After an incredible time with Jenny, and an interesting phone call with Priya, Cyrus spends the most hedonistic few days in Rotorua. He befriends a group of locals in a bar, and especially hits it off with Danielle and Katie, two stunning women in the group. After spending some time with the group, and several flirtatious hours with the girls, he indulges in...
Laura stood by the dormer window of their room in the ski lodge and watched as the group of cross-country skiers got themselves sorted out into some semblance of a straight line and headed off toward the horizon, where the sun was just making an appearance. There were about a dozen skiers, and the only way she could tell which one was her husband was by the...
Author's notes: 1. This is a work of fiction. The activities and practices described in this story are not necessarily either condoned or recommended. If you choose to do anything described in real life with real people you do so at your own risk. 2. All characters are fictional and any likeness to any living person is purely coincidental. The story is pur...
Author's Notes: Thank you all so much for coming back (or for continuing along, if you weren't reading this series before the Great Plague of 2020). I know that I haven't posted a new chapter in quite some time, but most of you have been very patient and supportive. My thanks to those of you who took the time to comment or send messages of encouragement. In...
I was bored. Miserably, horribly, completely bored. When the fall semester began the drunken frat party that was Halloween on my college campus was the furthest thing from my mind. I was 28, unmarried, and teaching was getting stale. I was involved with my church group; oddly enough our occasional missions to forsaken hellholes actually provided me with a...
Chapter 15 – Opening the Kimono Karen's face lit up the twenty-seven inch screen on the iMac in Alice and Julie's shared home office. The sisters were having their first serious communication together via FaceTime since the Thanksgiving holiday weekend when the 'Big Swap' had taken place with Alice and Julie going to Karen's in Ohio, and Candy joining Dave...
Bitten ————————Prologue———————— Averill left the tavern and slung her pack over her shoulder as she walked toward the livery a few streets away where she had quartered her horse. She was between jobs and while she still had enough coin left to live on fairly well if she was frugal, she had always preferred luxury to frugality. She rested a hand on the hilt...
1: All Hallows' Eve The historic Scottish town of Gallowgreen lay sleeping in the dark October night. A new day had started and a nearby church tolled the hours of midnight. The house lay far back from the road, as if hiding. It was protected from the gaze of others by a ring of ash trees crowding thickly around it's darkened walls. Casual passers by would...
Dear Readers, please note that there is a death in this chapter. It is necessary to set up a future chapter. Thank you Two4friends for editing this chapter. The Hoarding Uruku stood on the edge of the clearing. He could not yet see the three dots in the night sky that indicated trouble, but he felt their presence. They announced the coming of the Hoardin...
The bar in 54 West was packed two deep when Kim got there after leaving work on Friday. She spotted her husband, Rick talking to his best friend, Rob and another woman at the far end of the bar. This must be the enigmatic Alison that Rob had been seeing for the past month, she thought to herself. Kim did a quick appraisal as she approached the trio. The wom...