People at the airport thought I'd been drinking. I hadn't, but I can't blame them for thinking that. I had stubble on my face, I staggered and I'd been working six days round the clock to straighten out some problems on an offshore oil-drilling rig created by a Malaysian Toolpusher who didn't know shit, but had an uncle in politics on the Company Board. I f...
Karen was sitting down on the street side of the cafe. She smiled as she sipped some espresso as she watched the men ogling her. She knew her long muscular legs were enticing to admire. She watched as a couple walked by. The wife hit her husband in the arm and mumbled angrily at him as she caught him admiring too long. She thought to herself..."I could have...
It was a quiet day at "Street Cars" The part owner Lloyd Mullaney was sat in the battered chair, reading a magazine, while Claire Peacock, the telephone dispatcher, tried to tidy up the desk, that Eileen Grimshaw always left a mess. "Boring, isn't it?" said Claire, "where is everybody?" Lloyd looking up from his magazine said "there's an England game on TV...
Right before school started back up and we both had to go back to teaching, Claire and I decided to drive east across the state to one of the last drive-in movie theaters around. We'd talked about going for years, but we had just never gotten around to it. In high school I worked at our local movie theater, and although I never had to work at the drive-in, I...
Chapter Five; A Roadtrip to Remember We were in a Ramada Inn in Breezewood, Pennsylvania. Not exactly my idea of a destination vacation spot, but, at the moment, neither Beth nor Stewart or myself had anything to complain about. I could hear Beth voicing her excitement through the open door between our adjoining rooms, sounding very much like she was close...
bookTWO : STARshine * * * silence swimming in a pool of dreams / beneath its depths the forgotten streams / above the city of the evening star / behind its walls, the grand bazaar / as she walks through its endless ways / cursing those who mistrust her ways / please my friend no matter what she sees / tell my lover come back to me * * * * * * The p...
They ordered their dessert after they were done eating and Mark ordered a scotch to go with it. "I'll take a glass of Chardonay" requested Claire. The waitress began to walk away when Mark intervened. "Actually she is fine with water, thank you though." "What the he** was that?" barked Claire. "Babies don't drink alcohol, and toddlers get disciplined fo...
Claire and Kelly cuddled on the bed. They kissed each other gently and rubbed each other's beautiful, young bodies. Suddenly, in the hall, Dan was conjured out of thin air by the author. Don't ask why he was there or how he got there. He was conjured, dammit. Ok, ok. Dan lived in a parallel dimension. The dimensions accidentally merged and he found himself...
I had never been so cold in all my life. My shoes hurt, and were a little wet from slogging through those spots in the road where I couldn't avoid a puddle of slushy melting snow. I had a decent overcoat, and was relatively dry from the knees up, where it covered. Still, I was cold. I hadn't dressed to walk. I had dressed to impress. I had dressed to dance....
Claire scrutinised herself in the mirror. Her dark hair was coiled in a messy bun, her makeup applied to appear as though it wasn't there at all. She sighed gently as she examined her stocking-clad legs, lace babydoll and satin dressing gown, and then her own curves underneath. A small smirk manifested on her full lips, a dark mischief blooming in storm grey...