Sheldon after being intimate with Amy on her birthday reverted back to the same old obnoxious nerd he's always been. With Amy away at a conference, Sheldon was free to be entertained by the group and no one wanted him. He settled on spending time with Raj at the telescope room at the university. While there the two of them discovered an asteroid and after m...
Invalided from the army and away from the dry heat and horrors of Afghanistan, Dan Mason had looked forward to loving arms and a civilian life with some meaning. The first hope was quickly dashed when he found there were no loving arms to greet him at the army house he would soon have to relinquish. There was only an envelope on the kitchen table, and inside...
Chapter One: Adrianna You know those days when nothing goes right no matter how hard you try? I was having one of those days, I had woken up and found out that my shower was only running cold water, then I had found that I was out of coffee and when I had run out to my car it refused to start. Groaning and slamming my fist against the steering wheel, I chec...
My daughters friend Francesca is one of those lovely quiet women who underestimates her own beauty. She has been a loyal friend to Delia since the two met at university. Delia is twenty-three and the spitting image of her late mother, Nessy. Vanessa died to leukemia two years ago. One day she was feeling run down, the next she went to hospital to get some bl...
THURSDAY Once again, Layla woke to the gentle brightness filtering through the semisheer curtains of this bedroom. At some point in the early morning slumber, Layla had taken one of the many pillows on the bed and wrapped her arms around it lovingly. Layla looked at it and imagined Selena coaxing herself out of Layla's sleepy grip with this feathery facsimi...
Dear Readers, Welcome to my latest story. This is my first time submitting in the First Time genre, so I hope you enjoy this story. I wrote it as an exercise to practice the play of voice, style, themes, allusions, yada yada yada. So while I am always open to reading any bit of feedback you readers provide, I would very much appreciate any specific construc...
As I look into his leering, aged, wrinkled mirror of my own face He laughs, and sneers, and says "Of course, dear Son, Where do you think you came from in the first place?" -Harry Chapin, "The Mayor of Candor Lied" It was the Brockways who gave Bill his first sweet taste of Christmas, and it came not a moment too soon. He would not know their name until...
Author's Note: So here it is, nearly six months later. They've been six hellish months, let me tell you. I honestly couldn't write an ending for this story when my own felt so unfinished. And my ending is still nebulous, but at least in the fiction world I can create the resolution I desperately crave in my own life. So I hope you enjoy the end to Rachel's s...
It was a kind of crazy thing for a girl my age to say to a complete stranger. But I read this cool story on the Net and I couldn’t resist mailing the author… Julie says… “I love your stories. I live in Arizona and love to tease older guys. Your story is kind of like I did to our neighbor sometimes. I love it when you talk about us girls being real young. Y...
This is the fifth Convertible story. The first two, “The Convertible” and its sequel “The Convertible – Another Road” are closely connected and should be read together, but from the third story onward, the Convertible stories are standalones, the charmed 1955 TR2 being the sole thread tying them together. (A couple of early characters put in a cameo appear...