She's running to the car before I even come to a stop. Hell, she's flaying across the lot as soon as she sees me turn in. Her long, loose brown peasant skirt matches her hair in the way it flaps in the soft breeze. Even from afar, and with her naturally tanned skin, I can see that a welting bruise is hugging to her left cheek. Shrinking distance between reve...
Since I took over the business, I really don't have much time in my life to socialize so that may be one reason that I made the appointment. When I entered her office I gave her the forms that I had filled out in the waiting room. They more or less explained why I was there and what I expected or wanted to happen. First off, I'm thirty one years old. My bra...
It was the party at the pub that brought matters to a head with the girl Julie. All evening I had watched how Steve would quietly drift off when the girl left the room. Keeping myself at a discreet distance, pretending just to be circulating amongst the guests I let him have his way seeing how far he would go. At eleven thirty the call went round for those w...
Author's note: Another tale in my CATU/Black List universe. This time taking you to a time in history somewhere in the 1400s Spain. A random tale of a order of Knights trying to protect their homeland from an evil. * A baby cries out in the night. Blood covers her as she is handed to her mother for the first time. Upon reaching her mother's comforting arms...
Dawn, who has been a very good friend of mine for years, asked me a question in the course of a conversation that surprised me. The reason that she asked didn't surprise me it was just the fact that she asked it. Dawn and her husband Tony had been on and off for years. They never actually separated but they had lived emotionally separated for years. My husb...
"I'm not ready to go back yet, but it's not like there's anything I can do about it, so I might as well just go with it," I said, half-staring down at my own feet. It was the day before I would begin the long four of years of the hell that was high school, and although I was intrigued by the idea of new people, a new building, and hopefully better food, my e...
Chapter Eleven – Lilith the Avenger Jadranka, formerly known to the world as Danka, presented herself to her professors. She recognized two of the instructors from the Followers' celebrations she had attended earlier in the year. However, there was no special interaction with them. The Cult of the Ancients had dissolved, its members had cut themselves off f...
Chapter Nine -- Come Fly With Me Candi breezed through the remainder of the course; her five years experience as head waiter at one of London's leading restaurants gave her a distinct advantage over the others when it came to providing personal in-flight passenger service. Candi was so good at it that the instructors used her as an exemplar for the other s...
All characters are adults. Reminder: Noire isn't uplift that improves your mind and makes you a better person. Noire is life without its lipstick and perfume. So if you're a delicate snowflake you may want to brew some tea and go read some poems. ***** The bad, the worse, and the ugly Sitting on a sofa across the room from me I saw a good looking older...
The aftermath of September 11, 2001 sent shockwaves worldwide... but even more so throughout the U.S. than anywhere else. There were almost immediate backlashes against Muslims... even ones who'd been living in the country all of their lives! Various Islamic organizations in the U.S. denounced the tragedy as acts of violence perpetrated by evil-minded indivi...