"Oh what a tangled web..."-Sir Walter Scott Well, it happened. I said it never could but, fuck me, was I ever wrong. I lay on the bed staring at the ceiling rubbing my eyes trying not to disturb the woman next to me. Hell, I didn't even know her name. Shit, for that matter...I didn't know where I was or how I got here. All I could remember was me and my bu...
Chapter One It was the summer of 1965. I had just finished my second year of the doctoral program at a major midwestern university, while my wife Cathy had graduated from the same university, and was preparing to begin graduate school in the fall. We had been married for about eight months. Money was tight, so it really helped out a lot that we both were ab...
Lieutenant Adkins lay on his side on the bunk, idly looking out the porthole and resting his aching muscles. The Martian landscape stretched away on all sides, a cold barren desert of red sand, red rocks, red mountain, red sky. The sheets of his bunk were still damp with the sweat and residue of Lieutenant Brandon. Or maybe Sergeant Minnelli before her. Or p...
Amber looked out her bedroom window and saw the big orange moving truck along with movement next door. The house had been empty for almost a year and finally a family was moving in. Amber didn't normally care about what was happening in the neighborhood, but her mother was driving her crazy with all the talk about why the house had remained empty for so long...
(c) Sadie Rose Bermingham & Bellora Quinn 2010 CHAPTER NINE – THE DARKEST HOUR At long last, here is chapter nine. Apologies for the hiatus but too often the real world interferes in my writing schedule and I don't get any work done for ages. As a reward for your infinite patience we'll post a couple of chapters very close together. This one ties up the l...
Laura awoke at 6:15 a.m. to the sound of Joe Wagner humming in the shower. She smiled and giggled as she stretched her arms above her head and let her naked body fidget beneath the blanket. When had she fallen asleep? She could not remember. She could, however, remember Joe ramming her hard, harder than she had been fucked in a long time. Again, Laura giggle...
"Shhh. It's O.K Jane. Please understand it's going to be fine." Amber was comforting her best friend as they sat on last step of the north wing stairs. Jane had just found out her boyfriend was cheating on her and had burst into tears in English class. She had stormed out and Amber had followed her. She knew that cranky Mr. Johnston would get mad, but she di...
Kat woke up on Saturday, with nothing to do. Riley was spending the night at a friend's house, so she didn't have anyone to do something with. Kat, however, didn't want to spend the whole day moping around at home. She decided to go to the local mall, a trip she hadn't yet made. She had wanted some new clothes, and might as well check out shoes while she wa...
Kat sat in the chair behind her desk and looked at her students. They were working hard but the heat was distracting. It was probably slightly over 100 degrees and it was only 11 in the morning. The weather would be sure to escalate a little more before school was over. Kat's water bottle that typically held its place in her drawer was bone dry and she barel...
This is module one, chapter four. This is going to be a novella of sorts. The intent is to have 4 modules total covering different times in our main characters life. While it is feasible to read any of these independently, this is a carryover story, so reading them in order is beneficial. Module one, our main character, Katherine "Kat", is a senior in high...