Chapter 1 Luke Skywalker sat alone in his meditation room. As he slowly stood up, recovering from his Force induced trance, he felt exhausted instead of rejuvenated. In the course of his meditation, he had peered far into the future. Now he was trembling slightly and covered in perspiration. Trying to focus on the dimly lit room around him he shuddered as a...
*Attention- This is a work of fiction, and all characters are fictional. Some facts may not be reasonable, but for the story, they had to be put in, so bear with me. Also, use your imagination a little please. Thanks for all the positive feedback including the positive constructive criticism. I am enjoying this series and have ideas with this character and w...
A New York City Apartment Marla D. Deering, born Marla Darling Dexter, was bored. She slumped in the luxuriously over-stuffed chair and frowned at her loneliness. Her life had gone from an exciting and liberating string of clubs and one night stands to endless days at home and one familiar "stand" per week. Her old friends never called and she longed for th...
Kylie finished up her gym routine with a light run every day. She went through the same circuits through a week. Open with a jog, move on to a form of lifting that depended on the day of the week, and then she closed with a jog. Sundays were the exception. She went swimming instead. She'd be lying if she said the purpose of the gym had anything to do with h...
Author's Notes: This story is based on true events. I have changed some situations around for a better flow and changed all the names to protect those involved, but that's it. Thanks to those who helped make this a much better read. You know who you are. All participants are 18 or above. ***** "Uni will be rough," my former English teacher had cautioned...
*Author's Note: The idea for this story comes from a reader who sent me a link to a story about a couple whose first 'kiss' came during the CPR the woman performed on him after he collapsed on the beach. She happened to be a medical doctor, so it seemed reasonable to make the female main character in this story an MD, too. I was amazed at how much the phot...
This story is set in the near future. Some of the medications, procedures and technical advances detailed within have not been introduced -- yet. ***** Chapter One I had never believed in love at first sight until the brunette with the mesmerizing gray eyes appeared. She arrived late; the party was already well underway. She wasn't supermodel stunning;...
Chapter 14 I woke to the sound of typing. She wasn't being loud about it, not trying to be obnoxious, it was just the soft clicky-clack of the keys of her keyboard as she fired off whatever she was writing. She had the same tendency I did however, to hit the end of a sentence harder, giving the keyboard a nice, soft whack every time. Just some unconscious...
Chapter 1 The cold front covering New England was so intense that the conditions outside Karen Lincoln's nineteen-twenties farmhouse were Siberian-like and according to the local radio station's weather forecast, it was unlikely to get any warmer over the next five days. It had snowed heavily for three days, leaving a blanket of snow three feet deep and iso...
Gwen Hammer was outwardly calm as her incredible husband knelt before her, even as all the others in the Great Kremlin Palace struggled to regain their composure. Though there were very few journalists in the hall for such an auspicious occasion and fewer cameras, such was the power of the internet for spreading news that the entire world had just born witne...