No characters in the story below are under the age of 18. This is my first story so please bear with any punctuation mistakes and what not i may have made. I hope you all enjoy it. ***** "That's enough!" the king screamed. His fist slamming into the arm of his throne so loud you'd swear the whole kingdom could hear. In most kingdoms, it was considered a...
My Mazda RX-7 was a weekend project while I worked on the car lot, a fixed wreck that's now indomitable, painted black, a vehicle for my plans. One, learn a trade. Done. Two, get a car. Done. Three, leave. Done. Four, find Donovan. Inconsequential. Plan four killed me. I drove around the country pursuing it. Took the money I had leftover from the...
Chapter 5: The Shark At the convent where J.R. first met Julia, after he left for college, things changed for Sister Julia. Mother Hicks passed away and a new Mother Superior took over. She was not friendly at all. Mother Superior Lockwood was an old battle axe who acted more like a Marine Corp drill sergeant than Nun. Her tyrannical way of running the conv...
Chapter 2: A new beginning Two weeks have passed and Amy is finally feeling a little less anxious around the house, and around Mike. Since moving in, Amy has felt uncomfortable about her and Rob staying with Mike for free. Rob doesn't seem worried about the future at all. This is clear to Amy as she looks over at him. Rob is watching TV, completely lost i...
She was trying her hardest to be positive. But the idea of a school-arranged bonfire seemed a little strange. Kelly knelt in the sand and carefully shook the granules from her sandals, placing them in the tote she had brought along with her. She felt as awkward as she probably looked. She had seen the poster above the water fountain outside of her ceramic...
The rest of the week in New Orleans had been quiet compared to that first night. But what a night it had been. Bill and Brandi had enjoyed re-living it when they made love. Brandi was more relaxed and even seemed more open sexually. They hadn't incorporated anything new together since that night, but she had gone to the store one day and bought a couple of n...
The Ancient One looked at the sky, and it was a dull shade of dark gray, as it had been for the four hundred and seventeen years since the Apocalypse. Man unleashed nuclear winter upon the planet Earth, effectively decimating much of the world's flora and fauna. One of the species to survive this mess is of course Humanity, and the other is the Race of the V...
Author's note: This is, in all its seven parts and their many chapters, one very, very long story. If long stories bother you, I suggest you read something else. No part of this story is written so as to stand on its own. I strongly suggest that you start with the beginning of Part 1 and read sequentially—giving up at any point you choose, of course....
How do you explain to your fiancé that there are dark secrets-- even ghosts-- in your family history. And that some of those ghosts are not fully relegated to the past. This is a sad, sweet, tale which echoes a time that many would like to forget ever happened in this country. But it did, and the ghosts of that time live on in many families in many differen...
I'm a proud nineteen year old Japanese young woman, born and raised in Tokyo, but I never really felt that I truly belonged there. My wild and free American soul has always felt constrained by Japanese customs. That's why I moved to the United States. Yes, I'm a typical petite long haired Japanese woman raised by traditional parents, but according to my moth...