It was hot. It was late. Everyone in the house was asleep but her. No matter how hard she tried, she couldn't talk herself into going to sleep. She got up. She put on that flannel shirt that only seemed to have one button that fastened near her belly button. She had it hidden in the bottom of the dresser and only put it on when she wanted to feel sexy. A boy...
Jeanne drove her Prius through the boringly familiar reaches she traveled every day on her way to work, dropping off her husband, or bringing Cody and Callie to school. The town of Middlesex was typically unremarkable suburban sprawl, so sleepy it could be described as rural. Jeanne was a honey-colored beauty who wore her lush golden brown hair braided with...
Tim fixed himself a cup of coffee then went out to the verandah to wait until the girls were ready. A short while later, Diane come to him and leaned down to kiss him firmly on the mouth. "Timmy, darling, do we have to wear every garment?" "No, I guess not. Getting in and out of some of those things could be a bit of a hassle. I do want to see everything,...
As with all stories of this nature.... It's a dark and stormy night. Victoria is finishing up her first solo beat as a rookie cop. She gets a call from dispatch that there's a disturbance at the old abandoned mansion at the edge of town. She's pretty sure it's a hoax, and the night's been long. She thinks about ignoring the call and just calling it a night,...
PART FOUR - BODRUM - 4 - "What is it?" asked Gabe staring down into the darkness of the newly discovered tunnel as they stood amongst the fallen stonework of the Castle wall, "Where does it lead?" "I believe it is a ley tunnel," Dr. Gerard replied, "I've read and heard a lot about them, but never seen one for real." "What's a ley tunnel?" "Tunnels runni...
It was hot. It was late. Everyone in the house was asleep but her. No matter how hard she tried, she couldn't talk herself into going to sleep. She got up. She put on that flannel shirt that only seemed to have one button that fastened near her belly button. She had it hidden in the bottom of the dresser and only put it on when she wanted to feel sexy. A boy...
Chapter 49 Room Full of Angels A couple of miles deep into the lush Manoa Valley, Aly pulled her Toyota into a driveway. I parked the Bronco on the street, Meka slid in behind me in her Volvo. We piled out of the cars. "This is nice," Hawk said looking at the house with it's tastefully lit sculpted Japanese garden. "Yes it is," Aly said, "but my place...
Grumble Pond Chapter 1 Joe Cooper was really looking forward to this day, as he's been working twelve days straight, and finally has a whole day off. He's a junior at Stanford University, majoring in electrical engineering, and has taken a twelve week summer job working as a '"Camp Helper," at Vogelsang High Sierra Camp in Yosemite National Park. The cam...
I was two blocks from the house and there were no other cars in sight. No one was following me so I began to think that maybe it wasn't John Parker that had visited Charlie that morning. Maybe it was a cop and Tony just didn't know about it. I was waiting at the light to make a left onto the Charleston Boulevard when I saw a silver Ford Explorer turning ri...
All things considered, the weather hadn't been a concern. This night had been planned for months. It wasn't simply a matter of scheduling and finding the right time. If that had been all there was to planning this night then the weather might have been considered, but instead it was only afterthought. This night required a different type of planning. My wif...