Es ist schon spät am Abend, als ich an meinem PC sitze und auf eBay nach neuen LEGO-Sets für meine Sammlung suche. Meine Augen sind schon fast am Zufallen, sodass ich beschließe, bald ins Bett zu gehen. Doch gerade, als ich den Computer herunterfahren will, sehe ich eine Anzeige, die sofort mein Interesse weckt. „Oh, mega! Das Set suche ich schon ewig. Gleic...
It opened about a week ago, quietly and with little fanfare, and with the most innocuous name "The Toy Shop", but it was a huge hit with most of the women with children in town. They made you sign a like 12 page NDA before you were even allowed in the doors, but what the people who had gone said that they WERE allowed to tell people was that the f...
Hello there, Sorry this has taken a while I have been laid up with tonsilitis and writers block - not the best combination. Am glad you all hate Roni with such ferocity, she is a bitch isn't she!. Once again, thanks very much for your comments and please continue to do so - it's such a great way for me to learn. Thanks very much again and I hope you enjoy th...
CHAPTER 25: IVAN'S FUCKING LEGO I stepped back off the bottom rung of the ladder squarely onto a piece of Ivan's Lego, one of the sharp corners embedding itself in my foot. I'd mentioned it to Eve a dozen times and she'd just laughed at me. Her living room floor was a virtual minefield of devilishly sharp pieces of plastic. Trees, windows, doors, bits of st...
It was New Year's Day in southern California. 80° and not a cloud in the sky. Anna and her husband were coming over with their kids. Allen and Michael would head out for a round of golf, my nanny would take all of the kids to Lego Land, and Anna and I would sit out by the pool sharing gossip. This time there was a lot to share. Our friend Kelly had a miscar...
CHAPTER 43: IVAN'S NEW AUNTIE We drove back to Berwick Upon Tweed in silence. Eve seething beside me, muttering under her breath in Czechoslovakian - probably cursing Quigley and debating with herself what she'd like to do to him, me trying not to grip the steering wheel too hard with swollen fingers that I suspected were badly bruised if not broken, and He...
CHAPTER 27: EVE'S COUNCIL OF WAR Between us, myself and Sorrel had worked out where we'd seen carrot top before. We'd had extra electrical sockets installed in the spare room when we'd first moved in to accommodate my scanner, lightbox, computer, Wacom tablet etcetera without having to overload the existing sockets with adaptors. Carrot top - real name Mark...
Author's note: Thank you for all of the kind words from chapter one. There will probably be one more chapter after this, but there's also some other stories percolating, so the final chapter might be a while. * I woke up completely disoriented. Strange bed, strange sounds. I've always been a heavy sleeper, working a rotating shift of days and nights for ne...
Author's Note: Due a medical condition, I rely on a talk to text program that isn't always accurate to dictate much of my work. If you like my work, please consider volunteering as an editor to help me produce more stories faster. Special thanks to goducks111 for editing this piece and to my friend Danielle, the muse of the story. This is a contest piece...
Friday Submerged beneath the water, I heard screaming. I planted my feet on the floor of the pool and stood. "Sandy?" A woman called out. The sun's rays warmed my upper body as I felt water repel down my torso. I pulled my goggles off and squinted in the sunlight. Near the swinging gate to my, well, my parent's, technically, near their gate I could make o...