"You must be the Prince!" Tony twisted around. This time, he'd landed in the yard of a palatial manor, the kind of thing he'd expect in the Hamptons, with two sisters coming out to greet him. They... were not his speed. It wasn't the weight—he didn't mind a little extra cushion for the pushing—but both of them had hair so bad, a boy haircut would actually...
note 1: There's no sex in this story. Honest. Consider yourself warned. note 2: With my deepest respect and apologies to the late, P. G. Wodehouse. -- "If only the good die young, that crew will live to a hundred." This unflattering rumination came from one, William Jackson Sinclair IV, aka, Willie. The target of his jaundiced assessment was the Iota Fra...
LXVIII Ivory Towers Sally 2091 Sally had a great deal to be satisfied about even though she wasn't the kind of person to take good fortune for granted. She was blessed with relatively affluent parents who loved and cherished her. She was similarly blessed with the intellectual ability to secure a place on a postgraduate course at Oxford, one of England's...
2066Faith and CharityLindiweXVI It was the first time since Lindiwe was a child that she could remember ever being happy. Was this what she'd been looking for since she'd left Lesotho? In fact, so low had her measurement of luxury fallen that just to sleep on a mattress she didn't have to share and to survive without needing to sell her body were enough now...
Anne stood to one side as her husband, Councillor Brian Timpson, laid his wreath at the town's war memorial and a bugler played the Last Post. The Mayor of Attleton Market, Councillor Derek Tate, had gone to visit a small town in France on a fact finding mission as' twinning' the two towns had recently been discussed, and wasn't therefore able to perform the...
I take my time getting ready for the event this evening. I know you will be there and I want to look good for you. I want you to see me. I want you to want me. From the other side of the room. After a leisurely soak in the tub, scrubbing, shaving, smoothing, I wrap the towel around me and look for something to wear. Perhaps the red satin dress: low-cut, ski...
A collection of arcane and under-appreciated words. Definitions are included, along with clarification. Also, the word is used in a sentence, where appropriate, to indicate its proper usage in everyday language. NOTE: An asterisk (*) following a definition indicates that the word and definition are factual and may be found in any good 40 pound dictionary....
"Twenty below with the wind-chill," announced the weather reporter on the local PBS radio station. "A perfect day for a funeral in Chicago," Ed thought wryly, as he gazed from the darkness of the window in the second story brownstone. His cold blue eyes noting how the snow fell upon the dimly lit brick street, as the ancient barren Oaks stood watch. Compac...
This concludes the Tale of Elena, Peter and Uncle Charles. Sorry for the delay in bringing you the end. - wifetheif ***** Elena could scarcely believe that her final month of slavery had arrived. She had been checking off each day on the calender on her wall. Peter had been a dream for the longest time. To Elena's utter amazement, about three months befo...
Soon he returned. She sat nervously waiting for him to do something. He moved to a table next to the frame, and with his back to her, he placed some things on it. She couldn't see what he had or what he was doing. He turned to her and motioned her to come where stood in the middle of the frame. She walked to him and stood, resigned to her immediate fate. H...