I have never been a great sleeper. I sleep lightly, waking up often unless I've been screwed into exhaustion. I was wide-awake at six a.m. As I came out of the bathroom, Carrie was still sleeping soundly. She looked so young and innocent. I had a passing thought. I could see myself being exposed on the evening news as the neighborhood dirty old man, lusting...
I don't want to marry him father!" Rashida yelled. She was tired of the same conversation that she had with her father every day. "Khaldun is a great man and head general of my army. He is the perfect man for you." "No father, he is the perfect man because you need an heir and he will one day fill your shoes," she spat back venomously. Pharaoh sat upon hi...
The bar was named "Misery's". The owner bought the bar a few years back after a nasty divorce. In his mind renaming the rundown club after his bout with depression kept him from literally losing it all. A message that even his therapist found profound. His therapist frequents this bar out of respect. Tonight, Keith Foxx and his buddy Ellis Dupree were goin...
PotC Cabin Fever Captain Jack Sparrow stood out on the deck of his beloved Black Pearl and smiled widely. The weather was fair, sea calm and he had the love and companionship of his first mate and personal cabin boy Will Turner. Jack's eyes roved to the slender young man standing a few feet away and who gazed seawards. Seeing the beautiful profile, Jack swa...
Chapter 7. Laura finds her Pasha - part 2. This is a good time to tell about my toys, stored for years in an old canvas travelling case on top of the wardrobe at Aunt Hilda's. Three years or so before I met Philip I had been wandering down Wharf Street looking idly in the shop windows. I came to a shabby small shop called Geo. Abbott, surgical supplies,...
Outside the cell. Robert Drake stood, sadly staring through the one-way glass into the room below. His face was stony, his expression cold. His wife, Kitty, leaned against him. She kept her face buried in his side, unable to face the view her husband endured. From the cool blue eyes she loved so much, amid the laugh lines and the beginning of crows' feet su...
It started exactly 2 months ago when I was attending a cocktail party in D.C. due to my friend, Jill, who works for a congressman, she was hosting the whole deal and wanted some support. I was roaming the hotel ballroom and looking out the 13th floor view of the city. I was wearing a little black dress, a little below my knees, strapless, and showed a gener...
I was feeling very unsettled as I made my way back to Nye's room. When I paused outside and heard voices from within blazing anger flared inside me. How dare they! He'd promised! I flung the door open, ready to give someone the earbashing of their lives... but all that met me were two startled faces. Nye and Kane were sitting up in bed, resting against the...
Wendy had spent the morning crying. It was how she had spent every morning of the past two years. It looked to be how she would spend every morning for the rest of her life. The physical suffering was no longer significant. He had said she would adapt, and she had. But the humiliation had never diminished. Rather, it had increased until she could barely thi...
"Oh Kevin, how many times do I have to tell you – red and green should never be seen," said Jade, dropping her carrier bags on the floor. She watched as Kevin, who had been lounging in an armchair, his legs propped up on the coffee table and his knuckles grazing the floor like a gorilla, jumped to his feet. "Didn't hear you come in," he said, pulling at t...