I'm Steve and I've been married to my gorgeous wife Darlene for three years now. I guess you could say we are country folks. I grew up living and working on a farm. Darlene is a country girl. A real blue jean, sneaker wearing girl. Never saw her wear a pair of high heels until our wedding day and not a pair since. We live in the little single wide trailer...
The USO had announced that there was a country benefit concert at Pairs Island months ago, but just a few weeks before the show, a raffle was held for an once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. That opportunity was a chance to go backstage after the show and meet two of the performers, Taylor Swift and Kasey Muskgraves. Every marine serial number was entered into a...
Introduction - Forward by Master-Historian Maritza Ortskt-Dukovna Every country has its legends; the stories of people whose lives have transcended historical reality into that strange space between truth and fantasy. The Grand Duchy of Upper Danubia (or the Danubian Republic, as we prefer to call ourselves today) is certainly no exception to that common tr...
It was quite a sight thirty two women in the communal bath in a large country house. They were the very well born members of the families who belong to the secret society that still today after three hundred years runs the country. All these women having given birth to the required two children had been sold by their husbands to the society as slave girls. S...
As you're driving through rural Alabama you pull off to the side of the road to take a call on your cell. As you're on the call, you absently scan the rural landscape. You're on a two-lane road with little traffic. On either side are thick woods, green with summer growth. The air is hot and humid, one of those thick southern afternoons. 5 minutes outside me...
Victoria was middle aged, with a husband and 3 grown up children, who had all left home. With her husband still working full time, and with no children to look after any more, she became increasingly restless and bored. At her age, the thought of returning to full time work was not appealing. But she still felt the need to do something meaningful and worth...
Hot sunny days are always good and always seem to raise my interest in pushing the boundaries of what I'll get up to. So sat outside, nude in the sun one afternoon my mind wandered to driving out into the country. Of course, driving into the country wasn't that much of an issue. The question I had for myself was, what was I going to do once I'd found somewhe...
World Peace Initiative Back on the Poseidon and ready to return to Earth, Mark could tell something was bothering Rayven. Figuring it was because he had left her on the ship today, he apologized for not taking her to the surface. Rayven just hugged him and said that wasn't what was upsetting her, as she started describing the call she just had with Annabel...
"Go, go, go, go, go, mister, go," she said, looking over her shoulder out the back window of my car. I pulled out into the road, accelerating a little faster than I might normally, but not really fast. Not fast enough. The 4x4 with the huge tires slammed into the back of my BMW with his fat, thick bumper guards and jolted us forward. My head hit the headre...
It is amazing what can happen in one night, isn’t it? When I left my apartment that evening I had no idea that my life was about to change forever. I was 23 years old and had just moved to town, leaving all my family and friends a thousand miles away. I was one month into graduate school, and temporarily forget that I had a life away from classes and books....