Chapter 01 My name is Bart Jamison and I'm an Accountant for a family-owned construction company. My wife Sandy and I met back in college but didn't become serious until after we were both out of school and were hired by the same company. We married and I went to work for the Gilbert family construction company, owned by Raymond Gilbert, his wife, and daugh...
Chapter 3: Trust, Fear, Love "You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing which you think you cannot do." Eleanor Roosevelt Derek cursed silently. This was not good. He glanced at the metallic walkway with the exposed rail. He needed to get to the other side, but to...
The class was English Composition and I'd been given three papers to write. I'd been given the subject for the first two and they were already written and turned in. The third paper was to be on whatever I could think of. The paper was actually one that should have been done in freshman year, but because of all the credit hours I'd accrued in the Army I was...
Hello!! The fifth chapter is finally done!!! My super-editor HMEdits has helped me a lot!!! I want to thank him and also my readers, you've been the most supportive. Thank you for liking my work!! Enjoy!!! Marie * * * I didn't know what was going on with me. This was my fairy tale and the storm I expected was here. It had wrecked everything... maybe tha...
Chapter 19 A Hero's Homecoming * Special thanks to Desert Pirate for his kind assistance. * After picking up the bus, I drove over to the Commissary and stocked up on some groceries. After we got every thing stored away, I headed off. The next stop being Olympia, I headed for the south gate and got on I-5. It took us about forty five minutes to get to...
I would like to thank dth7018 for doing a great job of editing this story and for his input on helping making it a better story thank you lots Don. Hello; my name is Helen Croft. This is my story: I had never even thought about ever writing a story about my life and the roads it has taken over the years. I never thought anyone would ever care to read a...
It had been just over a year since they had first met online and now their 3rd weekend together was coming to a close. Each weekend had been more intense than the previous, both of them knowing that part of its intensity was the limited nature of their ability to be together. They had just finished taking a particularly invigorating shower together and were...
5. Evolution Keri was far from pleased with the way that events have gone with Sam and she made her displeasure evident to Victoria on their 'walk in the park'. While she had reluctantly acquiesced to the outcome she had not done so because of any prearranged 'deal' with Victoria, but more because she couldn't bring herself to cause Sam any further pain or...
After a very long day of classes and college midterms, Ava was completely done with everything. She was looking forward to heading home and seeing her boyfriend. A heavy backpack weighed on her shoulders as all four foot and eleven inches of her carried on through the light drizzle of rain coming on the way home. The university was only about a fifteen-minut...
I guess it was inevitable that it would come to this. She and I had been moving apart for some time. After ten years of marriage things were getting old between us. She wasn't the same person I had married and I guess the same could be said for me. It wasn't that I had fallen out of love with her it's just that we had changed in different ways. Events that w...