Disclaimer all parties are age of consent. This is a work of fiction. Part 1- Promising starts Nothing came easier to Marcus than getting a new client. Since 2009, he had managed to take advantage of the housing bubble burst and carved out a moderately successful financial firm. The last year had its ups and downs, but Marcus couldn't complain, there were...
What better time of year to give the gift of a great film than at Christmas? For most of us in the northern hemisphere, Christmas also signals the beginning of winter and long cold nights stuck home beside the fireplace watching movies. So help them out! Star Wars Trilogy: THX (1995) by George Lucas Yes, yes, yes, I know everyone has a copy of the original...
This is my Christmas Gift to all my fellow editors :) In my time as an editor I’ve received stories from people of several continents, male and female. The stories have all been varied and of different lengths (who says size doesn’t matter!!!!!!!), some good, some bad, some totally awful and some absolutely awesome! When I first sat down to do this, all...
For two years, John Doe had been working for Blue Diamond Escorts, unquestionably the most prestigious and exclusive such agency on the planet. Blue Diamond was for the cream of the crop: the richest, most powerful, most famous people in the world. Movie stars, senators, foreign dignataries, captains of industry, these were the clientele that Blue Diamond se...
I was always glad that we had bought a house with a swimming pool. No matter how good the air conditioning felt, nothing compared to being able to drift in the pool on a hot Summer day. As our children got older, and we didn't have to be on "guard duty" all the time to make sure they didn't fall in, it became a great hangout for the kids and their friends. I...
In January of 2006, a who's who of young starlets began disappearing. It started out with Jessica Biel, who had ducked into the bathroom at the opening of a small boutique in L.A. She never re-emerged. Three days later, an unofficial taskforce consisting of the F.B.I., the L.A.P.D. and the seemingly omnipresent paparazzi could find neither hide nor hair of h...
After talking to the kids the night after I'd received the DVDs, Jocelyn asked to speak with me. She wanted to meet, face-to-face, to present her case for staying married. I acquiesced asking her to come by the house the next evening at 7:30PM, telling her the kids and I would be ready for her visit. "The children will be there?" She asked with a somewhat s...
"Honey, I'm home." My heart stopped. I had not expected Gina for another hour, and I hadn't finished my list of chores. The biting sarcasm of Gina's cheery sitcom greeting sunk in and my heart jump-started with an explosion of shame. I looked up from the kitchen sink. Gina stood motionless at the entry door in her ankle length fur, hand on hip, glaring, ask...
Tricia and Terry were reclining on the couch, enjoying conversation and just catching up with each other. Their sex-life had been less than stellar lately, mostly due to Terry's work-based stresses. They were well through a bottle of wine and eventually the topic of their sex-life surfaced. "So Terryblossom (Terry's nickname from Tricia) how come you aren't...
New York "ANGELA!" SPENCER SAYS ANSWERING THE KNOCK to his hotel door to reveal Angela holding a large white bag and two coffee cups. "You're a bit earlier than I was expecting." She smiles as she invites herself into the room. "I figured you could use a little breakfast." He closes the door and turns to find Angela already setting out the contents of the...