Anyone who has read the essential 1926 "History of Witchcraft and Demonology," by the brilliant and tormented Augustus Montague Summers, educated at Trinity College, Oxford (a "fourth," in theology-but Oxford!), ordained a deacon and curate in 1908, but never after promoted because of accusations of Satanism-and improprieties with young boys (for which he wa...
I get some complaints on the length of time between chapters, but this isn't my day job. Yet. It's either I write stories like these on a monthly release cycle between the detective stories I usually release quarterly, or I go dark for three to four months at a time. These stories allow me to test concepts and try new things outside of my normal format. You...
Act Three: There's Always Room Chapter Four: Ask Me to Enter "…God damn, woman," Yves was crying out, "how do you always do that?" The morning sun threw strange shadows in the doorway. Ursula shrugged, opened the door wide and stepped aside. "Come into my parlor." "Very funny," Yves grumbled, crossing the threshold and barging into Ursula's living room. "...
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*Disclaimer: Any persons engaging in any sexual activity are at least eighteen years of age. * It seemed to be an unspoken agreement; she would continue to live upstairs, right above him, even though she spent nearly every moment he was home in his apartment. She would lug Christopher Michael downstairs in the bassinet he'd bought for the baby the moment s...
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SO FAR: Divorcee Merrick Jamieson (35) visiting New York comes into contact with the moll of the mysterious Spiro whom the spirited Kirsty Fallon has reason to fear if she so much looks at another man. But after a brief association with Merrick Kirsty (25) finds she has become attracted and follows him to his homeland and begins working with the photo-journa...
Thanks to Bad Hobbit for his very useful suggestions and corrections. I didn't follow all of them, so responsibility for the story is mine, as is copyright. This story can't be appreciated without reading the first two parts of this series. ***** Living with my wife is an adventure, a wild ride. A scary ride at times. She's a cannonball, literally. The...
Chapter 1: "Set in Stone" Alli sat on a soft padded stool in front of her makeup mirror and sighed. She'd not slept very much for a couple of nights, now, and the decision she had finally made after years of denial had been, to her great surprise, one of the easiest things she'd ever done. Her stomach fluttered as she pursed her lips and frowned slightly in...
Communal solitude sometimes sits in the eaves before taking flight. Beads of sweat burst onto my brow as I muscled my way through another set of ten chin ups on the cross bar out in the barn. The aroma of the recent hay season was in my nostrils as the chaff stuck to the sweat on my back and belly and when I dropped to the floor a pair of rose breasted barn...