Prologue The final touches were done, everything was ready for the coronation, Richard, the new king was very nervous in his chambers waiting for it all to begin, he knew that he would arrive to this moment since he was a baby, but that was different from actually living it. As he paced the room he remembered all that had happen before this moment in time,...
***** A great many people have undertaken to portray Agatha Christie's Belgian detective, Hercule Poirot, but in my opinion, none has done it as well as David Suchet, star of ITW productions of Poirot. It is his image that I use as my visual and those of Hugh Fraser (Captain Hastings), Pauline Moran (Miss Lemon) and Philip Jackson (Chief Inspector Japp). ENJ...
((This is Chapter One of a five chapter story. Each chapter will feature some of the main, framing story of a bartender and a girl in a bar in modern times and also a full fantastical tale that one of them tells the other about one of their relatives. Both of their families are from the Appalachian Mountains of Tennessee and Kentucky, so the stories are told...
brie was happy to spend the time with Draven. Even if it meant after the festivities going back to how things were for a while longer. Surely they could get through four months. Their love was growing with each passing day. True brie could not serve Him as she hoped but there was plenty of time for that. The King stayed on a while after the wedding to make...
I had known Duke since basic. We had met my first day in the Marine Corp just after our first run down from our drill instructor and seventeen hours of pure hell. We hit it off right away and became fast friends. Duke was a big guy, built like a tank just like I was and swarthy skinned, Italian I think but with a name like Duke who could know. Anyway he di...
"Susannah, guess what? There are orcs in the city! A trade delegation or something...they must have travelled through Shropshire all the way to Ruar! Maybe you'll get a chance to see one after all!" Jeanette smiled at her friend as Susannah lit up with excitement. "Do you really think so? That would be so interesting...have you met any yet? How did you fin...
It had been a whole night since her encounter with the duke and still the dryad was bursting into tears at regular intervals. Every time she thought of what he had done to her a flood of sobbing came forth, and her mind could focus on little else. How he had forced her away from her home, how he had violated her pristine body. But she had one glimmer of hope...
I am a massuer, well, I used to be anyway. But coming down ill nearly a year ago put a cramp in things. Having a Doctor for a wife is an asset at times like this, and she researched options for weeks. Then suddenly we were on an airplane to Boston. After some treatments there, and a week's followup, I was back home. I set the Oxygen bottle down as soon as w...
Camen slumbered in Liana's bed. She had taken the restorative brew and fallen asleep - all the better to mend her battered body. It was supper time but Liana had no appetite. Shortly she would be expected downstairs to give the Duke his birthday gift and although she now found the idea of such things less objectionable than she had, his treatment of Liana ha...
"Thanks for taking the time out to read my story and send comments. I tried following some of your advice. Now I will have to work harder on the other chapters, as these three were ready in my mind -- rest I do not know myself :D" * CHAPTER 2 – CHANGING EMOTIONS Mrs. Weatherland interrupted this heated exchange which she remembered from the past so...