"Eee made their glowin' colours, Eee made their tiny wings... Aww fings bright and beaut-ee-fuw - aw creech-aahs grate ain' smaw..." The school choir really wasn't on form today Sarah thought. For months she had been trying to make them say the words correctly let alone get them in tune or, god forbid, use a harmony. Anita Murphy, the tubby year nine girl i...
The City Of Angels, Spring 2008 (Note: Part 5 ran seven pages, which was longer than I like. Part 6 is longer, so I have subdivided it.) For this section: Chapters 42, 43 and 45 include violence. Bad things happen to bad folks. Chapter 46 includes sex. This is a work of fiction. However, the record supports the historical references below (Mongols, Mand...
CHAPTER 1 Late autumn snow had arrived. The riding school was closed until mid-spring so Rogan was ready to leave for his winter job splitting logs at the firewood and coal supply depot in the town as soon as Marin had arrived back from feeding hay to the horses that spent nights and stormy weather in the barn. "The kids are asleep. Have a cheerful day," R...
Chapter 1 I felt an incredible pain all over my body as I awoke, thinking to myself that this was the hangover from Hell. I didn't know just how accurate that statement was, however, until I noticed the heat all around me and smelled the Sulphur smell ... and then heard the screams of agony from everywhere, in every direction. I looked around and saw people...
INTRODUCTION Probably the least successful of all dude ranches in America has been Sarah McKenzie's Dude Ranch on Lake Knead Island in Kansas. It's had four initiated foreclosures on it in the past seven years and in the tradition of singer Loretta Lynn's dad, Sarah's dad who was a resident in a nursing home, always managed to find the money from somewhere...
New capabilities, The Wanderer wanders. Pirates plan. The Wanderer finally enters the story. New capabilities for some ships. Pirates make plans to hit the platform, again! Because of the amount of abbreviations in this story, I include a glossary. By popular request, this has been moved to the end of the chapter. There is little attempt to explain the...
Author's note: This is a long story, some 68,000 words in total. If you don't like lengthy stories, please pass this one by because you will not enjoy it. The story is being posted in 4 Parts submitted one day apart. Thanks to Blackrandl1958 for her editing skills. I would also like thank Harddaysknight for taking a lot of time and energy to beta-read this...
Centaur Love VIII First off I want to say thank you to taco1085 for willing to accept the Herculean task of editing my hot garbage. Please everyone give him a thumbs up for taking on this task. Second, I want to thank you the readers for following my story, without you Mathew and Felicia's story would never come to light. As in all previous stories and err...
Mr Computer Cleaner Pt 4 The setting is a small city in New Zealand. The hero with the odd name of Dio falls into an usual occupation that connects him to an assortment of offbeat characters; it becomes apparent that Dio is enjoying a life richer in many ways than most people around him. Dio is between girlfriends when he meets a damsel in distress on the...
In February 1978 a Regional Meeting of the Commonwealth Heads of Government (CHOGM) was being held in Sydney, Australia. In the early hours of February the 13th 1978 an explosive device detonated inside a garbage truck outside Sydney's Hilton Hotel. Two council workers were killed by the blast and a policeman died later from injuries received. This much is...