Hello and welcome to my readers. Thank you for your votes, feedback and comments on my previous submittals. It is always a pleasure hearing from you. A caveat: this little tale may change the way you look at a popular Holiday confection. Read on and enjoy. ________________________ "VeryMerry Baking Company, fruitcake our specialty, good morning, how may I...
After eighteen years, the Company that my husband and I started when we first got married had finally struck gold, the years of going without many things, may have finally ended. Our biggest setback was my car accident, which had left me with two useless legs from mid thigh down, and confined to a wheel chair for life. We had both just accepted that and got...
It was the middle of December, a mere week before Christmas. The days had grown short and the snow in the streets was mushy and dirty while new snow kept on falling slowly off the sky. At least it isn't windy, Lucy thought. She wasn't the type to cry about the hand she had been dealt with. Optimism was the one thing she still had to hold on to. She had been...
**Note: This is my first story, ever. If the feedback is positive, I'll add more, but for now I have purposefully left the story in a "cliffhanger" state. To Admin- per submission rules, I am requesting that you leave in the italics I have included. * You know how some people can be comfortable in any sort of social situation? They're naturally charismatic...
"Of all the gifts which heaven can bestow, there is one above all measure; that is a friend amidst all our woe, for a friend is a found treasure. I give to thee that sacred name, for thou art such to me and ever will I claim to be that friend to thee." -- Thomas Steven, 19th-century silk weaver. The woman who stepped through the airlock and into the brothel...
Friday & Saturday - Bonding Whew. I felt drained. That was definitely the longest session yet. Daddy had gone to some effort to make sure a droid got off ... and I was pretty sure he'd been thinking about me the whole time. Which was way cool. I just lay there on the pillows and stared up at the ceiling, playing it back in my head. With a start, I realized...
Fictional story about fictional characters ***** Penny was very proud of herself: with all the hasty, hectic preparations surrounding Howard and Bernadette's wedding; she had succeeded in planning a bachelorette party for her best friend. She almost chuckled out loud, thinking about how Bernadette was sincerely her best friend. A couple years ago she never...
CHAPTER 1 The clothing trade was in my blood. Living in Leeds it was almost synonymous with being Jewish. Our people escaping pogroms had not been able to carry much, but with needles and skill they started to set up businesses in overcrowded slums in the poorest part of the city. As things got better, the Jewish community steadily moved north into better...
~sigh~ OK, this might go a chapter or two beyond what I'd envisioned. -------------------- Aurora did do it to him the very next Saturday. She caught a ride over with a few of her friends who were going shopping. She made the quick introductions and asked Will if she could use his room to change. He nodded and she went into the house to get her one-piece l...
The multi corporation, 'TGirl4Life' had combined cloned human DNA and Nano-technology in what they called an 'Androgenous hybrid,' to all intents and purposes a living, breathing human. This new person, however, was created from artificial bones and flesh and already the equivalent of a nineteen year old. Their factory was in a discrete area of an ordinary...