CHAPTER ONE The door closed behind her father, leaving Dana alone in her new room. She heard him herding her mother and siblings away. They had a long drive ahead of them and it was late afternoon now. She turned away from the door, feeling her eyes burn, determined not to cry. She was eighteen for god's sake. Legally an adult. She could deal with being lef...
When Vera abruptly left the kitchen after her embarrassment, Natasha and Lajos were taken aback but each had different reactions. Natasha simply considered Vera's escape at face value in arriving at the obvious conclusion. Her mother, thinking Lajos did not know Russian, had uttered a saucy observation. When discovering that Lajos had understood her, it wa...
Daniel raced along the beach, the surf crashing about his boots, sucking them and him deeper into the soft sand. Neither the wet, squishing inside them or the ninety pound pack on his back registered. He was a man driven. Driven by demons that had haunted his dreams for over two weeks. Dreams of soft, welcoming flesh that turned suddenly still and icy cold....
UM-3/ Avalon Hills of snow were melting as furious Gale slowly abated and the continent passed into Sede. Kray and four others in the squad he’d drawn from the company; Harley, Amhatiens, Elroy, and Booster hunkered down behind a low hill running alongside a beige, fibrocrete river that meandered across the bombarded, cratered landscape- the vehicle access...
The story so far: exhibitionist Becky shocked not just her guests but best friend Lisa when she attended her own birthday party with nothing on – but bigger shocks were in store after she and Lisa fought, and later that evening Lisa secretly witnessed Becky having a threesome with a couple of the girls' friends, forcing her to confront her own attraction to...
Happy Birthday to Me - Chapter Four This is a continuation of Chapter Three of "Happy Birthday to Me" and picks up from where Chapter Three left off, following on from Kam taking Isabelle into their bedroom... If you haven't already read Chapter Three, I'd recommend going back and reading that first, or better yet, start with Chapter One. Hope you enjoy......
Chapter One. Suffering the consequences. We entered her two-level apartment and she took me through to a lounge. It looked expensively furnished with a thick, creamy white carpet and a plush velvet three piece suite. The coffee table looked like real wood. The only thing that looked incongruous was the old chrome dining chair. I followed her across, enjoyi...
CHAPTER SEVEN: THE COPS ARE INFORMED Despite the early hour, Holly had already showered. The shrill ring of her cell phone disturbed her thoughts. It was that phone. She allowed the phone to ring out and listened to the message. "You know who this is?" asked the voice when she returned the call. "Yes." "It's Big Eddie." She sighed. "I said I know who it...
3. Spring Throughout January and February, Harold continued to write to Jenny at least once a week. Whenever a letter arrived, she felt a little pang of longing for her old life, and a little more guilt at having to be so deliberately vague about her circumstances. Every time she read of his conventional, decent life back in York, she felt torn, knowing tha...
Addison nervously paces back and forth behind the couch as Alex and Mr. Voss sit watching a news report out of Senegal. "Intense fighting continues in the region as the Senegalese military looks to reassert its control over the outlying provinces that General Ballo took over during his attempted coup. The U. S. state department is urging any American citiz...