Chapter 25 Note: This is a work of FICTION! Although the areas this story takes place in are real; all of the landscapes depicted, the people described, everything else this story uses to make it enjoyable reading for you are NOT REAL. As you read this story, try to remember: This is a Novel 104. Hide in Plain Sight Patty would not take no for an answer,...
PRELUDE I met Jerri my first year of graduate school. We were in the same major, although we had different areas on interest. I was attracted to her from the moment I first saw her. She had dark brunette hair, a good figure, a pretty face, and large lips that screamed to be kissed. For two years Jerri was in several of the "core" classes with me. I befrien...
Book 5 – Major Events Chapter 1 – New Arrangements Nancy stood beside Dave's desk holding her iPad so Dave could see the display. She pointed at a dark green crescent of heavy rain in the southern Gulf of Mexico flecked with red and orange showing strong cells, "It's called Tropical Storm Bebe. It formed last night from a strong tropical depression just of...
Previously on "Midnight Movie Club" - Four college students cross paths at the beginning of their freshman year at Farragut College; military brat and film lover Julie Wyndham, laid back musician Cole Scales, modern-day flower child Eleanor Freeman, and kind and outgoing Alexander de'Armound. The first Saturday night at college ends with the sharing of a do...
© 2019 Victor Cabana It was just a lark. - - - - - On the first day of the last month of my college career I was cruising to graduation. With honors. My life was set. I had a great job lined up, and after Debbie, my high school sweetheart, and I reconnected this summer we'd get engaged. Two and a half kids, big house, happily ever after. All laid out. Bu...
This story is submitted as part of the "One Night in XXX" story event—a collection of stories that all take place in a single night in a specific place. "You're going to kill us both, Zhang," I told the cabbie in his native Mandarin as he whipped across two lanes to pass a Maserati on Al Asayel Street. "You don't want to die all alone, do you?" Zhang asked...
Sapphire was unpacking in her room, waiting to see what lesser being she would be stuck with for the duration of her time here. She was more than intelligent enough to do what she wished, but due to the systems in this country, she would have to have a 'degree' in order to be legally recognized at all. Sapphire soon heard the clicking of her door unlocking...
All companies, businesses, people and places described in this story are fictionalized. This chapter reads like a romance story and there is no sex in it. Thanks to Alwaysready64 for editing, without his help my story would not have ever got out into the ether. This is the last chapter of the story; I do not plan to write more. I hope I tied up all loo...
With a frenzy of fear and guilt, she reached for the phone hoping it would turn on. The glass bit scrapping her finger and she felt her heart pound with frustration at her anger and the fear Brad was lost. The pain in her chest was building as she could feel the heartbreak hitting her. He was the only man she knew she wanted, and a man that she wanted to sp...
Author's note: This story was a prizewinner in the Nude Day contest in 2014. I came upon it a couple of years later in my Old Stories folder and began to reread it. Being a compulsive editor, I couldn't stop myself from improving the story in certain minor ways, but I was much happier with the result. I've passed those changes along with this second edition....