~~~~~~~~~~ desolation Function: Noun 1. the action of desolation 2a. grief, sadness 2b. loneliness 3. devastation, ruin 4. barren wasteland - Merriam Webster Online ~~~~~~~~~~ It was 5:00 AM when the alarm went off. Rene Ballinger moaned loudly and then cursed loudly and plaintively before she rolled over and hit the snooze button. She didn't even ope...
Nissi We had actually done it. The walls and roof had been up for over a month, but I suppose it hadn't been real to me until this moment, as I stood in the open space of the northeast chamber of the greenhouse with the loamy scent of freshly-tilled soil in the air and a commercial-size bag of seeds at my feet. We were planting our first crop. This entire...
Editing magic performed by KJ24 and Shyqash, plus contributions by the regular gang of brigands and neer-do-wells Loving your enemy is easy ... you know precisely where both of you stand In case anyone cares: I do not hate China or the Chinese People. As a Global Power, the PRC is fair game to be a great antagonist in a fiction story. Not only do they have...
"Oh, hey, Leyton! I was hoping you'd call. How's everything going up there, cuz?" "Good. We're getting close to making our quota for the entire season a couple of days early. Best season ever," he told his younger cousin. "I knew you'd do a great job. You should have had your own boat a long time ago." "That's very kind of you, Meghan, but I wasn't ready...
It wasn't the best night sleep I'd ever gotten, for a lot of different reasons. First of all, I wasn't used to my new surroundings. The last time I'd slept alone someplace other than my bed at my parent's house, was on the couch in the mountain cabin in Colorado. But I'd been so exhausted by what Ann and I had done that night that I'd fallen fast asleep, eve...
CHAPTER 1 The lithe and cutely breasted blonde, who fitted her jeans curvaceously, called loudly in a small bar in Central Otego in the South Island of New Zealand, "Where can a girl get some action around here?" She was ignored by the twenty or so men in the bar because she was 1)Female 2)American 3)Loud 4)And the guys were either married or in a relati...
"Hey Jace, what're you up to tomorrow?" crackled Joey's friendly voice over the phone line. "Going to the Concours. What else is there?" Jason replied with a laugh, not surprised at hearing from his best old car buddy. "I figured that and have a little proposition for you to consider." "Shoot." "You know that we're taking four cars there tomorrow." "Yea...
Hiding a Company sniper from drug lord killers. * My name is Bernice McDonald and I am the very happy owner/ operator of a couple of children's day-care centers. I love my life and I love this work. I love children and since I have one of my own this helps satisfy my need to nurture. I have not always felt or recognized this need. I was born in a remote...
Note: some of my characters will speak foreign languages. I could have left the original text (because of course I'm prefectly fluent in both indi and thai ;-)) but for your sake I decided to translate it into bad english (;-) again). So to signify that the characters aren't speaking in english I've inserted the - sign at the begining and ending of each sent...
Montauk, New YorkDawn, October 5th, 2018 "It's going to be fine, Finn. This is going to work. I love you." I kept my voice from quavering as I stared into Finn's eyes. His fear and love shone through and made it that much more difficult for me to maintain any semblance of calm. My heart was beating so hard that I became worried about a coronary. Wouldn't...