My daughter Tami is a freshman at a local community college so she still lives with me at home. I'm a single mother and I don't have a lot of money, but I am proud of the fact that I'm able to at least give Tami some form of higher education. However, while living at home, I still expect her to live by my rules and not run wild like most college kids. A few...
I called Corinne. I emailed her. I sent her texts. I even contacted Marie, and got her address. I wrote her a letter, and mailed it. She wanted nothing to do with me. She didn't answer a single one of my attempts. I couldn't really blame her. We were having a fantastic weekend together. But now, for her, it would always be paired with the image of Rob's di...
This is the fourteenth installment of Mrs. Hart's Ache Chapter V "…She's under my thumb…" ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Author's note: see the Index of Terms for the definition of any word with which you are not familiar. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ This is a simple tale of retribution, wherein the young hero teaches the mother of his newest gir...
" . . . Idiot savants are illiterate, they are untrainable, Yet, they have access to a particular field of knowledge where they appear to be infallible" ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ Della tidied up the extra bedroom for Mikey. Her 3 year old granddaughter Chichi always left it a mess. She wiped all the finger prints off the TV. And checked to make...
I love Dartmoor, I always have. I love its bleak, rugged splendour, its harshness, its bright, clear days, its loneliness, and, oh, everything about it. I'd first fallen in love with the moor when, as a young girl, I spent time there with my grandmother whilst my parents went through their break up. She had a tiny cottage beside one of the narrow little lane...
I came in the house through the garage door. I was early, about a day early. I was just about to call out, announcing my arrival home, when I heard a sound that caused me to pause. I had been out of town on business but the offers made were unacceptable and I didn't need that kind of business anyway. They said their position was absolutely non-negotiable,...
The Teacher Sally Williamson had been the star pupil at her university and despite the wishes of her family had been determined to push forward with a teaching career. Her life had been one of plenty, and she told herself she needed to do something on her own. She had many brief flings at University building up a broad sexual knowledge from the men she dat...
Chapter 2 UPS and Downs Sensations ran through her as she slept. Familiar and unfamiliar. All of them more than welcome. Then she heard a voice close by. A male voice, harsh and unwelcome in her little bubble of comfort. Wondering who on earth it was, Sarah jerked awake. "...I'm sorry ma'am but there's nothing I can do. You fled the scene of a crime," the...
CHAPTER THREE – CONSEQUENCES The gutter press Sammy Ferris pulled the brim of his hat further down across his narrow eyes as he stood nonchalantly opposite the block of flats. This was where he loved to be, in the thick of the action. Not that there actually was any action as yet. But he'd be ready when it came his way. He likened himself to one of the n...
The warriors monitor the Furies on their large television screen. Greg Standish a forty year old male with a college degree spent most of his time in and out of prison for robbery to support his drug habit. He had a wife and family at home, but the weekends he spent with his friends, he met while serving time in prison. Frank Harding a thirty four year ol...