To all, My apologies to all for the tardy submission of Chapter 9. My muse and inspiration for writing this series has taken a hiatus, due to plague, family, work, and home repair. Her editing skills are sorely missed. Alas, my personal motivation evaporated, so it was time to pull up the big boy shorts.. As in all things with life, one muddles through, an...
"Shit! I'm going to be late... I can't believe I left the directions at home!" I spat out at myself in frustration. I'd been driving around this area for about 30 minutes now. I should have been there by now - her instructions were VERY specific in her email. I could have driven home, got the directions, and been there by now, I thought to myself. "You moro...
I was lost in my doubts and self-recriminations when I got home. My parents, Mom especially before she died, had raised me to be considerate and kind. I had blown that all to shit this morning. I wondered if Allison was going to report what happened to the police. Maybe she already had and the next knock on the door would be officers here to arrest me. My da...
AUTHORS NOTE: Just a heads up that this chapter contains a bi-sex/gay sex encounter. Summer was coming to a close so Tom and I spent another weekend in Capri. We brought two of the working girls with us Pia and Petula. We stayed at the same hotel and the girls registered in one room and Tom and I in the other. Of course at night Tom went to be with Petul...
Nothing goes as planned Everything will break People say goodbye In their own special way All that you rely on And all that you can fake Will leave you in the morning But find you in the day Oh, you're in my veins And I cannot get you out Oh, you're all I taste At night inside of my mouth Oh, you run away 'Cause I am not what you found Oh, you're in my vein...
Chapter One Hundred Fifty-Five: Post-Awakening Solona and I got some strange, concerned looks from Avanna as we left my office, but I ignored them. I asked Avanna to accompany Solona to her new quarters after they dropped me off at mine, and she agreed politely enough. Two guards who I vaguely recognised stood attentively outside my suite, and I shut the d...
Chapter One Hundred Eighty: Yo Ho Ho "So what will you do now?" We were sitting around a table in a quiet, private dining room that we'd rented for the evening at a nearby inn, since ours didn't have anywhere private the seven of us could sit. Aedan, Zevran, and Larus had bathed and taken naps -- I imagined Larus got less sleep than the others, what with...
I had been looking forward to this trip for some time. It was a contest, and only later I discovered the true purpose and origin of the trip. I had won it at the college I attended in Northwest Missouri. It would take me to Kansas City, to St. Louis, and the final destination in Chicago. Roundtrip. By train. With a one day layover in each of the three cities...
Rhonda was outside talking to Janus when Jenni arrived back at the office. Jenni noticed they were very near the same corner of the building where Colette had indicated she'd pulled Janus around and had her way with him. She wished she hadn't told Rhonda that story, and uneasily she saw Rhonda look at her wickedly, or so she thought. "The courier's been and...
The wheels of the landing gear made an audible screech as they touched down on the runway at La Isabela; it was a sound that was as commonplace as the dull pinging of the buttons that passengers pressed to summon the attention of the harassed cabin crew and nothing to spare even a moment of thought over. But to know that for a fact would require a person to...