Run Over Fargo, North Dakota. Mid-January—5pm. "Hey Dad?" "Uh huh?" "I'm gonna go over to the clinic for a couple of hours." "Isn't it closing soon?" "Yeah, but I can get more work done after Doctor Collins leaves, so this makes sense." "You gonna be back for dinner?" "Probably not." "Okay. I'll just throw something in the microwave and you can fend...
Robert leapt up the polished hardwood steps of the New Farm art deco apartment building, an overnight bag slung over his shoulder and a bunch of flowers in his hand. It was Friday night and after a two hour journey he was just metres away from his destination. He'd first made the trip to Audrey's home twelve months ago. He'd gotten hopelessly lost driving...
Chapter 1 "Horrible place." I muttered, though it was really half a yell to be sure I'd be heard. I fanned myself, the sun making it too warm on the mountainside in all my decorative, winter finery. Next week we would switch to my Spring wardrobe, at which point I would be far too cold in the mornings and evenings until we moved into Summer. "Well then go...
I'm killing two metaphoric birds with a single figurative stone here. A bunch of you wanted me to take-up the righteous rod of retribution and smite the two sinners from A Sea Change; while a few readers also wanted me to push my "Totally Unromantic Love Story" series into the next generation. One of you had a really bright idea about how to do that. So, thi...
Staring at the photos on the side table Jessica saw a fairly recent one of a marine, a very hot marine. Her eyes widened even as her stomach dipped. Rolling her eyes at the response her body gave she turned yelling toward her friend who happened to be in the kitchen. "Hey Marty, whose the 'walking wet dream' in dress blues?" Marty burst out laughing even as...
Chapter 11 - Soul Sisters of Sappho We had been in Barney for two months, I had planted the oats as soon as the pipes were laid for the subsoil watering system and the oats were starting to grow pretty well in the new field. The oats planted in the terraced fields as a safety measure were up and growing much better, probably due to the manure that was spre...
Author's note This is a direct sequel to A Chemical Moment, and the narrator and main character is the same. Anne, who appears in this story, also features in A Chemical Moment and (later in time) in The Broken Mirror. There are significant lesbian elements to the story, so if that doesn't interest you, move along. It's quite long, and the sex is not parti...
Boston with its many old neighborhoods is as varied as its people. In the older seedier parts of town many people live and carry on in a world much different from the clinically clean and proper suburbs. On some streets there are rows and rows of the monotonous dark brick two, three, five or six story apartment buildings many exactly like the one next to it...
* Thank you, as always, to Alwaysready64 for editing this chapter! * Chapter 11 Ealasaid sat in a dimly lit bar. She traced one, perfectly manicured, nail around the rim of her glass and she kept her gaze forward even as she felt the hate-filled stares burning into her skin. In front of her was a group of more than fifty Vampyres. They were all knelt on th...
Chapter 20 Paying the Devil His Due with Interest by T. J. Skywind © To the curious, when I write I listen to several artists. Among them Jean Michel Jarre, Medwyn Goodall, Johnny Clegg, David & Diane Arkenstone, Lindsey Stirling, and a recent addition are Two Steps From Hell. Sometimes I rock out on classics from the 1920s to current hits, but I p...