The Bavarian Hunter, a gast haus owned by friends, is as easily familiar to all of us as our own homes. Veronica glances around at the nine of them, sitting on the huge open deck next to a blazing fire. Surrounded by the glow of good friends, good wine and wonderful conversation, she basks in contentment, sprawled lazily, belly down, on a long wooden bench,...
Saturday morning. Dawn! The LeGend Manor. "EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEK!" Gus LeGend leaps up in his bed removing his light blinder from his eyes. Babs merely groans beside him, "It's only Nina. Go back to sleep, Augustus." Gus leers down at her, "Good lord, woman. I haven't heard that kind of banshee scream since Nina was a baby." Another round of s...
I did not choose to write this story. I feel like I was possessed by this eighteenth century woman whom made me write this. She stopped me while I was working on a series of stories which I felt was nearing its end and would not let me go back to it until I finished her story. I mean, she wouldn't even let me write a complete sentence of my story during th...
Donna was overjoyed with her first horse. She had been begging and borrowing rides for a couple of years now, and taking lessons whenever she could afford it. A nice bonus at work finally enabled her to look for her very own horse. Through her sister, she heard of a neighbor who occasionally sold horses, and before long she had settled on a little bay mare c...
-The Full Moon Retreat- Episode: The First Search and Rescue Mission Chapter 9: The ultimatum... To the reader: Boy! What a week this has been! First, a hardware crash, fixed that. Then before I could catch my breath, Mozilla updates Firefox and it clashes with Norton Identity Protection and that starts crashing my system. Enough! Well... I didn't "fee...
Superf****er Volume 5: Trapped I could barely pick my head up from the bar far enough to order another double scotch. Not because I was drunk, although I was trying very hard to become such, but because I was despondent. Nineteen years from today, the Earth was going to be hit by an antimatter comet and the entire inner half of your solar system would be ob...
To all our readers, we sincerely thank you for the words of encouragement. Lilandra and Beast thank you as well. Happy reading! * Her head was throbbing as she opened her eyes to the bright sunlight streaming in. She had lost count of the days she had been here with Beast and Lynn but last night's events were still fresh in her mind. How had she managed t...
I was at Jasper National Park in Canada camping by myself. I had become used to camping by myself, I had not wanted that but everyone I knew had outgrown that stage of their lives. I had a semi girlfriend but she was not a teacher and could not take off on long camping trips. I assuaged her feelings by taking her to Las Vegas as soon as I got back home. I...
My wife, Kathy, and I are in out mid thirty's's. We dated in high school and then I went into the navy. We were a couple while I was enlisted but didn't marry until I got out. Kathy was free to have her experiences while I was gone as was I, so neither of us was totally inexperienced when we did get married. Our tenth anniversary is coming up soon. Kathy is...
A place calling itself Earth. Inhabited by a people calling themselves Human. The year is 518 CE, and the local species is seriously considering colonizing their nearest planetary neighbor, a planet they call Mars. Cell phones are 'smart'. Cars are beginning to drive themselves. Computers are learning how to learn and how to teach other computers to learn...