The Soft Hammer Carley, Chapter 12 This story takes place in the universe of Carley and Jack some time after chapter 9 and was written as a stand-alone story. It starts the way a couple of others do, but goes in a different direction. I wrote this during the spring love bug season of 2015. Thor sat back and looked at the circuit board on the bench in...
He had parked on the edge of the deck, so as he trudged to his car he was able to see out into the night. It was a clear, crisp evening — there wasn't a single cloud in the sky, and a the ghostly silver of a crescent moon had risen up in the east to compliment the innumerable twinkling of stars that sprinkled the heavens. It was the kind of calm, beautiful...
The author would like to give special thanks to KillerRomance and teresawrites2u for proofreading and feedback. Callista was distraught. Her mind was too busy to allow her to fall asleep. She hated to see otherwise good days ruined by bad news, and today was such a day. She found out while visiting her mother that, beginning in two days, much of the forest...
****Author's Note - thanks again for all your votes and comments, for all who are waiting for Alex and Suzy's reunion I promise it WILL happen in Ch 5. If you are discovering this story for the first time, please have a look the preceding chapters as well to make more sense of the tale *** Alex returns to the University halls of residence on an adrenaline h...
The Mission is not Going Well "Log entry, stardate 2/11/2521, Captain Richard 'Dick' Coxwell. Following my primary mission I've moved the ship into a new sector known to harbor biomes suitable for human life. Last contact with sentient life suggested that odds for achieving the prime objective would be higher in this sector of the galaxy. The weight of my m...
The moment Brandi set her eyes on it she knew she had to have it. It was a strange golden bracelet, like a small metal-shelled armadillo, with a long flexible tail that wrapped around the wearer's forearm. "How much is this?" she asked the trinket shop owner with excitement. "That? Oh, dear you don't want that, believe me. As much as I'd like to get rid of...
The Fantastic Hotel on Curzon Street The spider in the top hat got out of the long black car, tapped the silver head of his cane on the vehicle's long black roof to signify to the driver, begone: return in the morning, be discrete. The spider stepped across the sidewalk to the hotel entrance with a four-footed side shoe shuffle, elegant black and white spat...
Authors Note: For those of you that have been reading "Lisa's Second Chance" this story is a prequel and takes place around 7 years before Lisa is recruited to the commune. We meet some of the main characters before they met Lisa. If you have not read "Lisa's Second Chance" then this story works well on its own and I hope you enjoy it. Kisses. Lisa XXX *...
Zachariah Baxter stood by the open window, not really feeling the coolness of the early autumn breeze as it drifted lazily up from the quad. His thoughts were troubled, and fully occupied with the dilemma in which he now found himself to notice the small inconvenience of a chill breeze. He knew that he should file the necessary report with the Dean's off...
Relief flooded over her when she realized that Dānoar was holding her hand and smiling down at her. They made it, they were alive. Then, confusion and a slight panic rose within her. Where the hell was she? He began to talk to her and that was when the sharp pains began to run through her head. Her free hand went to the left side her head where the pain sta...