One of the most unusual stories I covered in my long career as a political journalist was the race for mayor in the small town of Lackluster, Arizona. What first caught my attention was a brief news clip on television profiling one of the candidates, a dog named Harvey. I couldn't help but be curious about the forces in play that placed a candidate of such e...
Chapter 38 Over the next six weeks, Shaun was helping Aunt Vicky and learning the administration of The Crater and animal reserve. He and Sharron had driven to Nairobi for him to inspect the plants there. And for Sharron to have some clothes made and also select some furnishings for the home The war was continuing with advances made in Italy and every on...
Tom saw John coming in to the bar from their normal corner position and smiled at seeing his friend. Tom had been hoping that John would stop in and he seemed to have lucked out despite in being early in the evening and the bar being pretty empty. It had been a few weeks since they'd been able to get together. John was busy with something going on his life a...
Passion in James County XV: Ben and Nancy Chapter twenty-three Buddy Marks was walking down the street toward his house when he saw the police car swing onto the block. He knew the cops had arrested someone else for what he'd done to Trish and figured he was off the hook, but he started to get nervous when he saw a second police car coming down the street...
Abigail Clarke's POV I was exhausted, and my wolf was on edge by the time I left the plane in Moscow. Crying babies, turbulence and a businessman who stank of cigarettes and body odor, while ignoring my ring and trying to hit on me at 30,000 feet, pretty much did me in. I turned on my phone and texted my son I was on the ground before heading to baggage cla...
She was just a kid, living with her parents on Mesa Boulevard, a quarter mile or so from the police station. Over the summer between her junior and senior years in high school, she experienced what must be a record-setting growth spurt. She went from mousy to spectacular in three months. Living on one of the main drags in town assured that the local cops wou...
Hey, hope you're enjoying this story, just wanted to let you know that this chapter does not contain an erotic scene so if you're not into that you can skip it.(it does have some context that will be important in the following chapters) ***** Anduin travelled to Boralus through a secret portal in the depths of the palace. Officially, he was now out to insp...
The Conner Family Stories: Chapter 01 "A Gift On Christmas Eve" Chapter 02 "Gifts On Christmas Morning" Chapter 03 "Nightmares Of A Broken Promise" Chapter 04 "The Request" Chapter 05 "Love Across Town" Chapter 06 "The Photo - In Retrospect" Chapter 07 "Miracles In The Storm" Chapter 08 "Trouble With Pine Cones" Chapter 09 "Home At Last" Chapter...
The reaction didn't take long. Gunny sprung forward, grabbing Charlie Stillwater by the throat, and slammed him into the wall. Craig moved next to him, his eyes looking up into Charlie's as Gunny held him about a foot off the ground. "You killed Maitea. Why would you take my kill?" Charlie was strangely calm, like he expected to be choked half to death aft...
We lost one of our best men to this rather skilled matriarchy patrol. I was really pissed imagining Carl collared and controlled. That was no life for a male warrior. We decided to extract a little revenge. To an outsider it looked like we had gotten sloppy. It didn't hurt that most matriarchy military commanders held dim views at to our intellectual capacit...