At this time of day, her brown eyes are already fixed at the clock by the cashier's corner. For Damaris, heading home has always been the best part of her work week and it was nearly 4pm before she gets off work. Being a sales attendee at a book shop is a good job, spending time with books has always been her idea of spending a day and even quite enjoyable...
I was working on the delivery truck delivering the final packages before Christmas. As I was the youngest driver in the firm, and unmarried, I had the longest route. By the time I got back to the Distribution Center everyone else would be gone. At least the heater in this truck worked. It’s cold outside on Christmas Eve. I was out near Hopkins Corner with a...
Note: This is a very short tale. * I was sitting in the middle seat on the plane coming home. Because of weather delays, we didn't board until almost midnight, but it was only a short flight. A pretty woman sat next to me by the window. She was much younger than me. She didn't look at me when I sat down after her, and I got the impression immediately that...
The wind blows over the hillside and the snowflakes are drifting relentlessly across the valley. The sky is dark and the clouds pregnant with anticipation of the next blizzard. It's cold and I wrap myself deeper into the coat I am wearing, feeling the soft fur sweep across my cheeks. My boots are wet through but I can see the cabin up ahead. There it will be...
Josh sat at the glass table on the patio. He had designed and built the chair he sat on to accommodate their morning ritual. Suzy climbed down the stairs to she called their "fun room." In the center, directly below the table and the trapdoor above, sat a Sybian. Josh had modified this one to meet their special needs. Suzy selected a probe, lubed it and ins...
Rainy Night It was dark in the cabin that her and her husband had rented for the summer, he had gone out to the local store to get what was need to cook dinner. Some candles were lit in the living room and on the mantle of the fire place. She had started to get the kitchen ready so when he got back she could start dinner. She heard that they might be a st...
(Author's Note: This is the same story as my previous one, apart from the few changes. I will take down the old one as soon as I have used all its resources on this one. The Significant change to this story is I have used the game mode option. I hope this will provide a more immersive experience. And once again sorry for any grammatical errors, and once agai...
I don't know how long the steady, hypnotic churn of the wheels on the track had registered before I was willing to accept it. How the hell did I get on a train? At least I was in a sleeper car. There was a deep long rumble followed by a loud clap of thunder; a flash of the lightning followed quickly. The sounds of the storm were as hypnotic as the lull of th...
Miria paced the floor nervously, thinking to herself that he had been gone longer than expected. Bastion was usually only gone a day and a half to check the lands and head to town for supplies. Today marked the third day he had been gone, and she was starting to worry. "Where is he," she thought. Her mind began to race with questions of where could he be, w...
Finding Cherie dead on the deck shocked me to my core. I was alone, the real alone, no partner in my life. I raced to call 9-1-1 then found a blanket to cover her. I searched for some kind of note, a message of good-bye, anything that I could cling to, nothing. The next several hours involved police statements, recounting our day, evening, our argument abou...