A small invisible creature with pointy ears, a long nose and very long fingers stalked the halls of the hospice where Mary Graham sat dying. She wasn't dying precisely at that moment. She was knitting a sweater for her son, but she had been given a diagnosis of terminal cancer from her doctor two months earlier. Now, she sat in a wheel chair in a sunny windo...
Thanks to my dear editor, LissaSue! *** The warm bed tried to hold her captive, it was really too comfortable to even think of getting out of. Turning on her other side, Ravenna tried to catch sleep again; it was to no avail, her bladder protested too much. Grumbling, she sat up, giving the room an unconscious quick sweep before she moved to the side of th...
Chapter eleven: The Shadow In the morning I went to find my father, to tell him that we'd set a date for the wedding. I went to his room but he wasn't there. As I came out of father's room I met Alexander, "Alexander have you seen my father?" "The last place I saw him was down in the training hall." "Thanks Alexander." I headed down to the trainin...
I hope you read it, I hope you like it, and I hope you think of me. Enjoy, little one! "You noticed that I had The Starry Night above the fireplace, right? Of course, it's not an original or a high-class reproduction. Just a print that an old friend of mine gave me as a gift - it's my favorite work, and she knew that." Alexander and Kate stepped off the el...
Alexander sat, swathed in bandages around his legs, right arm, and head, staring out the window pensively. Shirtless, wearing a pair of thin gym shorts, he was medium sized with hints of an Italian decent, flecked with little cuts still healing on his face and chest, he looked around morosely at what had become the known universe. To Alexander, the known u...
The fall day could not be more glorious. The sunshine and warmth the last vestige before slipping back into the gray. A weekend getaway in the City of Lights. The eventful overnight flight from the City That Never Sleeps chronicled in Belle Ch. 02. . . . The black Mercedes sedan reached the conclusion of its forty-five minute journey from Paris Charles de...
Julie sighed at the feeling of Mark's lips against the side of her neck. Her fingers lazily drifted through his short brown hair as he worked his way up to her ear. The anticipation was surpassed only by the satisfying pinch of his teeth on her earlobe. It drew another hum of approval from Julie. Her fingers tightened, gently pulling on Mark's hair, encourag...
Alexander struggled up from the dark floating surrender of sweet unconsciousness. Images flashed through his mind as he fought back the sirens call to simply continue floating in the comforting black nothingness. Stumbling down the embankment. The feeling of helplessness. Stones biting into his knees as he wrestled with the unyielding door. Finally pulli...
Marie sat on the perilously on the edge of the rooftop, her long legs dangled, slowly scissoring back and forth. Arching her back, letting her curly locks tickle her shoulders, she rubbed her swollen belly. It still amazed her that she had only been pregnant for less than a week, yet she was ready to deliver at any moment. Well almost any moment. Alexander h...
Eboni stood on the mountaintop looking out over the vast land. She took a deep breath and closed her eyes as she exhaled slowly. She opened her eyes and almost screamed when she saw her mother floating in front of her. "Mother is that really you?" She asked shakily after the initial shock wore off. "Yes Eboni it is me," she said as she floated closer and st...