CHAPTER 1 The clothing trade was in my blood. Living in Leeds it was almost synonymous with being Jewish. Our people escaping pogroms had not been able to carry much, but with needles and skill they started to set up businesses in overcrowded slums in the poorest part of the city. As things got better, the Jewish community steadily moved north into better...
Lyriena paced back and forth anxiously. She was embroiled in the midst of a storm of uncertain emotions. On the one hand, she wanted Henry's contact to find her so she could continue with her plan to be away from this place. On the other, she was tempted by Trogar's offer; both to satisfy her own sexual curiosity but also to wreak revenge on that sow, Soleil...
Note: English is not my first language so I hope there aren't many stylistic or grammatical errors. Meeting his "aunt" went great. It was already a week since Anri first arrived in The House of the Scarlet Rose, but it only felt like yesterday since their first encounter. Jarill lead him to her mother's office, then quickly excused herself and retreated, l...
FOREST: PART I SweetNothingsAndBeyond ****** Author's Note: The story is based in Bhubaneswar, Odisha, in the East-Coast of India. So the developments are purely as per the locational values and cultural melee of this particular area. Please gel with the socio-cultural perspective of the place and enjoy the story... ****** Forest: Bhitarkanika Nation...
John has a new title he hopes to never hear again: John the Long. Chapter 4 brings a new day in his new life with challenges and... conquests. John woke to the fresh scent of ocean wind and wildflowers. He blinked his eyes open as yesterday's events came back to him. He knew who, and where, he was. His belly was empty, but the magic was there, thrumming wit...
"How did you meet your spouse?" That's the question every couple has been forced to answer since the beginning of time. My name is Amina "Mina" Kanu-Dumont, I'm a young woman of Gambian descent living in the City of Ottawa, Ontario. I was raised Muslim, but consider myself a secularist these days. I am the happy wife of Marcus Dumont, the devoted mother to p...
I was 23 when I landed my dream job at ADM Advertising and Marketing, a national firm. I had graduated from college over a year previously so I was getting pretty desperate to find a job to further my chosen career, one that didn't involve waiting tables or mowing lawns. My first boss, the guy who hired me, was on his way out the door, just months from retir...
I guess a lot of people had said right from the outset that our marriage wouldn’t work – but we proved them wrong. The first time I caught sight of Denise was in a rather peculiar situation. One of the chaps with whom I was working at the time was getting married and he arranged his own stag night! He was a very lonely man and desperately wanted to be liked...
Author's Note: A short story of dealing with the aftermath of a cheating wife and a broken marriage. Story is part of the Brownwood series, cross-over characters may appear. Also, there's no graphic sex in this story so if that's what you're looking for, you outta skip this one. My thanks to findingmyvoice for her editing. Any errors you find are mine beca...
Chapter Six: Changes Infected: 2,111,985,298 Healthy: 5,074,253,393 Day: 15 Kiwi opened his eyes to the sound of the President of the United States. "We must remain calm in the face of this sweeping set of changes. But we cannot remain calm if we cannot face the truth: The truth is that this virus is real, and that it has been introduced to the oce...