By the time the sun had risen a hand's span above the low hills, the convent was in sight, grey walls visible above the thick woods that covered the slopes below it. "Looks quiet," Webster commented, looking around. "Quiet before the storm," Gage countered, a prickle in the nerves along the back of his neck. "Look." He pointed through an archway, lower on...
Chapter 11 — The Happy Times May 1974 It was Friday and it had been almost a week since Hildy returned to Rochester for her Aunt Mildred's birthday.. Jim had just finished his last final exam and returned to his apartment. The days of Rich being his room mate were waning and Jim was thinking that the two of them might make a final tour of the bars that the...
sorry for the delay hope you enjoy this chapter again thanks to you the reader and my editor After hearing Matthew and Damien talking outside my bedroom door, I had a lot on my mind. That night I didn't sleep well. I kept mulling over and over in my mind this one question: "How could Matthew be my father?". It just didn't make any sense to me....
brie was happy to spend the time with Draven. Even if it meant after the festivities going back to how things were for a while longer. Surely they could get through four months. Their love was growing with each passing day. True brie could not serve Him as she hoped but there was plenty of time for that. The King stayed on a while after the wedding to make...
Note: Thank you all for patiently waiting for me. Real life interferes. Thanks to Donalde for beta reading for me and to all of you for reading this story. * Patricia waited nervously by the telephone. The rumor was that Dr. Coleman would be announcing who was going to be the next surgical resident that day. She was more nervous about it than Kenji was. I...
The BMW chirped as Jessica pushed a button on the key fob and locked it. Her high heels echoed through the garage as she walked past her father's other two cars, an Audi and a Mercedes, and entered the spacious house. She crossed the marble floors and wondered where everyone was; the house was unusually quiet. "Hello?" she called, as she made her way up th...
NB: This is a test-run to see if the story is well liked. I had this story idea after listening to Jay Chou's Qing Hua Qi [blue and white porcelain] as well as reading the manga 'Fruits Basket' by Natsuki Takaya. As I am not Japanese and this story setting is in a feudal era, I had to do quite a lot of research before writing the story down. As such, any mis...
Knowing Sembene as very stable and dedicated to her father's well-being, and more importantly, aware of the world of magic and its influence on people, she decides to risk the former. Something bad must have happened at her father's, probably involving Vanessa, this may be their chance. She opens the door, and sees Sembene recognize her, then pull a knife...
I hurry out of the high school and walk the four blocks to my father's twenty story office building. I have just turned eighteen and it has just been Dad and I since I was a little girl. Mom left and we never heard from her again. I am a senior at an all girl's Catholic school and Dad has been very strict about my association with boys. I am a very petite...
Jennifer Lynn Steele spun slowly around in her desk chair and stared out the window that overlooked the machine shop floor. Across the large steel building, massive machines hummed as they spun, milled and ground steel to amazing tolerances, some so tight they could only be seen and not felt with the fingers. It was this feat that amazed her, and of course w...