Synopsis: Marge is happy with her young live-in lover, Peter has begun an affair with Anne, and Anne's husband has offered Peter a partnership in the purchase of a classic schooner-yacht. Chapter Five Peter and Marge were asleep when Kenny came home, but the next morning, before Peter left for the office, he knocked on Kenny's door. "Who is it?" Peter...
Helios' midday sun shone with an oppressive heat across Daleford, as it cooked the inhabitants into a lazy stupor. The Baron's guards had discarded their armour, elderly folk squabbled for troughs to bathe in and priest prayed to Ull for a cooler respite. Cole was no exception, his bovine ears flapped to try to circulate a breeze as he dragged his hooves and...
Chapter 03 Mr Gupta takes control When Susan and John returned to their nice apartment, that evening, they were both very subdued. Susan thought back over her very comfortable and rather affluent childhood and her brilliant success in school. Her husband John was in exactly the same position. They just couldn't understand how it had gone so wrong. They li...
Joshua huddled in the corner of the car as the other shifters talked about what they would do once they were home. He was glad they had given up their efforts to converse with him as he wanted to be alone with his thoughts. The journey to Colorado Springs had taken up most of his energy and his time with Passion in the forest had disturbed his peace of min...
Jenna was SO EXCITED!! Her freshman year of college had just ended last week but the week before that her roommate had let her know about an amazing opportunity. PARIS - LONDON - ROME- She couldn't believe it really. It was a summer study abroad trip and one of the students had canceled at the last minute. The price was amazingly low and although Jenna wasn'...
I was en route to Mumbai to Kolkata to take up my first job there. So I decided to travel in style, by 1st class air-conditioned coach, and here I was this Friday evening at 7 P.M. I was lucky to get a 2-seater coupe. To my utter surprise, the other occupant who was already there, was my mother's younger cousin, my aunt Polly, a most pleasant looking lady, n...
Vice Cop: The Beginning New York City, 1985 Hudson Banach's Polish father had been a cop in the post-World War IIdays, a Poznan, and he had retired years ago to start a family in America. He told Hudson of his many experiences in those often dangerous times whenItaly was just coming off its darkest days. His stories and accounts were full ofintrigue and ad...
August 3, 1989 - Natalie and Conrad Natalie paced back and forth alongside her parked car. She stopped alongside the cars passenger window. She bit a nail, trying to stem her nervousness. What if this man, this Conrad, doesn't like her? What if she doesn't like him? Yesterday she had been so excited after Katy had told her about him she couldn't think strai...
Chapter 6 - The Story of Fantine It then passed to Fantine to tell her own tale. She spoke in her broken English and lapsed into French for the more difficult parts. Liz' French was rusty but she was able to keep up. ---- Fantine told of being born in the south of France in 1866. Her father was a captain in The Gendarmerie. Her mother was a merchant's dau...
Susan was walking down Canterbury High Street, searching in every shop. Rob was such a hard person to buy Christmas presents for. He seemed so inventive, but then she thought, for the last three years he'd given her diamonds, so that wasn't very inventive, was it? This year 2004 he had asked her to have her nipples and labia pierced, and was going to have a...