My name is Callie Charlotte Carruthers, and I am a spinster. I will be 100 years old on my next birthday which is not necessarily a blessing. But I am in possession of all my faculties and require very little assistance. I live in a suite of rooms atop the Carruthers Hotel. Few townspeople even know Iām here; I had gone to live in Europe- when my marriage fa...
I've never watched the subsequent sequels but the original 1980's Dynasty was one of the biggest television shows around. The weekly saga of the super wealthy, super sexy, and super shoulder pads. The saying "over the top" fits it perfectly. From the saintly Krystle to the villainous Alexis and the different shades of everyone in between. For those old enoug...
What? You've never had duck? Let's make a date, my house, Saturday night, 7 p.m. Wear something casual.ļ I age the duck. Clean it, split it, remove the backbone (which I save for the gravy ... see below), make small gashes in its skin (don't go into the muscle!), salt it down, put it on top of a rack, and let it sit in a cool place about 4 days. Fridge in...
They seemed perfect. He was smitten with her at first exposure. She was immediately attracted to him. Their initial friendship took a long time to form, to gel into a relationship. When it did, they were truly soul-mates. Yet they broke up. The break-up can best be ascribed to "sexual politics." That term, coined in the late sixties as a by-product of the f...
Palace Ruins AFTER LEAVING SHUMERIA ASH LEADS his companions to a place full of old looking columns, structures and bridges with pools of crystal clear water flowing throughout. "This was the palace of the Ashah Dynasty," Ash informs the other two. "Fifteen years ago Arris' army arrived here," Clint continues the history lesson. "This magnificent palace w...
Sostegaria... For over a millennium the fertile lands in the heart of this vast continent were ruled by the Holy Ashah Dynasty, descendants of Toroah the Messiah. However, it is man's doom to forget... Amidst all the wealth and exotic pleasures, the nobility lost their way and sank into corruption and depravity, forgetting even the holy teaching of Toroah....
"Sinners, you are all unrepentant sinners. You will accept the evil of your sins or suffer the consequences." Bristols, Mistress Paliqueen and Cruizerman stood quietly in the dock, arms pinioned behind their backs with very heavy shackles connecting to their ankles. "The ecclesiastical right to oversight of all humanities actions cannot be questioned by m...
I jes' turnt twunny-one an' muh Pa tol' me that crops was bad this year, so he couldn't gimme much o' nuthin', but he gimme five bucks an' tol me ta go inta town an' have myself a good time. On the way there I saw Uncle Odell. He asked whut I was doin' an' I tol him, an' he gimme five more dollars and said, "Follow Main Street to Willow, take a left, and thr...
Australian Katrina Boswell arrived at LA airport to be greeted by an assistant PR person, camera-woman and soundperson. Away to their right the candidate from the United Kingdom, actress and novelist Lisa Roughbottom, was besieged by the media, the CEO of the contest sponsors and a busload of semi-professional actors hired to create an orgy of excess in the...
The urge is building. My marriage...once strong and vibrant...has become a gilded cage. Release is inevitable. The little sex starved whore inside is waking up. I want to have an affair. I want to lose myself in a torrid, illicit, filthy encounter with a handsome stranger. Wait. No. Make that a string of handsome strangers. I will find these strangers in...