Author's Note: I am sure that you guys can already tell where this part of the story will end, but it's just another chapter of the events that have taken place. I am grateful at the comments the previous chapters have received, and I am keeping them in mind as each chapter is produced. I will apologize ahead of time because this will be the last chapter for...
Katie was having a wild meaningless dream. She saw she was standing naked around a bunch of people. All of them were either her family member or her adult life friends. She suddenly noticed her mom crying at a corner hiding from the rest of the crowd. She walked past the group of people to her surprise nobody tried to grope her or abuse her in anyway. Sh...
SYNOPSIS: Aided by Princess Medea and her favorite lady-in-waiting, Lascivia, Jason has stolen the Golden Fleece from the city state of Colchis, which is located on the eastern shore of the Black Sea. He had been commissioned to do so by King Pelias of Iolcus, who was Jason's uncle, and who had murdered Jason's father, the previous king. Pelias had promised...
A Loving Night in the Desert We had made it out of the Xtrax building without being discovered by the Russians, but I was still shaking. Scott drove quickly, but I couldn't tell what direction we were going in. I put my head between my knees and tried to pull myself together. My jumpsuit and underwear were completely soaked with sweat. Stinky, nasty adrenal...
Author's note: This is the second part of a two-part series of stories in the fourth semi-annual Jake Rivers Invitational, this one based on country-and-western songs. This story is based on John Prine's "Angel From Montgomery," as sung by Bonnie Raitt. It picks up after Rosalie, describing her first true love to her recently-heartbroken granddaughter, tell...
My goal was to write something that was a little sweet and little romantic. I wanted to create a story where an attraction was evident early but true affection grew slowly. Hopefully, I came reasonably close to succeeding and I'm sure I'll hear about it if I didn't. Thanks for taking the time to read Contract Extensions. * * * * * Jerry Hernandez was one o...
A/N: This is a fanfic telling of Dragon Age: Origins, an RPG game produced by Bioware. This interlude is moderately AU involving Fem!Cousland/Cailan Theirin and the events happening before and after the attack on Highever Castle as well as Ostagar. The timeline does jump around a good deal in this tale. So bear with me. ~~~ Highever----4½ years prior to Os...
"Oh my gosh, Addy!" She screamed when I opened the door. There she stood, wearing a overly thick thermal coat, huge pants that looked like you could have your own heating unit kept in there, and some earmuffs that hung from her neck. "Gah, you still calling me Addy, Laila?" I chuckled and gave her a signal to come in as I picked up her bags. "Damn! You do k...
"I have to correct these papers," I explained to the tall slender man who was standing next to me while I shuffled things around on my desk. "Give me ten minutes." "You know where I'll be Miss Provost," Ray said while walking behind me, pausing to squeeze my shoulders My eyes went to the long ebony fingers which stood out starkly against my canary yellow b...
Chapter 1 The international shipping line's smallest vessel, Sea Discovery, with 366 cabins, left Southampton on a 7-day mini-cruise at 8 am, gliding through a lingering mist in a busy harbour with fog-horns sounding mournfully, those conditions subduing the excitement of passengers a little. But the complimentary bottle of chilled Champagne in each cabin,...