There is no graphic sex in this story. * CHAPTER ONE The West Country was as beautiful as ever. I enjoyed my job, but the times when I came down to Devon and travelled the western counties were special. Seeing the hills and valleys, with hedgerows delineating the irregular shapes of meadows and pastures, flecked with the white of sheep or the dun red of c...
Please read the first three chapters if you haven't, this finale will make more sense if you do. For those who have stayed with my story, thank you. I hope you will enjoy reading this last story in the Trilogy as much as I've enjoyed writing it. As usual, constructive comments and emails are more than welcome and appreciated. *********************** We'...
I see him through the mists of dawn. The apparition which had scare had scared me witless, is actually a ghastly man on a wheelchair. His face is bandaged. His eyes I cannot see. The white gauze covering his skin just below his forehead which slashed to parts of his cheeks remind me of a scene from a war movie I had watched during my university days. "Is s...
"One thing you can say about this job; it is never the same two days in a row." "Not again. Another lost snowshoer? Why can't they stay on the trail?" "Great day for it huh? We're going to have a blizzard soon." Those were some of the grumblings coming from the eight rangers suiting up to go on a rescue. This was the third time in the last week that someo...
The inspiration for this story was BigGuy33's most excellent "A Surprise Visitor". Please read it if you haven't already. The initial plot is almost the same, as everyone will recognize. This is totally a work of fiction with fictional characters - but like a lot of authors I draw from a lot of personal experiences and people I've known throughout my life. A...
'A New Beginning' is another of my literary experiments, this time a parallel story in two parts. Part 1 was the story as told by Patrick. The second part is the same story told by Rachel, ending with a convergence of both parts that lead into the conclusion. The conversations between Rachel and Patrick remain the same, highlighting what was going on in the...
Val got home from work that night and looked completely done in. I found out her fatigue had a far deeper cause than that. "Well, I had a feeling it would happen," she said as she flopped down next to me on the sofa, putting her feet up on the coffee table after kicking off her shoes. My brain was someplace else. "What?" "Claire and Dave have split up. Sh...
CHAPTER 1 Flint Jackson yawned his way across the near-empty supermarket parking lot, thumbs tucked into the shoulder straps of his backpack, black Acubra at a rakish angle hiding most of his tight blond curls. He wondered didn't American women have anything better to do? The supermarket had opened at 7:00 and already at 7:25 there were forty vehicles par...
Note: When I started on this, I actually intended to do some corrections on a previous submission of mine. However, the thing developed its own dynamics and became a new story. Therefore, what I now have is a story inspired by an elder submission, but it does not have much to do with it anymore. I decided not to change the names, so, if you are one of those...
150. Let's Party (Thursday morning) "Maximilian, I am Colonel Lucius Canyon, adjutant to Mister William Zabo. He wants you to know the final count for the wedding of Doctor and Mrs. Joseph Finch is 267 people. That will not create a problem for you, will it?" Maximilian's heart started to pound. Where in 'God's name' was he going to get everything needed f...