~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Chapter Sixteen – Transcendent ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Venus exists outside the realm of mere mortal experience. She is the transcendent goddess, beyond our mundane perceptions. "A Fool's Book of Wisdom" ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ She awoke to a sound and this time, she smiled. She recognized it immediately although she had never hear...
Copyright© 2008 by Denham Forrest, The Wanderer Chapter 3: Complications of Life as a Divorced Man Things didn't go as easily as all that, though. Vivian and I did have to see some arbitration or counsellor guy, not that it was much more than a waste of time. There were some uncomfortable confrontations between us, but not in front of the children. The di...
Chapter 34: Home "ALERT! ALERT! The valley has been breached!" Etaceh ran towards the gaggle of panicking gray witches angrily. "What was it? Do you see where it went?" A gray witch bowed respectfully. "The signal went out, but we could not see what it was. It disappeared." "Disappeared?" Etaceh rubbed her temples. "I swear to the Maker that if you do n...
This story, like all others, has a beginning. It starts with a door. All in all, it was quite a nice door: correct dimensions, made of cherry, with a big dream catcher hanging in the middle. It was also the only thing keeping me out of the bedroom. You see, the door was locked. I leaned forward, placed my ear against the door, and strained to hear what wa...
I must thank TLC for her incredible inspiration. She is Beauty and Desire…she is my Muse. Dani Evans sat, rather uncomfortably, at one of those small, tall tables in the lobby bar of the Beacon Marriot in downtown Boston. Surrounded by half a dozen coworkers from around the country gathered at their Quarterly Sales Conference, she felt alone. And whe...
I parked the car in the driveway in the same spot I had the day before. Surprisingly I found myself more nervous than I had the previous visit. After knocking on the door, I found myself shifting my weight from foot to foot, anticipation and excitement feeling like a ball inside the pit of my stomach. Victoria opened the door. The moment she smiled, the bal...
Chpater 5: Final Solution Ron stood under the cold water, allowing its rejuvenation of his abused body. Images of the conniving, thoughtful preplanning Toni had conceived thoroughly impressed him. Distractions, inclusive of one voluptuous scantily bikini clad body, southern belle performance, along with the preoccupation of earlier events, vainly he attempt...
Kanye reached out and grabbed the mike from Taylor. The nineteen year old blonde looked on in surprise as Kanye said, "Yo, Taylor, I'm really happy for you and I'll let you finish, but Beyonce had one of the best videos of all time." Katy Perry watched the stunned reaction of her friend Taylor on the stage as the young woman just stood there shocked. She ha...
Chapter 16 A warm late August breeze blew through the open window as Ryan got dressed for the surprise engagement party for Ms. Baker (or as he now knew her, Gabrielle De Brawn). It seemed to Ryan that the summer had flown by. In just a couple of weeks he would begin his senior year in high school. As he thought back, he realized that he was a very differen...
Note - This is my 2nd attempt at writing a story. I hope it pleases most of you. Fair note - it has infidelity, so if that angers you, like some of the comments on my last story, stop here, and go somewhere else. I thought that fiction is, by definition, understood to not be real. But the rage in some of the comments here makes me wonder. No one is begging t...