Chapter Four: We Sail Away And that's how The Lucille became Luscious Lucy. I liked the new name and made plans to have the old boat hauled out so the hull could be scraped and repainted with the new moniker scrawled across her stern. I was also learning all about boats from Deborah. Deborah was turning out to be a wealth of information and a dynamo when i...
Its two weeks since Jennifer and Major Johnson were at the ski resort. Jennifer contacted her instructors and got concessions on her exams. Since she had to report daily for duty at the Center, she could sit for the test with a member of her unit proctoring. She and a few other members finished their finals for the semester with the unit's Master Sargent gla...
Part 15 I woke from my dream with a start when Anna stepped on the brake and the car decelerated rapidly and came to a halt. Of course I had a raging boner in my pants. Momentarily I had no idea where I was, as if I had been catapulted out of one world and fallen sprawling into another alien one. I desperately longed to go back to the last one, with my two...
It was the last summer of peace. There was an eerie sense of normality as everyday life continued as though nothing was happening although no-one talked about tomorrow or the future for the time being. Silently we all recognized that the only thing we could be sure about was 'now'. Perhaps that is the key to this story. When I came down from Cambridge I too...
Note: This is something really different for me, inspired by a song that really touched my heart (if you've heard it, you'll probably know what it is). ----- The weak sun filtered through the bare trees as Jonah walked across the Millers' fields to get to Bethany's house. He listened to his feet crunching over the light snow, and wondered what Bethany's ne...
Raymond is an only child. His mother Rose and his father had separated when he was five years old so he did not have a father figure as a role model in his life. His mother idolised him when he was little. She loved his blonde hair and allowed it to grow long, onto his shoulders. She'd wanted a daughter, so to satisfy her own fantasies she would often put hi...
Desperation leads to disaster. It forces you to leave the safe cocoon you have built over the years and venture out into the wild. Desperation would even make you forget—if only for a short moment—that you shouldn't expose your ugliness to the world. Desperation might also make you forget the ugliness of the world itself. Millie Foster took one look at the...
James had spent the remainder of the week challenging himself about whether or not to take the job. Who was he kidding? He was more excited about this job, than if his former boss rang him up, offering him his old job, a £100k pay rise at half the hours! This had benefits way beyond the odd magnum over lunch on a Friday. Having gathered all this belongs, he...
(All characters are fictitious. No resemblance to anyone alive or dead is intended). Rubies are Red. Part 27. Paul I stood in the corridor and watched Heather's back as she walked back to the room the others were sleeping in. My grandfather stood looking out of the window at a fire that lit up the centre of the city. "Well?" He asked when the others had...
Just a little note, there is no one under 18 in this story. * She knew that he was going to be bored. She was a nurse in the Army and had to go where she was sent, and with the pandemic she was being sent to the other side of the country to help in one of the hardest hit communities along with 100 other medical personnel from her district. He had been l...