"Barbara, what's going on?" "God I hate doing this," she said, obviously in some mental anguish. "I'm about to lose a very good friend, but I can't help it," she said still not being able to look me in the eye. "What, Barbara; who is the friend you're going to lose, Cora?" Just then the bar maid came over to take our order; it was an untimely interruption...
Edited by Scalia Authors note: (Many of you told me to get an editor and yes, I needed one. I found one and am quite pleased with the results. Any further mistakes are mine. If you don't like revenge stories you won't like this. Nevertheless, read it anyway and comment. Vote if you feel like it but I value comments more than votes. I hope you enjoy this dar...
CH 3 - AUNT SOPHIA A week later and Xander and Lexi had everyone fooled. They held hands, cuddled on the sofa while watching TV and stayed in the same room at night. That was absolute torture for Lexi every night in the same bed and waking up tangled in each other but nothing else. Tonight the family had decided they were going to celebrate. No one was on...
Any pop psychologist knows of the catch phrase, "The broken wing complex." It refers mostly to a man who will go out and shoot quail, pheasant, ducks and geese, never giving a thought to the pain and death of the bird's experience. But if the same man comes across a bird with a broken wing, out of pity and compassion, he may very well nurse the bird back to...
Cora opened her eyes and squinted at the daylight. She had fallen asleep in the passenger seat of her mother's SUV. They had been driving for nearly three hours and were reaching their destination. Cora woke up just in time to drink in the beautiful countryside of Trimbridge, a small town in the middle of nowhere Pennsylvania. She had grown up running thro...
**** I wanted to do this story the way that it appears because the reveal of things and the characters looked better to me than just one long haul by the crawling calendar since there are years to this tale. There will be less of that toward the end because all of the relevant pieces will lie in the reader's mind like hopefully an almost-completed jigsaw pu...
During the summer months Tom and I liked to go to Capri on weekends. If we weren't on leave or visiting other places like Pompeii, the Amalfi Coast and other point of interest, we would go to Capri. It was incredibly reasonable as long as you knew where to stay and where to eat. As soon as we had liberty call on Friday afternoon, we took a city bus downtown...
Part 11: Payton – English; Village of the Warrior ~*~*~*~*~*~*~ If there was ever a time that Dominic wanted to take back everything he had said, now was definitely the time. He struggled to open his eyes, disillusioned with the fog of confusion in his brain. What had happened? One moment he had been screaming at Will, and then the next he was lying face...
Cora worked seven days a week, eight hours a day, every day but Sunday. Sunday was an easy day because all she had to do was feed the animals. Everyday was long but with the help she had she didn't mind. She would wake up at six every morning, be at the farm by seven, work her butt off until about three or four in the afternoon, and then she was granted he...
Dr. Raul Maggio came home from work to an empty house. This wasn't an uncommon occurrence as he worked odd hours being a doctor, or at least, that's what he told his wife, Phoebe. The truth was many of his 'odd hours' were actually him having an affair with Cora Larrabee, the wife of one of his colleagues. The pair had been seeing each other for over two yea...