Jade awoke to the sound of a ringing phone. Stretching, she realized that the girls were no longer with her. Her eyes opened slowly and she saw Sera in the kitchen, her hand on the receiver as she answered the phone. She smiled at Jade as she murmured an assent into the phone and hung up. “That was Di. She went out this morning for supplies, and she wants us...
Jenny Lynch's marriage was in trouble. She suspected that her husband James was having an affair. He made her feel fat and ugly but she was neither. After ten years of marriage and two children she was in remarkably good shape. She was proud that was back to the weight she was before children. She was tall and lean. She jogged and did Pilates. She had just...
The pavement is wet. The early morning rain cannot wash the sins of a city away; especially the sins that resulted in the murder of Jamie West. Jim stood over the body of his former college lover. For the first time in this whole ordeal he felt sick to his stomach. "Her neck is broken," the ME reported, "but that's not how she died. " "Look here," she cont...
My name is Feorinda, but my frends call me Fay. I am a blonde third year university student working on my double bachelor in Social Work and Women's Studies. I had a minor in Asian Art, as that was my guilty pleasure and the bulk of my non-core electives were spent in that field, and to get money to augment my scholarships I began working at Ching Wu's Galle...
I walked into my room and instantly heard Jade's southern drawl. "Fucking hell, it's so cold in here!" I chuckled and dropped my backpack on my desk. "Yeah, babe. You're in the East coast, not the West coast anymore. The winter is surprisingly wintery here." Her coming from the hot California, I teased her about getting used to the East weather of Pennsy...
I was honored when Randi asked me to participate in this. The theme isn't one of my stronger topics and I suggested to Randi that it may be best I step away. She threatened to come find me if I did, so I took the cowards way out and wrote this to stop her from being angry with me. My two closest friends did find one hole in the storyline and I'm hoping they...
Jade walked away in triumph, her stomach fluttering with butterflies. Darren paced in awe behind her, himself also quivering with excitement. She turned and smiled at him, and he returned her joy. It was a match made in heaven. The long walk ended in her bedroom which was at the end of a long hallway off the living room. She stopped him just inside the doo...
The girls looked at him attentively and waited for him to continue. You could have heard a pin drop in the room, as they all leaned forward to hear John lay out his plan to take down the Armoured Cobras. "We're going to form three teams," John said decisively. "I'll lead Team One, taking Dana and Rachel with me on a ground insertion into the base. We'll res...
Copyright @ calibeachgirl All rights reserved, 2012 Thanks to estragon for editing my story. Thanks to you for reading. sophia The next day, the little door-bell gave a soft tinkle as the three young Asians entered the market. One immediately closed and locked the door, putting the 'CLOSED' sign up; one went to the back of the small store and the third...
In my job as a taxi driver I meet some interesting people. On a recent job I met three of the most interesting people I've ever met. I'd been booked one Friday evening to collect three passengers from a bar in London's west end and take them home out in east London. I fought my way through London's traffic, arrived right on time outside the bar, and just as...