This story is quite long, but if you're a true fan of horror, you have to give it a full read. Mild incest is included. * "Are you sure you guys don't want me to come with you?" I asked. My mother shook her head as she hurriedly pulled on her long black jacket and wrapped her scarf around her neck. "Chris, I know you must be worried about your grandma,...
~*~Chapter 3: Talia~*~ "She is resting," a familiar voice said. Zinfer turned to see the queen enter the solar, graceful as always in a flowing dress of gray silk. An onyx tiara circled the top of her head and glimmered in the fire that Zinfer had lit in the stone hearth. "Thank you, Craglia," Zinfer said reverently, bowing deep with his right hand at h...
Emily's hands were shaking as she fumbled for her keys to the front door in the porch light. "I can't believe I'm doing this." she thought. She opened the door and glanced back the well dressed, dark skinned man standing a few steps behind her. She smiled and motioned for him to come inside. As Marvell stepped across the threshold, she quickly closed the doo...
In a room full of preening playboys, this man stands out. They circle and leer and lunge. He hangs back. The predatory hoof-drag-huff-and-snort, the gaudy-ruffled-feather dance around me, blurs and fades to background noise against his subtler brand of watchfulness. As the night slides on, he's all I see. A residual veneer of vanity won't allow me to rea...
**Author's Note: Half way through writing the story I decided to change my heroine's name from "Lydia" to "Lyra". I think I got all the Lydias but if I missed one please know I mean "Lyra" and not a new character. ******** Lyra watched the dark waves rolling and crashing onto the gray shore as she sat on the dock with her sketch pad. The salty spray in her...
Author's Note: I don't profess to be an expert on a creature that may or may not even exist. Some of the things you'll read in this story have been read, watched, and listened to online by me (the Ohio howls for example). On the other hand, some of the things in this story are from my imagination. So please don't be upset if certain "facts" are inaccurate. A...
Michele's Dark Destiny: the Cabo Affair I had witnessed the awakening of unspoken desire in my wife, Michele, though I remained unaware that it would lead to obsession and beyond. We had entered a new world, with Michele falling again and again into the 'zone' that she had discovered those two nights. A zone in which nothing mattered but her desire. She wou...
Special thanks to ashpuppy who took time out of her schedule to edit this for me. **** I went with Lou to a law symposium last spring at an upscale hotel in Phoenix where he got to watch me turn in on for another man. I wore an unusually revealing black dress that evening. It was shorter than anything Lou had ever seen me wear in public. Being that this...
Keira Dawn sighed as the bookstore became quiet and empty again. Reorganizing books that have been left on tables, Keira's mind wandered as she looked outside. Her bookstore was like an old relic, standing alone along all the new aged stores and electronics. It stood out from all the smooth concrete and bold advertising logos. It was an old brownstone buildi...
Susanna let out a long sigh and shook her head, damp brown hair falling into her eyes as she looked at the terracotta pot on the windowsill. The seedlings inside were wilted; their tiny, delicate leaves curled in a mockery of her tender care. She brushed the hair out of her eyes slowly and rubbed one hand across them, defeated. Plants just did not like her,...