Per a fan's request: "The data on this next slide compares the 'conservative forecast', shown in yellow, generated by our proposed business model versus a flat, 'worst-case', industry growth curve as shown in black. The purple indicates our anticipated growth with the impact of the Asian markets factored in. You've seen the preliminary data from the Europea...
I was hiking in a remote area of northern Arizona when I heard the unmistakable sounds of passion coming from behind a very large boulder. I stealthily worked my way through a thicket and saw an open area, the size of a large bedroom, concealed on three sides by heavy plant growth and the large boulder on the fourth side. There was a large blanket spread o...
Ch. 02 The weird just gets weirder... Author's note: This is Part 2 of a 3-part story arc, and a light look at alien botanicals rather than the usual Nonhuman Vamps, Weres and mythical creatures. It is a continuation of Part 1, which you should read first or most of this won't make sense. It isn't intended to make the "Reality Check" some readers find cruc...
Diana's Journal – Entry 1 This is exceptionally late into the experiment. I honestly can't believe I didn't consider this before, though it's not all that surprising; I've been known to neglect things like this in the past. Allie says that it always makes her laugh, since I'm one of the more exceptional students in the university. I'd be lying if I said I d...
Author's Note: So, I wrote this while sick. Coughing, sore throat, runny nose, the WORKS! So, it's a bit shorter than previous chapters and future chapters. For this, I am sorry. But if you feel any up-swelling of ire for this, know, I am being punished even as you think it with my sickness. Bleh. The Tale of Resh Craig June 4th, 1876 Somewhere on the...
The silence during the drive was consuming the attention of the couple in the vehicle. Ray Thompson gazed ahead lost in his private thoughts. Surreptitiously he would allow an occasional peripheral view at his wife, Marilyn. She was concentrating on looking out the passenger side window at whatever caught her interest. Whenever she thought it was safe she wo...
You will appreciate this Chapter more if you read the earlier chapters first. If you're new to The Extended Family series, you are invited to read the entire series. Oh, and please vote. I love your e-mails and I'll respond to most of them. Thanks for reading. ***** Jeremy had found a photo shop that would rent him a light kit that consisted of three photo...
Author's note: the following story is purely a work of fiction and any resemblance to real people or events is purely coincidental. The author wishes to express his gratitude to Copperbutterfly for her editing to make this a better story. * I had been working 12 hour days six days a week for 13 weeks so when the boss said that the project was in good enoug...
Chapter 8- Answers 25th January, 2013 1:36 p.m. Clearing around the Scared Tree "You good?" Vaishnavi asked Swati, holding her out at arm's length. "Yeah," Swati replied softly, the tension leeching out of her body, "I'm good." "What about you?" Vaishnavi asked, turning to me, "Are you okay?" "Yes," I replied, my voice shaky, "are you sure she...
"It's totaled," the balding man said from behind the counter. She stared out behind him through the long glass windows at her demolished car. The end of the driver's side door was indistinguishable from the beginning of the back door. The trunk was popped open, indefinitely she'd been told. The other side still looked perfectly normal. She couldn't see it f...