*Part 11 of an ongoing story... True to her word, Carrie had made Saturday nights into "Endurance Night." We'd sit down in the living room with a bottle of wine and as we did so, we'd start the clock. And we'd see how long I could last. As promised, she tried to help. She'd tell me to stop if she thought I should stop. She'd say hands off if she thought it...
“My name’s Mark Harris. I’m here about the apartment,” you speak into the intercom. The front door to the low-rise apartment building buzzes and unlocks for you. You take the elevator up to the second floor and you walk down the hall glancing at the numbers beside the doors. 202 You sincerely hope the apartment isn't a rat-hole. Not that it would make much d...
Aster yawned widely, stretching from her resting place in a blooming flower. She grinned and extended her wings to catch the morning sun. Spring was finally here! It was always such a pain to give the glade over to those winter tramps every year, they always left behind a complete mess. Fingers crossed for global warming, Aster leapt from her sleeping place...
It's been hours. Days, perhaps. You've spent so much time in this damnable French woodland that you can barely even remember your own name. How did you get there in the first place? You try to think, but you feel so tried that your mind feels foggy and your memory muddled and faint. Did you get lost during a tourist trip? Did you just accidentally stumble ac...
You've been invited to your first Halloween party! How exciting! Normally you never do this sort of thing, but as an attempt at forcing yourself to be more social, you accepted the invitation and are finding yourself thrilled at the prospect of shedding the remnants of your anti-social cocoon and finally going to a party! A young debutante at the eve of her...
During the making of ‘Middlemarch’ Jane Pearce, the commissioning editor of the BBC, called me to talk about an exciting opportunity. “How do you feel about filming in Italy?” “Great, I love working there.” “Well I’ve had a rather interesting offer from RAI who have just shown ‘Pride and Prejudice’ and really liked the bawdy nature of the tale you told and s...
The sound of the massive chain link fence closing behind you as you drag the chains shackled to your ankles along the concrete path makes the reality of your situation more lucid. You didn't know what to expect here but your life as an orphan living on the streets prepared you, at least somewhat. You know not to cry, and most of all, to never, ever snitch, o...
Seeing how enamoured Lady Sally was with the Camorra, Captain Wyndham held back from expressing his concerns regarding an organisation with a reputation for ruthlessness and violence that surpassed even the Mafia. His immediate problem was loading the massive statue onto the airship. It was too tall to stand upright anywhere in the gondola. Luckily, the ai...
Hey, there. My name is Gary Celestin. How's it going? I'm a Half-Breed. The offspring of a nonhuman intelligent entity and a human person. My mother Illyriel was a fallen angel turned arch-demon and my father James Celestin was human. They're both gone now. There is a world out there which most people don't ever get to see. Demons. Fallen Angels. Monsters. V...
The day after Labor Day was the start of classes at the University of Michigan, and marked the beginning of Diana's junior year at the School of Nursing. She also arranged for Astrid to grab an Uber ride to bring Laura to the medical clinic for paternity testing at 3:30 PM that day. Robert Morley also arrived at that time as arranged via mutual text messagin...