Elliot Goldman arrived home an hour before his wife of six years, Hanna. He grabbed a beer from the fridge and sat down to rest. He noticed one of his wife's women's magazines on the coffee table. The lead article on the cover was "10 Ways to Know Your Spouse is Cheating." Normally, Elliot would have ignored or even laughed at such a title. The last month or...
"Caroline. Caroline." She called to her. Called to Carol in a voice that shook the air like an echo in a tunnel of brass. It rumbled from the swirling clouds above. It bubbled wetly from the muck below. And it whispered gently all around her, its every elocution a drop of honey in her ear. "Caroline. Caroline!" It made her muscles go tense, sent shiver...
There was a slight chill in the air, but Rouran paid it no mind. She did not begrudge Yvain's decision to celebrate with his friends. She'd whiled away a wonderful few hours with him, and it had felt, if not pleasant, perhaps natural...modern...to abandon each other to their own plans. She made her way up the Guild Hill, arriving at the vai Ullan estate. T...
Call me Matthew. I speak French with a British accent for some reason, so the locals over here are always asking me what part of England I'm from. When they find out I'm really from Colorado, that always goes over well. I guess the Ugly American stereotype has faded in favor of the British who are buying up all the real estate in France for retirement homes,...
This story contains themes of forest fire and may be triggering for some readers. Chapter 1 The French Polish was chipped and the white nails had lost their luster. She stirs the ice cubes with a paper straw, stabbing at the orange slice floating on the ruby surface. She raises the glass, examining its contents. The glow from the sky outside, played with t...
Part IV Chapter 35 ____________________________________ After consultations with the colonel and, presumably, whoever he was speaking to in Washington, D.C., the team's first target was agreed upon...and the "green light" given to 'set up' the target. Actually taking out the target would be authorized only after the target was acquired. The first target,...
It was a simple, straightforward question, and it deserved a simple, straightforward answer, John Montero thought to himself. "How long have you been fucking Aaron?" he practically whispered to his wife of 22 years, Traci, as she entered the darkened kitchen before he surprised her by flipping on the lights. Traci spluttered a non-reply as halfway through...
My name is Joe, at least for the purposes of this story. Events depicted did not actually happen and characters are entirely fictional. * I was living in California and working as an inventory clerk for a tuner car shop. I'd studied computers in college and developed a knack with them, and this being the technology-driven age that it is, the inventory sys...
While I did have plans to go beyond the initial chapter of Stuck this has grown into something more than I was expecting, after Somebody That I Used To Know I wanted to stay in the mindset of those characters but obviously avoid a lot of the hardships. Ironically this final chapter of Stuck is going to feature a lot of them with the aftermath of the car cras...
Greetings, I wish everyone a scary Hallowe'en, All Saints' Day, El Día de los Muertos, All Hallows Eve, Dušičky, etc. Have you ever eaten in a restaurant and the food on the next table looked so good you wish you'd ordered that instead? That's how I feel when reading one of manyeyedhydra's vampire tales: man, I'd sure like to try some succubus-in-a-Euro-tr...