It's a romance; it just took me a while to get it there. My list of thanks are always to those friends of mine who share so much time and their expertise with me. To Hal1 who started the ball rolling and the rest of you who helped get it to print. Thank you. ******* With the sun at its highest, the back of my hand wiped away the sweat from my forehead. I...
Chapter 1 The Beginning It started one afternoon after I had gotten off work with my Dad, I was tinkering with my car in the driveway when I hear my name being called. I looked down the street and a friend of mines girlfriend was walking to me, I said hey Sherry what's up? she asked what I was doing tonight? I said going to cruse the beach for a couple...
This story makes some references to "Joanie of Zurich," and will make more sense if you can read that story and also "Joanie joins the workforce" before this one. I accidentally misclassified Joanie of Zurich in BDSM, so you could look for it there if you want. I hope you enjoy this one. *************************** It was day 92 of my boring job. Actually...
Jolene and Rob Chambers had been married 18 years and they had the good life. Rob had parlayed some internet applications he had developed into a life-long stream of very generous royalty checks, while Jolene had started, then sold for drop-dead money, a still-successful home service business. They would never have to work again and their 18-year-old twins,...
I would like to thank everyone for their patience in waiting for this chapter while I was recuperating. Your kind emails and words of encouragement really made me smile when I needed it the most. To my editor, hcsd1710 there are no words to thank you for your help and encouragement not only for the story but being there for me when I needed someone to talk t...
This story plays fast and loose with Ancient History and Linguistics; be warned. Those who declare war are willing to kill as many as it takes to reach their goal. Editing magic performed by KJ24 and Shyqash, plus contributions by the regular gang of brigands and neer-do-wells. Thanks to NM for his help with Magyar terminology and titles. There is a bit...
"Faraday him." Thale's eyes snapped open moments before the cage came down. Three dark figures around the bed were crouched low and held subtech weapons – knives, clubs, snub nosed stubguns, their boots. The one holding the cage slammed it down, the fibermesh mask snapping tight around his nose, his ears, his mouth. Thale felt the pressure of it against hi...
[An Account from the PRISM Chronicles] Chapter 1 An Unexpected Opportunity Huffing and puffing wouldn't make it go away any more than believing that Howard Hughes' enormous wooden aircraft, the Spruce Goose, was a practical way to build a usable plane made it so. His fiancée, Parker Scott, had gone to considerable trouble to get him an interview with a...
The Passenger Chapter 6 Making a living flying through space, all by yourself, usually gives you a good background in crisis management. At any moment you may wake up to the sound of a failing energy converter, which could drop you out of hyperspace in the middle of nowhere at any moment, or to an impending problem with the life support system, which coul...
I have made this trip so many times I probably could have set my truck on autopilot and still made it up here in one piece, but this trip was different. It normally only took me a couple of hours. This time, however, I had to stop, fill my truck up with gas, and shop for a few other items on my way. It wasn't a planned trip. We already had three snowfalls...