I always celebrate my August birthday with a morning run. I run most days anyway, but when it's my birthday I'm more intentional about thinking of it as a celebratory moment. This is especially true when I reach the milestone of another decade. Today I'm turning 40. Wow! I think back to my 20th birthday -- I was a college student. I think back to my 30th --...
Marinah finished reading the morning Straits Times about the deputy prime minister Anhar being charged on ten counts of corruptions and sodomy. She threw the Times over the table to the couch opposite. "Asshole", breathed Marinah. Some people just don't cover up their tails leaving telltale signs all over the place. Sex scandals, sodomy, incest and the like...
Chapter one: The Long Haul From the diary of James Down: Friday, January 20th. Sometimes I think I'll survive the long haul. The odds are against it (they're long odds), but sometimes I think I'll make the journey. Then I look around--and I don't have to look far, or for very long; the evidence is all around, in body bags--and I realise that nobody reall...
Note: Starting from the scene where Don and Will are leaving the alternate Jupiter 2 with the Robot. As Don and Will left the future wreckage of the Jupiter 2, Will saw something to their left, “Over there!” he shouted, as he ran towards the body of Dr. Smith with Don following close behind. Don could tell right away from the unsettling crooked bent in Smith...
SO FAR: Maggie marries to become Mrs de Lacey but the honeymoon is scarcely over before she and Ryan are split over a major business decision with Ryan taking the moral high ground; he goes off to sleep at a motel. Gradually Maggie through the support of her mom realizes she has put self before community. In fact she accepts she has little knowledge of what...
***The Dream Series are based on actual dreams that I have had.*** * I was in Hawaii on a short personal vacation. I had never gone on a vacation by myself before and found myself spending endless hours sitting on the beach reading books and relaxing in the silence I couldn't get at work. Unfortunately it was time to leave the tranquility of my temporary p...
Clara sat in the gloom in the kitchen of her lake cabin. The sun had set without her. Soon no sunsets would have her adoring gaze. She was terminally ill. She had considered going home to Felicity but decided that it would be cruel to have her mother and sisters watch her die. She did not want them to suffer too. Her cancer had spread throughout her body....
The first place anyone really heard of it was large outbreaks in Thailand. No one knew what it was but the government played it off as a life choice via simple operation. But it was more then that. Minor cases were reported all over the world until 2011 the government in an effort to quell what they called an infection told the earth the truth about the wond...
The story so far: I was left owning a spare ticket of two for a holiday in the Caribbean, and persuaded a total stranger, Lesilia (Les), to join me, purely for the holiday and some no-strings sex. On our first night on the beach we met up with Richard and Sue who happened to be engaged in a discreet moonlight coupling at the same as we were performing a simi...
The White Duck Charlotte bolted upright in her bed, gasping for breath. Her eyes darted around the dark room. For a few minutes, she wasn’t sure where she was, or why she felt so terrified. This can’t be happening again, she thought as her mind began to reassemble some sort of order. She laid back down and put her hand on her chest. Her heart was beating...