I waited patiently for the stewardess to fix my drink. I watched her hands delicately work a pair of tongs to pull at cubes from the ice-chest resting on the airline beverage cart. She then poured vodka and tonic over the ice cubes and swirled the drink in her hands. I knew it was a perfectly measured 50/50 ratio. She handed me the drink, leaning over the b...
Lauren was floating through the clouds. More like flying, gliding above it all. The sun was bright, warming her face as the wind gently caressed her cheeks. Spreading an array of soft kisses everywhere it touched. "Good morning, beautiful," the soft, deep whisper of her ex-husband was enough to pull her from the dream as she sat bolt upright in the bed. "S...
I've known a few people that have had some passing luck pursuing love in the way -- perhaps -- a cheetah stalks then runs down a gazelle, and I've enjoyed watching friends' mad dashes through the urban landscape in about the same way you might enjoy watching a National Geographic special on, say, the Big Cats of the Serengeti. You see the cat slipping throug...
Conchita Vega. We were making good time on our trip from the Labrador coast to Greenland. There was a good westerly behind us and we could make full sail. I slid down the steps into the cabin, stopping abruptly at the sight before me. Waya had his sister, Inola, tight in his arms kissing her. Her arms were around his neck; his hands clutched and kneaded...
As is usual for me, the places named and described are real, but the people are fictional. Milano is how the city of Milan is pronounced in Italy, and the Borsa Italiana is the only stock market in Italy. ***** One of the great things about morning is seeing my girlfriend, Katla Gunnarsdóttir, walking around our apartment naked. Katla was an aspiring model...
CHAPTER ONE "Fifteen minutes to docking." The launch five hours earlier had gone exactly as planned, still it had taken almost an hour for my heart rate to get down to normal. Through the front window of the capsule, I now could see the spaceship "Ulysses", where we would spend the next ten years. My eyes went to the three women I was traveling with. Comm...
Ben had tried to leave Bunol for three days leading up to La Tomatina before he heard that a massive volcano had erupted in Iceland, shutting down airports throughout the continent. He wondered if Violet had managed to make it as far as Madrid before discovering that she couldn't make it back to their flat in Williamsburg any faster than he could. Resigned...
Arriving at the house, Scott carried her inside before kissing her. She stopped the kiss by pushing him away. They were alone in the house so there was no need to pretend, Kate thought. Scott had let his staff have the week off so they could enjoy their honeymoon in peace as he had told everyone that bothered hearing. "So, where's my room?" Kate asked while...
Chapter 3 The next day she arrived at ten, just in time to greet the postman as he deposited, what appeared to be, two bills through the letter box. She knew the postman; he was a sidesman at the church, a friend of her fathers and the font of much of the local gossip. "Morning Jane. I see that Jack has received his call-up papers. Shouldn't be long before...
chapter five The various outcomes of the so-called Tet Offensive of January 1968 will be debated by historians for as long as students gather and talk about that pivotal year in America History. What had been an at-best tepid anti-war movement in America blossomed, after Tet, into the raging inferno of anti-establishment riots that shredded American society...