Chapter Four - 'The Night Of' "I remind the parties that they can settle at any time before a verdict is reached and I recommend that you do. Do both counsellors acknowledge that," Judge Karl Brinkman made one last plea for the parties to settle and he said this in open court so that the jury understood exactly what was going on here. Adele Edwards and Jo...
In preparing her daughter for Paris, Madame de Chartes warned her, "If you judge from appearances in Court you will be deceived; truth and appearance seldom go together." That faded rose would twitch her skirts, and continue her discourse. "Ambition and gallantry are the soul of the court. There are so many cabals, men and women alike playing, that love is...
**Author's note** This is my first foray into the world of superheroines/superheroes so please if you have any suggestions or criticisms feel free to leave them a comment. Also please feel free to add to the story if you like. Also, while I absolutely love Gal Gadot, for me, Lynda Carter will always be 'Wonder Woman' in my eyes! The courtroom was packed. TV...
There are three classes of Tri-etherealians: Unamorphs, commoners and Trimorphs. A Unamorph can be of the noble class – those who inherited their wealth and status – or a civil aristocrat – those who possess wealth but are not nobility. Civil aristocrats control most of the wealth in Tri-ethereal. They are the bankers, the lawyers, the landlords, the shipbu...
~o Curious Virgins o~ A raven haired beauty appeared out of the trees, young and buxom. Her skin was snow white and her lips like crimson splashed across her soft, cheeky face. She wore an erotic mockery of a funeral dress, black with the skirt cut short and loose with a top cut tight and low. Her big breasts pushed up in a fountain of ivory cleavage and he...
Winter two thousand thirteen On a gloomy cold winter weekday morning I looked in on my children as they lay sleeping one more time knowing that it would be the last day, I would see them for quite a while. According to the inside source I had, a clerk working for my wife had informed me that Phyllis had filed the papers with the court the previous day. My l...
PART ONE Chapter 1 The battered red Porsche, inherited (compete with scrape marks and dents) from the driver's late mother, swept into the one-way loop at the farmhouse. Three expertly applied chops of the manual gear shifts meant only a gentle touch of the brake was required to stop the vehicle under the portico of the 8-bedroom two-level high-country h...
Beep...Beep...Beep... The rhythmic beat of Danny Effron's heart filled the CCU room. He stirred, slowly regaining consciousness. Opening his eyes he waited until he could focus. He was in a hospital room. The pain screamed though his nerve ends. He had just wanted them to let him die. "Let me go." Pip...pip...pip...pip... "Please just let me die." Pip.....
When the rains dried up, and the famine spread over the land, many families faced extreme hardship. Her parents, with six children to feed, tried to cope the best they could, selling off their extra cattle and even taking in boarders that would pay in either money or work for their bed and meals. Tabitha was a young girl, and didn't know much about such thin...
Note: please feel free to give me feedback. Also, the main focus of this story is not sex, it does contain it but the first chapter is basically building up to the real love story. Hope you enjoy! Prologue Hy Breasail : elusive island to the west of Ireland Here the fae folk live and play away from the prying eyes of humans. They once had lived amongst t...