CHAPTER 1 Operations manager Dwy (Dwight) Smith looked at the one paragraph summaries of the five applications who'd been short listed as possibly suited to become his new assistant. He scowled and snarled 'Fuck' and immediately apologized to office manager Irene Day. She ran HR as part of her duties in the small company that imported and distributed access...
It's highly recommended that you read part one of this story before this one. Cheers. If it hadn't been for the plume of dust that lingered above their driveway, I would have got lost for sure. Sharon Arnold, my immediate boss in the English faculty, lived with her husband Marcus on a property about eight kilometres out of town. Eucalypts lining the drive a...
The Chaotic King lifted the silver chalice to his lips, the low rumble of voices around him making his ears twitch. The pleasantries making him shrivel on the inside of boredom. Not that the atmosphere of metaphorical bloodshed in the air warranted his deposition. The broad king shifted in his simple blackwood throne that his father had sat on before him. H...
CHAPTER 1 The taxi pulled up outside the all-white Fulton Mansion resplendent with light blue doors and shutters and harmonious architecture. The sole passenger Clark Fulton jumped out when seeing his departing sister-in-law about to enter her parents' Mercedes and called, "Hey, Fonda, wait up." She turned and Clark was dismayed at how lined the face of th...
Chapter One: It was late fall when mother announced she was pregnant. For a long time I had wished for a brother or sister to share my childhood with and now it was finally going to happen. Dad and I were extremely happy and did all we could to make things easier for her. Time seemed to pass extraordinarily slowly for me. Dad and I did most of the housewor...
I choked on the dust and the smoke from the small explosion, and tried not to inhale any of it. Looking around the room, I saw Annissina standing on the other side, a maniacal gleam in her eyes. I stood, tried to wipe the grime off my clothes, and searched for some relatively clean air. "Never again!" I vowed. "I thought I was actually going to die that tim...
CHAPTER 1 BACKGROUND: Jack and Jill Hill have five married children and Frankie. Frankie has stringy hair, wears glasses, still suffers the occasional skin eruption, had been a straight 'A' student and her given name is Frances. * * * Unknown to Frankie Hill, the big worry for her parents, siblings and many of the extended family was her parents turning s...
Chapter 4: Destination Nowhere © Sadie Rose 1999 (Gore Warning: The culmination of this story is 'still' [apologies to Laurel and Manu] a tad violent, so anyone with a nervous disposition and/or weak stomach should cut away before the last page. Sorry :I ) SIMON "Why didn't you fucking wake me?" Simon yelled at his boyfriend, and not for the first time,...
Please read from part 1 first. Hope you enjoy the story. From Part 4 Carefully and slowly he spoke as his eyes went from one to the other in the room, "Um hello Patricia. What a surprise, I never expected to see you again." His eyes went to fix on his sister, expecting an explanation which seemed to be forthcoming as she rose from her seat. He was partl...
It would be a good career move, my managing director told me. I'd overseen the drawings and costings for the project, so why not see it through to its completion, he insisted? So, I packed my bags, left my girlfriend behind and relocated to a comfortable hotel on the east coast. It took me twenty-four hours to realise that the hotel the company had chosen w...