The Princess Barellia was decidedly bored with her day. She had woken up that morning in her four poster bed, when the sun shining through her windows had finally managed to heat up her face through the thick curtains hanging down. It had woken her from a drowsy half sleep where she had had any number of entertaining dreams that she could only remember glimp...
"You okay, Rosie?" he would always ask. "Yeah," I would usually respond. But most of the time I wasn't sure if I was okay. I wasn't sure of anything, really. I didn't know how he felt. I didn't even know how I felt about him. I wasn't supposed to, anyway. After all, he's Selena's husband. She and I have been friends forever. If I was certain of anything,...
Instantly as I walked in through the front door, our eyes met. He looked at me as if it were the first time he had seen me. Well, it had been a very long time since we had seen each other, and this visit was long over do. I couldn't fight back the smile that slowly crept across my face- he was just so perfectly gorgeous! "Hey there stranger!" he said in a l...
I forcefully slam my hand down upon the blaring alarm clock as the noise pierces my eardrums like a sharp knife through soft butter. I reluctantly rise, wipe the sleep from my eyes and then stagger into the bathroom to take a nice hot shower. I get dressed and think of all the fun things I would be doing during the week I will be visiting Hawaii for a well-...
He couldn't believe it. Of all the days for him to be caught in traffic, it had to be today! He was running late as it is. Nothing had gone how he planned; everything had taken longer than it should have done. He glanced once more at his watch, half an hour late and he still had at least another 45 minutes left to travel - if he ever got out of this jam! Sh...
I'm sitting on the couch waiting for the familiar sound of your car being parked and then your keys jingling in the lock. Tonight is no normal night as far as my plans are concerned! Car... Keys... I leap up and stand in the corner next to the door; the instant you walk in I snatch your glasses away from you and put a blindfold over your eyes. You try to p...
"Why do I always get the worst assignments?" Icy Butt grumbled to himself as he waited to board the plane from Austin to New York. He had been a foot soldier in Don Armani's Mafia family for over 20 years, despite living in Austin and far away from his family. The nickname "Icy Butt" was a joke about the way he hated the heat and always used the air conditio...
I'm coming to you tonight, my best friend, and my confidant. We talk almost every day and yet, after tonight...it will be different. When I enter the room, we smile shyly at each other; I walk over to you so we are face to face. I put my arms around you for a hug and we just hold each other. We both know how important this night is...it will be the only on...
At 1:30 in the morning a weary-eyed writer sat at the keyboard of his computer contemplating of the crap he'd written over past months – well, not altogether crap as some of it was meritoriously written, even if he'd say that himself. But then he was a professional journalist quite capable of exercising critical judgment. The journalist was comfortable know...
Leaning over the body on the bed, I felt for a pulse. Acknowledging the thump-thump-thump against my fingers, I straightened. "How long has she been unconscious?" I asked him. "For about twenty minutes. How long does the drug last?" He questioned in return. "She should be waking up in the next half hour, but she won't remember a thing in the morning." I r...