Suffering in his loveless marriage to his wife of four months, a King is left scorned and lonesome. Desperate for companionship, he makes the decision to bed a whore, but she proves to be not at all what he had expected. ***** The marble balcony was warm to Ulric's touch, heated by the setting sun, and a gentle wind whisked the curled locks of his earthy...
Yes I'm ready to begin, Special Agent Strong. Oh, you're already recording. OK. To begin with, I've never believed in flying saucers. Not really. I've seen some of those "Encounter" TV programs and I just think they're silly. "The X-Files," with Mulder and Scully investigating weird shit, is more believable. Now, UFOs are different. That just means "UNIDE...
"Li Mei, I'll bring the trash down." Roger pulled the drawstring trash bag out of the Simple Humans trash container, a sleek, stainless steel, fingerprint-proofed, time-delayed lid closure extravagance of daily living. His tall, lanky body could have suggested a history as a vampire or heroin-thinned fading rock star. His bare feet in sandals reminded of a...
Sarah leaned forward and looked down into the foaming water. Just a little farther and she could topple so easily into the water, let it pull her under. Just... let go. Far below, the waves crashed so loud it was like constant thunder. Nobody to miss me. If I died out here, someone would eventually come looking, not because I mattered to them but because I...
Chapter 10 EPILOGUE Naomi stood on the veranda of her new home the Calderon Estate on Tocara, she looked over at Calderon Bay it was beautiful out there this time of day as the sun set in the west and made the sky an amazing glowing orange and pink. She was so tremendously happy now that she was Mrs. Douglas Harper. She and Douglas had eloped to Tahiti and...
The Bellfore-Cancun Hotel is an exclusive Mexico vacation destination. A beachfront property, it hosts vacationers from around the world. On this sunny June morning, Michael, the pool man, escorted two attractive women to the two empty chairs at poolside. Susan and Laura are starting a long weekend vacation. A well deserved four days away from their husban...
Homecoming ---- With their task completed, the party left the mausoleum of Casiama's ancestors and the forest behind. They traveled nearly fifty miles in two days, the pace of a party both experienced and fatigued of the road. Casiama had grown wary of Alanna since the night outside her ancestral tomb, and the two women now rarely conversed. Alanna had, t...
Hey all! Annabelle here with the second, sizzling installment of Iceman's Wrath. This chapter continues directly where my last chapter left off, I recommend reading that first. Believe it or not, I was actually too shy to finish writing this chapter at the time. Boy, times have changed! Since this is a direct continuation of last chapter, it is a little smal...
When Kathy asked Will to join her panel for the Urban Archeology Association conference in Chicago, it was really just an excuse to reconnect with an old friend from grad school. Even though they shared the same field, their careers had taken dramatically different paths since they finished their PhDs at Columbia. Will had wound up with a job at a small, but...
First Weekend I sat in my office, trying to find the ending. The film was stuck, like its protagonist, in a state of limbo. Either it was the ending that we shot—four months ago, almost—or it was something I'd need to create, in the edit suite, there on my computer. Using an extension cord borrowed from my roommate Jose. Something that had yet had to exist....