Chapter 11: Justice The crowned female figure of Justice, depicting Astraea, Goddess of Justice in Greek mythology, is seated between the pillars of positive and negative forces. .. . She does not permit temptation or envy to misguide her. -Tarot Classic, Stuart R. Kaplan Harmony. Restoration of balance. Fairness. Maintaining a proper balance. Order resto...
After a few miss-keys and a computer crash, I finally got the spreadsheet for the Anderson account finished and could proudly say I was midway through the pile of crap on my desk. I slumped in my chair. It was late and I was the only one in the cube farm on the third floor. At this rate, I'd never get finished with all of it today, but I had told my supervis...
After the drive down to Cornwall, with an overnight stop just south of Manchester, and the frantic lovemaking on arrival at his cottage, Catriona and Rory were tired. He picks her up in his arms and carries her upstairs to the bedroom, helps her out of her clothes, resisting the temptation that this offers and lays her on the bed pulling the duvet over her....
It's a hot evening, the temperature demands that a couple of double scoop ice cream cones is in order. We walk back, hoping that the mixture of the cold treat and the single oscillating fan will cool our bodies. You get a twinkle in your eye and shyly suggest that the fan would have a better chance of reaching its goal of cooling us down if it didn't have to...
Early Easter Sunday morning, my door bell woke me up. I sat up in bed, naked as always, hair a mess, and grabbed my robe and ran down stairs yelling "I'm coming! Just a second already." When I opened the door, the sun nearly blinded be. I couldn't believe my eyes. But there he was, in a bunny costume, hood with floppy ears and all. And he had a big basket of...
The Warlock's consciousness snapped back to the here and now. His vision quest was complete and he now knew the identity of the fourth Halliwell sister. She was Paige Matthews, and she volunteered at the social services' office. She was a descendant of a whitelighter as well as a witch, but the Warlock did not fear her. She was as yet oblivious of her herit...
Wisps of smoke, rising from the burning wick of a candle, fill her nose with the smell of lavender and vanilla, as they swirl around her in the inky blackness of her room. The flame glittering on every part of her skin that wasn't covered by the skimpy black silk of her lace nightgown as it hung from her shoulders: she wore nothing beneath. Her soft brown ha...
"How's it going so far?" Doctor Williams asked. "So far, it going well," Jennifer answered. "The simulation is stable and her vital signs are normal." "Good, I just hope that nothing goes wrong this time." **** "Hello there" said a masculine voice behind Lisa. She jumped and spun around to see a very attractive man holding a towel. "I'm very sorry," he s...
I was in my third year of college working towards my degree in education when I started my student teaching at a local high school. I was only 21 years old, not much older than the students I was teaching as they were seniors, so we got along pretty well. The guys would joke around and cut up with me, and the girls all flirted with me but I didn't pay it muc...
*note... this is a work of adult fiction. Any resemblance to characters living or dead is purely accidental & is a product of the author's vivid imagination* Kayla had had a hard day. Her boss was giving her a hard time; her ex-boyfriend was doing the same. All she wanted to do was to have people just leave her alone. After she got home, all she wanted to d...