touched my heart (if you've heard it, you'll probably know what it is). ----- The weak sun filtered through the bare trees as Jonah walked across the Millers' fields to get to Bethany's house. He listened to his feet crunching over the light snow, and wondered what Bethany's ne...
Disclaimer: Brenda is eighteen, Charlotte is thirty-nine, Frank is forty-seven, Jack is nineteen, Adella is eighteen, Frank's friend is forty-two, Pastor Brown is fifty-five, Frances is nineteen, Lacey is eighteen, Geraldine is thirty-eight, Mrs. Judith Bloom is thirty-two, Mrs. Sarah Bloom is forty, Mr. Bloom is forty-five, Mrs. Applegate is forty-one, Mrs....
Prologue A Virgin to lie in my bosom, George thought. That'd solve all my problems. Who would believe I'd find an answer like that in the Bible? 1 Kings, King James Bible 1 Now king David was old and stricken in years; and they covered him with clothes, but he gat no heat. 2 Wherefore his servants said unto him, Let there be sought for my lord the king a...
Sorry. If you're religious, hoping for incest or some thing weird don't bother- I'm sure you'll find another story to suit you. Thank you. ******************************************** She was clever. She didn't ask me to go to church with her. Instead she asked me to accompany her and listen to her sing in the choir. She said there would also be a lecture...
It was Nude Tuesday. She had heard the boys talk about it through the wall. Every Tuesday, all the guys would walk around their dorm naked. It seemed so strange to her. Why would they do that, especially at a church camp? Isn't that wrong, to walk around naked in front of each other? Of course, so much of what the guys did was strange, but she found herself...