With thanks to Ava, for the kick in the butt to post and with sincerest apologies to MugsyB and Pennlady for dipping my big toe into their genre. I'll never do it as well as you guys! The first couple of chapters are character development, so please be patient with me! © 2009. * Loneliness on the dunes I'm pretty tough But the wind is rough On the dunes -...
Let me know what you like or don't like, people. I can't get better without comments. And naturally votes are always appreciated, too. * Justin Heityme knocked on his academic advisor's door, a resigned expression on his young face. Another older person was trying to manage his life, he presumed, just like all the others he had encountered in his short exi...
Ch. 02—The Babysitter Arrives Kay Andrews was not pleased with the behavior of her two daughters—Karen, 21; and Andrea, 18. When Karen, a popular blonde community-college student had mistreated her sister, Kay thought she could show Karen what happens to even older girls who need some correction by placing Andrea totally in charge of her older sister. Ala...
Bethany's Tales - Part 4 The bite of the cold steel hand cuffs into the flesh around her wrists jolted Bethany out of the near-stupor she had found herself. She was drunk, of that there was absolutely no doubt. She was also chilly, in fact, she was bloody well cold. She felt a shiver boil through her body when the door was opened into the parking lot at the...
There are two types of catholic school girls. The first is the type you see in videos who have "gone wild." They have boyfriends when they are young, experiment sexually, like to flirt and have lots of fun. The other type is the type who behaves themselves and follows the directions of their parents and teachers. This story is about the second type. I was al...
Author's note: Dreamers Come Play is an alternate universe. Stories set in it may incorporate touches of magical realism, blurred dreams, and other unexplained phenomena. All events depicted are by characters at least 18 years of age. The prep school is a one year program run by the college for students between high school and university. All students in i...
Summer had found its foothold. Stuffy coats and baggy sweaters were replaced by light t-shirts and shorts, skirts and blouses, unless one's culture demanded otherwise, such as the goths who huddled together in the school's shadow every lunch break to smoke, clad in leather or dense black coats. The popular cliques used it to show off the cutest designs money...
Chapter One -- The Beginning Valerie Swindon sat at her desk in her small study grading exam papers. A shadow fell over the opaque glass panel of the door and she looked up at the ornate mantle clock and realised it was time. She arose from her chair and came around to the front of her cluttered desk and unzipped her skirt. She caught it before it pooled...
A Few Days Ago Waking up, he felt his new love gripped tightly to him like a child gripping a teddy bear. "Morning, Daddy, you look well rested," Gale asked, smiling. "I slept well. I felt at peace. Thank you." "Why are you thanking me?" "For helping me come to my senses. I'm damned, and there is no use hiding from my past. I picked this location to hel...
The Rituals Chapter 1 -- Introductions He looked his age, but appeared to be fit. Tall, 6" 6' or so, with a full head of hair, somewhat longish, dark brown but with a touch of gray at the temples. He had a full mustache with handlebars, brown with streaks of gray. His shoulders were broad and his arms appeared to be strong, but that may just be the cut of...