I had been working for a year straight. Our little California startup was blitz-scaling, trying to achieve a dominant position in a new business niche before the competition could get off the ground. At the same time we needed to become profitable before we ran out of seed money. We couldn't waste a minute. It was rewarding but exhausting. Every day was 12 h...
My old man mind can't remember where I'd heard it before, oh not the phrase itself everyone's heard that! I'd heard that it was a kind of writer's joke. That phrase, 'it was a dark and stormy night'. It's a juvenile way newbie writers used thousands of times to try and build tension or suspense at the first part of a book or story. Much like the rusty hinges...
Bus stop tale. Authors note. All characters are of legal age. * I know this sounds like the start of a bad joke from the 1970's but I met a girl at a bus stop. We chatted as we waited for the bus to arrive and sat next to each other on the bus. She was gorgeous, long red hair, pale skin, a stunning figure and within moments I had fallen head over he...
"All I can say Jack is that I won't wait for you. If you do it don't count on me being here when you come home." I sat across the table from Betty and made a life changing decision. "Your choice Betty. So be it" I said and then I got up from the table and walked away leaving her sitting at the table. Twenty-four hours later I signed the papers and two days...
Author's note: This week I wanted to do something that was just for fun. No heavy emotions, no deaths just a hoot. I know that in the real world there's no such thing as an OND. But wouldn't it be great if there was? # # # # # # # # # # # # I glanced around the room and saw nothing. It was too dark. Even though I couldn't see, I could still feel and the s...
Dear Reader, This story continues directly from the first one, albeit a few weeks into the future. If you haven't yet, I would recommend that you go through the first story. It's not necessary to do so to follow most of this one but gives more background to our primary characters, the nature of their relationship, and context to some of the dialogue and eve...
Standard disclaimer. "This story is entirely fiction, fiction, fiction! Characters in sex scenes are eighteen years old or older, as should be you the reader, if not please move on. All characters and occurrences are imaginary, any resemblance to persons living or dead is entirely coincidental. All references to; current events, locations, buildings or organ...
Hi folks, sorry there was no story last week and thanks to everyone Who wrote to find out why. The main reason was the power outages during the fourth of July week. I wrote large chunks of this story on my iPhone but still had no way to send it. Thanks as usual to mikothebaby for editing this one. I really appreciate how hard her job is after looking at a st...
Foreword: READ THIS FIRST! First, let me once again thank my lovely and talented wife (Black_Dragon_Princess) for her input on this tale. I love you, sweetheart! :) As the title indicates, this is the sequel to "Equalizer", over in the Loving Wives category. You can get to it from my Author's Page. This tale is tertiary to my "Knights & Rogues" univers...
This is a long one folks, but it's broken up into sections. As usual, all people and places are fictional. All characters are over eighteen. ***** "Are you Reaves Philip? Oh my gosh, I love your books!" A middle-aged woman with natural gray hair tickling her eyelids hustled after Reaves on the sidewalk. She was determined to get a word with him even thoug...