It was a horrible day for a grave side service. The canopy that had been set up was really adequate only for immediate family. Detective Brady huddled with his wife under their umbrella in a futile effort to avoid the worst of the relentless rain. The rain was almost forgotten as they listened to the chaplain's struggle to eulogize a rookie cop who had commi...
Chapter 8: Andrew gets a twofer Dee Dee's Story I'm not sure what I was feeling as we hurried out of the hotel restaurant. I just panicked when I realized what a fool I had been. I was rushing to a pharmacy to buy an early pregnancy test, but I realized the test probably wouldn't be able to detect a pregnancy after 3 days. I must be out of my mind. I turn...
Author's Note: This story is fiction, but it is based loosely on real events in my life. The names have been changed, of course. This story is the way I've chosen to remember those events, even though they didn't really happen in exactly this way. * * * * * According to the signs we passed on I-95, we were passing New Haven. We still had at least two more...
I am hoping to finish this piece at 5000 words. I am close but I want to get some feedback on how to make this better. Please comment with what works for you, what didn't, what I can improve, and what should be destroyed. I eagerly await feedback/comments/contructive criticism. -BenevolentDCC ***** Once I had been a healer beyond repute, sought far and w...
You push the elevator call button and shake your head to try and clear it. On the way down you button the remaining shirt buttons and straighten your appearance somewhat. When you reach the fourth floor, you peek out as the doors open, to see if there's anyone in the hall who will see your mostly pants-less state. Coast is clear. You hurry to your room, but...
Queen Astrida, Daemon and Sunny discovered a few hours later, was a gold-wrapped enigma. "You are most welcome, Your Majesty, here in the interstellar kingdom of Astorr," Daemon stated to the veiled woman flanked by her courtiers, servants and bodyguards. He had come down off of his throne and his dais, save for a single step; she was technically his equal...
As I look out over the bleak winter city streets, I recall the warmth of a summer day out in rural Alberta where I grew up. I'm sitting in a coffee shop and stir the sugar and cream in my mug and my mind drifts away to a better time and place, back home. The day my mind returns to is the topic of this story. The farm I lived on was quite isolated and had st...
Chapter One… Kelly’s mother had never been married, shed obviously caught as a youngster, a sixteen year old to be precise. After that the toll of bringing up a baby by herself had excluded the opportunity or the desire for boyfriends and lovers. Kelly thought that her mother probably had not even taken a lover after her conception but she didn’t really kno...
For women's emotional mind never say sex, always replace the spoken word sex with love making. Start by thinking of women as energy-mind-emotion and every thought a person thinks creates in the world. Slow down your thoughts until you are aware of all the thinking being done below the waking alpha wavelength. There are bio-feedback machines which are inexpen...
This essay is part of a series in which I compare the ideas of philosophers on the subject of Aesthetics. I'm attempting to extrapolate from their superior knowledge and writings what I believe are important points on the creation of and critique of Art, Beauty and the Soul. I hope there are some artists/scholars out there who can appreciate my works- Beca...