By the time I get out to the Point it is still an hour until sunset. The sky is largely clear with the sun shining brightly on the lake. There are some clouds low down on the western horizon and there is likely a storm somewhere over in that direction because the waves that are striking the rocks twenty feet below me are nearly a foot and a half high. They c...
"Would you put some lotion on my back Honey?" she asked. "Sure Baby" he replied, putting his book down on the table next to his deck chair. He turned sideways and reached for the bottle of suntan lotion and squirted a little in the middle of her back. She was lying on her stomach wearing the first Bikini he had seen her wear in almost 30 years. "God your...
FOURTEEN "It's not that she didn't find me, it's the fact that she didn't really look! And why? Because she had someone else lined up to take my place. That Derek was installed before the trail was cold! Everything's gone swimmingly for her hasn't it? One man disappears another takes his place in her bed and in her life. You should have seen them, they're d...
"40 – 30." Even before she announced the score I knew I was down match point. I also knew she was going to hit her wicked lefty slice serve out wide again. I'd swung at it for two sets now, and even after seeing it so many times I still seemed to catch the ball on the end of my racket as it arced away from me. Every time. Though my backhand return had been...
"He's here!" Ruby Goddard stood wincing at the pain of her swollen ankles. Seeing the massive starship X'Orr looming directly over Eden scared her knowing the truth within. She knew the ship and its inhabitants could not enter without Gaea's blessing but the sight of it blocking out the sky still worried her. Even God, the old man beside her felt the differ...
I remember the day before my sixteenth birthday with great clarity. I had been shopping with friends in the city and made my way home on the train. I texted my parents' phones to tell them the train had arrived and there were no busses. The walk home was up a steep hill and took almost an hour. Usually one of them would drop everything and come and meet me p...
Satisfied With Love Ch. 17 by MDSW© Author's Notes: Keep the comments coming. I read each one. I do hope you enjoyed the novel. MDSW ******** As Brad continues on his jovial course, he receives a question he does not expect. Nobody on the Packard team expected this one. "Moving right along," Brad says, "in some cases, I'm smart enough to know better, b...
LAGOONA LANE Chapter Two: The Web They Weave On Monday evening, Joey Maple found his mother sitting at the kitchen table with her head in her hands and her eyes screwed shut. He came and stood beside her and put a comforting hand on her shoulder. "Are you all right, mum?" "Oh...Joey," said Mrs. Maple, sitting up quickly and looking slightly flustered. "Ye...
All the girls had warned Allison about Todd. Mark, in his gentle and diplomatic way, had done so too. And they'd been right. As Allison sat half-numbly in her favorite seat at the coffee shop, Todd was still talking. But Allison wasn't listening. She was remembering her friends' every word that she had so blithely ignored. You're in love with him for all...
* Previously on Vice Cop, Lexa O'Neil went undercover as a hooker in Atlantic City in hopes of catching a serial killer. Hudson Banach went to Atlantic City as well to enjoy a brief vacation and ran into an old girlfriend from high school, Sonya Romandini, who had become an escort/high class hooker. Hudson beat Lexa at a game of poker in the casino. Lexa was...