"Goodnight, Mrs. Stanhope!" The chorus of eight year old voices rang out raggedly, usually emanating from an upturned smiling face, as class 4 filed out of the room, higgledy piggledy, jostling and untidy, eager to embrace the relative freedom of the outside world their parents' cars, fish fingers for tea, "Blue Peter" on television, et al. Julie Stanhope s...
Thank you to Duke Supernature for editing and formatting ***** It was a cold October morning. Louise got out of bed and thought about what the new day would bring. She got up and gathered the things she would need for the day. Today was a day like no other, tonight would be a night filled with pure passion; a night she had been thinking about for what seem...
The night is lonely, cold, and charged with static and I have decided to come to you. A long, flowing black leather jacket protects a lacy top, tight skirt, and black knee-high boots from the falling rain. This dismal weather had come up quite suddenly, just as my desires for you fired up in an instant the moment thunder began rumbling and lightning tore thr...
It's 4:48 AM by the clock on the nightstand. I can hear you stirring behind me in the bed, your arm reaches out instinctually to find my waist and snuggle in. Knowing how hard I find it to sleep without you, I wonder do you do that even when I'm away, and when you find the bed empty, do you clutch the pillows close and pretend it's me? I'm watching the snow...
Once he stuffed himself back into his pants and he got his clothes all situated, he grabbed the blindfold and told Billy to turn around. "Why do I have to put the blindfold back on?" She questioned quietly. She was a little confused since they were already there and she hadn't even taken a moment to look at the scenery as they were driving there. She knew n...
She entered her bedroom, dropping her purse and jacket in the chair. Leaning in toward the dresser mirror, she removed her earrings and the clips that held up her hair when something in the reflection caught her eye. She felt a knot in the pit of her stomach as she turned around to see his belt coiled up on her pillow. She fell back against the dresser, her...
The first time Alexx had seen her was completely by accident. He'd had his face buried in his kill when he heard a soft footfall. With a soft growl he pulled the deer into the dense brush bordering the path. Silent and still he waited for the intruder to pass him. When the trespasser cleared the trees Alexx found all the air had left him. She was stunning,...
Fall in Walsilla, Alaska was always special. The air was clear and chilly; the leaves had turned golden brown and were making their journey to the ground. Sarah stood by the shore of Lake Lucile closing her eyes momentarily before taking a deep breath of the cool calm air. The chill made Sarah zip her red exercise jacket further up her neck. She noticed that...
Ricky had sworn off gambling, scores of times though no resolution had ever stuck. With a marriage and a mortgage already in the wind because of his addiction to slot machines, you’d think this young man would have learned his lesson already. But he’d be the first to ‘fess up' that, next to sex, nothing got him off like a long, smoking run on the tables down...
There is no sex in this chapter. ******** I was floating in that heavenly ether that exists somewhere between sleep and awake when the memory emerged from the black. I could see us riding the crowded bus that stirred the dry dust on a meandering road along the shoreline of Jamaica. Karen and I had only been married about a year, and we had finally managed...