CHAPTER 1 Stressed-out from working under pressure in marketing at Roebuck Industries for nine years, the last two as a marketing director, Louise Flint resigned, and signed in to a health resort after leaving. During idle chat, one of her therapists suggested it was time she should marry. Louise sighed. She'd often thought she should do that before her o...
Misty questioned the aptness of the phrase, 'the enemy of my enemy is my friend,' to her current circumstance. Maybe it should go, 'the enemy of my enemy is happy to use me to get a one up on her enemy, but is in no way inclined to be my friend or even treat me as an equal'. Or perhaps, 'I've got a bad feeling about this', would suffice. Maybe it was because...
Chapter 35 After an hour, Lukas indeed returned, and he brought George along with him. George looked very intently at Paul and kneeled beside the bed, I could see he was incredibly relieved to see him awake and alert, but dared not hug him for fear of hurting his dear friend. Paul stiffly held out his hands and excused himself: 'I cannot do better than th...
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 and soon it becomes apparent that 'Mr Computer Cleaner' is enjoying a life richer in many ways than most people around him. Dio meets twenty year old Carra; the couple gradually break-down the h...
I got back to my apartment on Thursday afternoon at about 4:30, after my weekly two-hour child psychology seminar. I kicked off my shoes, leafed through the mail, and saw the red message light on my answering machine blinking. Two messages. First message: "Hi Amy, it's Janie. Wondered if you might like to go out for a bite this evening, say around 6:30? Give...
This is chapter 1 of a 3 chapter story. Sincere thanks to CWatson, for his editing efforts on this large job. I've made a few changes since he reviewed the draft so its likely any 'clangers' are mine. (A Swag is a canvas bed roll, usually including a basic foam mattress and blankets.) * Don had worked hard this morning, and thought he'd earned a break--...
Sandra cursed as the car in front of her stopped for the red light, in her opinion far too conservatively. She was in a hurry, and had been so for a long time. Landing a job as an assistant lawyer at a small firm, specialized at environmental law, was the perfect opportunity, and more than she had dared to hope for fresh out of law school. Making a career ou...
Prologue "Willow!" I gasped. For a moment I went through that sense of unreality you get when you suddenly come upon someone unexpectedly, someone you never expect to see again. "Ross," she breathed softly, her face draining of blood. Unable for the moment to speak, we stood staring at each other. It had been four years since I had last seen her and for...
Chapter 21 - Kentucky Google will tell you that using the Interstate highways it should take just under two hours to get from Hamilton, Ohio, to Lexington, Kentucky. Dave took the back roads and made lots of stops. At three-thirty in the afternoon, he still hadn't quite reached Lexington, and he'd been on the road since eight that morning after leaving Mart...
There is no sex in this story, other than implied. It's a story of how people react to the circumstances they are in. It's also a story about luck ... good and bad. * My name is Jacob Phaltz, but almost everyone knows me as Jake. My parents emigrated from West Germany in 1979, well before the reunification of their home country. My mother was pregnant with...