Author's note: The Carter brothers' legend is a well-known piece of "fakelore" in the New Orleans French Quarter. Tour guides who tell a good story can get a larger tip by pointing out the home of the vampires who cheated death in Louisiana's electric chair and escaped from their family crypt in St. Louis Cemetery. I've been writing about the Carter brothers...
Funerals aren't so bad. I can zone out of the soft soothing words from the pulpit and grab an open eyed nap, with the heady scent of melted candle wax, wood polish, and that rich smoky incense at the Catholic shindigs, gently teasing my senses; as I try not to snore, or dribble. Being of no fixed religion I limit my visits to houses of worship strictly to wh...
Lying next to his lover, Karim Teshome, Said Mahdi felt restless. Inside their house on Avenue Des Epinettes, deep in the Orleans suburb of the City of Ottawa, Ontario, all was quiet. Outside the house, the rain fell in thick droplets, not unusual since it was early October. A few hours ago, the two young men had a happy reunion. Karim finally returned from...
Josie is on the bed, ready for fun. She's looking up at me, on my side, smiling her smile. Why she's on my side, I don't know. Is it my scent in the bedclothes, familiar to her after just a few months? I know her scent too, or should I say her scents? There are many. When it's Sunday morning, we're sleeping in, I spoon into her body. She nestles back again...
I would like to thank my editor and those who provided me valuable feedback! * * * * * The noise emanating from the Sea Maiden tavern was often the only thing heard throughout the warm, salty nighttime air of the docks. Gone were the bustling merchants and stone-faced city guards who populated the area during the day, retreating to the safety found within...
A sting on Isabelle's bottom woke her up with a yelp. She turned around to see Jean-Marie standing next to her bed, his arms folded across his chest. 'Good morning ms. Anderson.' he said. 'You wouldn't wake up when I called you.' The haze of sleep ebbed away and the sensation on her bottom told her what he had done to wake her up. No one had dared to spank...
The queens pregnancy was going as well as could be expected. The king doted on her "baby belly", the name she called her new tummy shape. He was amazed at the glow that appeared to shine from her as she grew closer to becoming a mommy. He accompanied her at every checkup the doctor performed. Figuratively and emotionally he walked with her through every chan...
Taran Moonspeaker sighed as he popped his latest audit into the tube. He'd never really understood how that worked, beyond "Air elementals" , but he had other things to worry about. Such as the stares up at him from his co-workers. Or the stack of audits left for today. Or the fact that his quill was running out of ink, which meant talking to the tight fiste...
Part the second, in which Sister Shelley is discovered. The basement stairs had never felt so empty to Sister May. She'd seen them, from time to time, watching over Sister Shelley's safety as the Mother Superior ordered, but had, also on the Mother's orders, never stepped inside. It still amazed her that the Mother Superior was no more than forty summers o...
Prologue "Pardon me, please. I'm looking for my sister. I called the police but they won't accept a missing person report on an adult until three days pass. I'm trying to see if she got into an accident or something and needs medical treatment. Can you help me?" Tom was looking for Gen, but she sure as hell wasn't his sister and he hadn't called the police...