Hello, and welcome to the twentieth, and final, issue of Tales from Snippettsville, Short Stories From A Small Town. If you want to know what it's all been about, go to Snippettsville Group If you have any feedback on the stories, and let's face it, as writers we all love feedback, just click on the author's name, in blue at the head of their piece. If y...
Chapter 21 -- A New Normal "I can't get over how 'normal' you all appear to be," Joyce exclaimed after Alice, Julie, and Dave had responded to her various questions for the past half-hour about their life and marriage. Dave wondered about her excessive curiosity. There was more there than simple prurient interest. Dave teased, "Despite?" Joyce nodded and...
Tuesday, May 24 The Kings of Minnesota Bad press had never been a problem for Carl Fenton. As Minnesota's most prominent, most successful, most expensive criminal defense attorney, he had always experienced the best publicity money could buy. Always, until this morning. This morning, for the first time in his life, Carl Fenton was reading a news story with...
Ten months later Twelve pairs of eyes intently followed his movements as the Public Defender hefted Exhibit #24, a flat-bladed Bowie knife, its serrated edge sharp enough to slice through a sheet of paper. His fingers lifted it with reverence, his eyes focused on its shiny, silver shape. "The Prosecution wants you to believe that Dennis Kennedy used this k...
Editor's note: this story contains scenes of incest or incest content. ***** Chapter 11 – Subtle Conversions Friday night Dave felt devilish. For a change, there were no grandparents around for the weekend. Everyone in the Circle had a fiendish smile on their face. This would be the first night in ages that the Circle could engage in one of their group s...
Chapter 15 – Opening the Kimono Karen's face lit up the twenty-seven inch screen on the iMac in Alice and Julie's shared home office. The sisters were having their first serious communication together via FaceTime since the Thanksgiving holiday weekend when the 'Big Swap' had taken place with Alice and Julie going to Karen's in Ohio, and Candy joining Dave...
Editor's note: this story contains scenes of incest or incest content. ***** Chapter 11 - Nikky Dave sauntered down the hall in the Administration Division. He was well-known, and so the presence of a vice president in the utility in the trenches was obvious and highly noteworthy. He made a few false turns, and then found what he was looking for. He stuc...
Chapter 16 - Security The Circle Security Committee sat around the board room table. The members included: Dale Harnett of Harnett Security, Dave Prentiss, Rose Prentiss, Lt. James Hotch of the Circle and Sarasota Sheriff's Department, Owen Bennett, and Julie Prentiss-Bennett. Dale had also invited Lucas Donovan -- the head of security for Worthington Indus...
Chapter 11 – Was that bait? "Would you show me the Circle?" The question came from Jenny Harvest. From the tremor in her voice Dave figured she taken at least all-day to work up to the question. "Of course," Dave replied. "If you want, you can follow me home and then leave whenever you want. We do a cocktail hour in the early evening, and then I also inv...
I didn't set the alarm clock for Monday morning, I simply let the autumn sunshine gently wake me. The coffee was waiting, I gathered up the morning paper which had been deposited at my door and plopped on the sofa to dwell over it and the rest of the pot of coffee. As my mantel clock struck 9:00, I realized it was time to get ready for my luncheon with Mr....