Chapter 5 Ashes to Ashes Shane had only been home from school for a few minutes when the doorbell rang. When she opened the door she found an attractive woman in her late twenties with short blond hair standing there. "Yes?" Shane asked, trying to remember where she knew this woman from. The woman could see Shane was confused. "Hi, Shane. Looks like...
Chapter 6: Joining the Circle. Junie felt her whole body quivering with fatigue. It felt like it took all the rest of her energy to dry off. When she picked up her clothing she looked uncertainly at Bob. He touched her face, "Don't worry about getting dressed, Junie. Put your clothes away in your room and come on back out to the front room. I have something...
Another social engagement, this time it was to raise money for a new wing on the children's hospital. Alison thought it a worth while cause, but really it was more of an excuse to get her out of the house and boost her husband's social standing at the same time. Her husband of the past five years, Grant Harlow, was a good man, but he was far to absorbed in h...
1 FIRENZE Standing at the bar in the local café a small, slim woman, in her twenties, sips an espresso. Her expression is hidden behind serious-looking reading glasses. The woman, whose name is Gina, finishes her coffee and runs a hand nervously through her short, dark hair. Leaving the bar, she turns awkwardly, and the large bundle of papers she is hold...
Author's Note: This is a reupload of a piece I wrote a while back and took down so I could fix a couple things. If you've seen it before, thanks for coming by again. If this is new to you, I hope you enjoy it! Disclaimer: This piece is a romance between two women and plays mostly within the realms of normal possibility. It does, however, contain one char...
Tina pulled the skirt up her legs and secured it around her waist, tugging lightly till it settled neatly around her thighs, the hem settling just above her knees. It was unusually warm for October, and when it's warm she preferred the loose skirts that allowed her legs to breathe and any breeze, even that created by passing cars, to carry the heat away from...
"Elizabeth, are you okay?" "Huh? Oh...yeah, I'm fine. You were saying?" "I was saying that I need these forms filled out and turned in by this afternoon. I'm gonna need you to focus. Where ever your mind is or where ever you drifted off too, you need to come back to planet Earth. Do I make myself clear?" "Yes, Ms. Palmer...I understand." She eyed me a lit...
It was a lousy late October day. It was cold outside, grey clouds whipping across a rain-laden sky, the tops of the trees in the garden lashing against each other, shedding great dollops of leaves onto the sodden grass ...... Mike looked out of his front window, to the empty driveway next door. Gordon and June, his next-door neighbours, had gone off to spen...
Chapter One – A first encounter in the garden --------------------------------------------- It was a hot summer afternoon, and the sun was beating down on my back garden. I'd spent the morning doing some chores - cutting the lawn and planting some new trees that I'd bought. After lunch and a cold beer, I decided I'd lie out on the patio and top up my suntan...
6 Justine Justine's mom, Janet, was a nurse's aide at the Emergency room in Middleburg. Her father, Steve, was a personal banker at a small local credit union in town. The two met in high school, married young, and Justine was born, an only child, shortly thereafter. Her parents worked hard and never brought their jobs home. Justine was always the little...