LIX Sinners, Poor and Wretched Iris 2056 Although there was a sense that Iris had been lucky, it had to happen of course. For more than four years she'd managed to keep the same job at Omiota Biotech, but all it took was a business reorganisation by the company's new owners in Phnom Penh for her job to be made redundant. However much the rich Cambodian sh...
Chapter Twenty One Iris put her hands on the table and forced herself to meet his eyes squarely. "We met with your 'boys' only recently, Bill; and nothing came of it then." "No it didn't!" he snapped resentfully. "But that was not the fault of my boys; they would have been willing to take it further – if you had only met them half way." The colour came to...
Iris loved everything about fall, the cooler temperatures, returning to the neglected parts of her closet, and all pumpkin spice lattes. Everyone knew, so she'd been put in charge of her office's annual Halloween party. She really wanted to make it special this year. The office didn't need another buffet table covered in plastic clamshells of frosted pumpkin...
Chapter Five The double patio doors stood open to the night air, and their father held on to his human form as he watched his daughters transform into their wolf like shapes. It was not a painful shift for them - something that he was deeply thankful for. Often with humans or half humans, the breaking of bones and stretching of tendons was an agonising exp...
Iris and Gary Nancy had just returned home from work when her younger sister, Ann, called her cell phone. She answered and after an initial exchange of pleasantries, Ann cut to the chase. "Hey Sis, I was just wondering if you an Paul were up for a small get together this weekend at our house with Iris and her husband?" It took Nancy a second to remember t...
Chapter Fifteen Laurie's flat was a twenty minute walk away normally, but the two of them achieved it in less than ten. Iris pressed the button on the intercom and waited sickly to see if her sister was even there. The wait seemed to last forever, but just as she was about to give up and dig out her bundle of keys, there was a hollow sounding hum. "H...
Chapter Three The week rolled on, and at each lunch time, Iris left her desk at twelve o'clock and skipped off to her lunch - almost as though she was going to meet someone. James found himself wondering where she went off to, and who she met - because it was obvious to him that she was meeting someone. Had seen how her phone beeped at her, at bang on quar...
Jenna was standing in line to go through security at an airport. She was very excited; she was working through college and had finally saved up enough money for a trip home to see her family and boyfriend. It was a very long line, new security measures had backed the process up so much that there were people winding all the way back to the door. Jenna was no...
Authors note: It's a story that I have almost finished writing so hope to post on a regular basis if it is liked. Thank you for reading me x ***** Bonded and Bred Prologue It was more than two hundred years ago, when the first of their race had come to earth, not quite a hundred, dying people. They had been able to enter the earth's atmosphere without...
I was reluctant to post more of this story, since I have been made aware that not a lot of people seem to like it. I have decided to continue posting though for those who do, Thank you for reading me and for your votes, and thank you too for all of your feedback - both good and bad. ***** Chapter seventeen James sat in his office reading quickly through t...