Ah but when I hear the laughter 'Round a jangling country fair Or hear a pennywhistler In a merry market square In a field of twilight children Her face is laughing up at me And then she ain't nothing but time -Tony Bird, "Nothing But Time" Eddie was hard at work on the latest brief for the factory management when the whistle blew down the street. He look...
Irena was cold. She was so cold that she felt as if her bones had been glazed in ice. She stumbled and almost fell into a ditch on the side of the road, but managed to steady herself in time. Her jeans were soaking wet to the knees with slush and her shoes squelched with every step she took. She had been so stupid. She could be in the limo with Soto right no...
Planetfall Chapter 2 Marriage Year 20 R (Republic Era), two weeks ago Following her prophetic revelation, Lil spun around on her toes and stepped through the yawning deck hatch to the main deck above, leaving me alone in my reverie. Lil's mother, Gillian, formerly my step-mother, and previously my once-beloved Aunt Gill, the sister of my deceased mother...
My life was perfect. I had a beautiful young loving wife, two tiny beautiful little girls. Enough money so we lived very comfortably. We really enjoyed our life. Then we were invited by our best friends to help them put on a benefit program to help raise money for a Foundation. Our friends, Savanna and Jonas Lambert, had a foundation that provided plastic s...
Author's Note: "And now for something completely different . . . " This story is a switch from my usual fare. I tried to keep the deep soul searching by the characters to a minimum. I also made no effort to make my characters or the situations realistic. This is a satirical farce. The characters are intended to be caricatures. All the women are beautifu...
The waiting room is small, functional yet intimate, a quiet and respectful place with a handful of seats set around three of the walls. You take a seat and glance at the clock on the wall, there's 5 minutes until your appointment. With a deliberate, slow, deep breath you check in on your heart, feeling her familiar race and willing her to be calm, she's sa...
LEVERIA The previous night had been a sleepless one. I'd sat in my office, drinking wine and contemplating the mirror before me. Its twin was hanging over Elena Straltaira. She was awake, staring up at herself, a thin rectangle of moonlight shining on her face. Though her jaw was swollen, her eyes were bloodshot, and her face was filmed with dried sweat and...
**** -- CHAPTER 6: Marseille -- **** *-- JULY, MONTAUK, NEW YORK --* Sharpley had snatched Cassandra in Manhattan. We always traveled with security outside of the mansion and outside of the JKE building. I knew for a fact that Fat Tony would have made damn sure nothing bad would happen to his favorite blonde bombshell, were he with her. But he wasn't. I...
Disclaimer: I do not own Arrow or anything to do with DC. I do not make any money from the writing of this story. ***** "Laurel, is everything okay?" Laurel blushed bright red, but thankfully her back was to her ex-boyfriend, and she was just about able to get herself under control by the time she turned around and as convincingly as she could told him, "...
There was once a curious young scholar who, on a lonely december, decided to escape the frigidity of the city and the ivory tower of academia. Unfortunately, it seemed that the december would remain lonely no matter what: he had no sense of home, and he lived with his nose in books. He spent the wee hours of the night in a damp, dark basement, descending fro...