Chapter 16: Charles I answered the knock on my door and found a very pretty strawberry blonde there. "Are you Charles?" she asked. "Yes. What can I do for you?" "You can come with me. There is something very important I want you to see." I studied her face and saw anxiety, perhaps some anguish, desperation. Her hands were wringing each other incessantly...
by Phillip Johnson Chapter Twenty Five When Buck and Anita arrived, they shared their usual quick embrace and a glancing kiss on the cheek before Laura said, "You know I think you even look more relaxed." "I feel relaxed and yet energized." "And you Mitch, how did you survive Layla's shopping?" "I actually got into it and had a great time. I like to t...
Two years after the discovery of Gliese 948c, the lab-frigate "Darwin 9" rested on the surface of the large, green planet. It was an old craft with a crew of only 52 scientists and 7 well-armed scouts. With so many new planets to explore, the Alliance couldn't spend a lot resources on a planet so far away, regardless of the fact that it had an impressive res...
Author's note: Hi folks, this one is a bit darker and those of you who really like happy endings might want to skip it. As usual, if you don't like it. There will ne something different next week. I hope you all enjoyed your Thanksgiving. And as usual I really need to give Kudos to mikothebaby for not only editing this story but for suggesting something dark...
"Rob, do you have a problem?" He glanced at her and then back at the road. "Don't worry about it," he said shifting uncomfortably in his seat. Erin glanced over her shoulder at the two sleeping boys in the back seat making certain they were still out. "I can help you with that," she offered in a husky voice as she slid across the space between them. Leanin...
I was bereft. Meg, my wife of 24 years, had died of cancer. At age 45, I found myself a widower. For weeks after the funeral I would come home from work and rattle around inside the big empty house and cry and feel sorry for myself. The kids would call once or twice a week, but they were grown and moved away and had their own lives. Their occasional calls st...
1. November 10, 2003 Kim opened the door of her bedroom hesitantly, and looked around. She sighed. Arnie was out doing the Leukemia run-a-thon, and Becki Lynn was visiting her folks in Maryland today. How did Kim know this? No one spoke directly to her in a conversational tone. And Denny, thank God, was at a Sci-Fi convention. Kim stepped into the hall, a...
This is a story of an alternate reality where there is a branch of Christianity that has rejected the dogma normally associated with sex. Posted 27 Dec 07 -- Revised June 09 Chapter 5: To Protect & Empower The very same morning that Marcia first woke up in the room she shared with Laura, Christopher Carlson found himself sitting across an imposing desk fr...
There is no sex in this chapter. Chapter 12 Note: All persons in this novel are fictitious. If you are looking for a great deal of explicit sexual activity, this story is not for you. The scenes that are included will be evocative rather than just for the sake of sex itself. This story is for your reading pleasure. Its length is undetermined at this time...
Chapter 6 - Virginia About one a.m., Dave looked around the bed and chuckled to himself. He had wiped out three women, leaving them speechless and in a state that Dave had heard of as 'rode hard and put away wet'. The term had been corrupted from equestrian usage, and these days referred to the totally disheveled and exhausted appearance of the three women...