I had known Alex Newberry my entire life. He was the boy down the street during my childhood, the boy behind me throughout school, and the boy who I always wished would see me as more than just "one of the boys." Especially since I was a girl. But I'd never pressed for anything more. I didn't want to ruin our friendship. We'd stayed in touch even after I l...
[This is my entry to the 2010 Halloween event, so please VOTE and vote BIG. ] * We arrived early at Steve and Laura's home at 1900, when it would normally still be light out. But the rolling thunder and heavy clouds darkened the skies. Thick bursts of eerie, twisted lightning briefly and repeatedly lit up the muggy night. Crashing, earsplitting thunder fol...
HALLOWEEN CONTEST 2018 Catwoman and Batman put on a show at a neighbours Halloween party. Mike: I will put this out there now. I hate Halloween. There I said it. My wife, however, bloody loves it. Every year we have to dress up, take the kids trick or treating, go to a party and then check our bank account to see how much money we've bloody spent. Every...
Ch. 11 song titles Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring (Bach) Prince of Denmark's March (Clarke) Wedding March (Mendelssohn) Heartbeat (Carrie Underwood) An Unforgettable Melody Ch. 11 Ashley's words of wisdom turned out to be some of the best advice Mike and Melody could have ever received. Though they made little progress in learning more about Melody's drea...
Duane's senses were starting to dull, the drive through the mountains thus far had been boring compared to what they had in the valley. They would make North Fork soon if they didn't run into any trouble, he thought, and he couldn't wait for that. Dogs may like to roll around in manure, he thought, but his human side found it tough to take the stench hour af...
I was seven months pregnant, my hubby Stan was on a business trip and I was wanting it so bad that the neighbor's Siberian husky was starting to look good. Fortunately I wasn't ready to go that route. Not yet anyway. At least not as long as Bobby was available. I picked up the phone, called him, and told him that I was in need his services and he told me he...
Macy said she bought the chair because the man at the secondhand shop had claimed it was haunted. Being superstitious and into the phenomenon of the unexplained, it was right up her alley. Plus, it was only ten dollars, and it would fit in with our annual Halloween parties. She'd throw a blanket over it the rest of the year...or something. But I knew it was...
Tessa gets tricked at a Halloween ball but it turns out to be an unforgettable treat. * This past Halloween I took advantage of a chance to attend a charity Halloween ball. I had to travel for business to a city in upstate New York for a few days, and my first day there I saw an advertisement for an annual Halloween costume ball taking place in the mansion...
By: Alex Clayton / Diesel Jester *** Author's notes: This story, and subsequent ones with this title, is based on a drawing concept series and character art done by RoxyRex. Characters and scenarios within this series are done with the permission of the artist. When I originally wrote this, I was going through a bit of a rough patch and needed to get m...
"It's really nice of you to do this, Trent," my twenty-two year old little brother said as we sat in the kitchen sipping morning blend amongst several moving boxes He smiled, a rarity, at least until a couple weeks ago. The coffee maker was the about the first thing unpacked, and we had already fired it up. "C'mon, we better go," I said, "not sure how the t...