I think I was five or six when the magic of Christmas began to be destroyed for me. Before that, it was all sitting on Santa's lap, parades, Christmas village at the mall. Small, penny candy canes were for the asking and there was always a tree. Never the greatest tree but we generally didn't have a Charlie Brown tree either, so yeah, it was a Merry Christma...
For Alexi's choice of activity, he took me to New York, a place I had only ever read about. Even with my brother attending NYU I had never even been through the Lincoln tunnel. But here I was, on the back of Alexi's motorcycle. My middle-aged, mafia connected boyfriend was not much of a sugar daddy, but he the first thing he wanted to do was buy me a new d...
(Note: If you haven't read the original Mistaken Identity I recommend doing so. See Author's Note at the bottom.) You sit on the unforgiving metal bench of the antiquated ex-military cargo plane. The repetitive shaking and jostling is killing your back and ass, and that incessant deafening droning of the big propeller engines has you believing your hearing w...
Chapter 1 Life has a strange way of surprising you. One day things are going along perfectly and then suddenly everything you thought you knew gets flipped upside down. How we react to these changes defines us as people. Do we cave in and surrender our happiness to the unforeseen circumstances, or do we embrace change and adapt to deal with the new opportun...
Previous Choice: Physically Interpose Deckard between the mercenary and Diana Deckard knew where altercations like this could lead. He had to protect Diana first and foremost... but perhaps the situation could still be salvaged. He stepped between the mercenary and the frightened waitress, obscuring the bald man's view of his intended target. "Fuck o...
Steve was sharpening his sword Excaliber; the sound of the fine whetstone gliding over it relaxed him. He could see the reflection of his eyes in the shining blade. They were no longer the innocent eyes, that he had before he had discovered the QT device. He had seen too many horrible things since then, and committed horrible things in return. His eyes wer...
As always: Thanks to rf-fast for the editing work. Your insights are what takes this story from mindless drivel to readable. Happy Reading! ***** Reputation: Reputation: an act or a series of acts that defines the perception of yourself in others. Now that is not Webster's definition but one of my own, as at the moment I do not have a dictionary in fr...
Chapter 1 Geneve had spent her entire childhood running with the others in her 'adopted family.' As an orphan child she had ended up in a small group of other orphans, some older and some younger. They all had looked out for each other, the only problem was that she was an orphan for a reason - her parents had been murdered because of their standing in the...
"Close your eyes, and count to three." Allynna did as she was told, taking a deep breath that filled her chest. She let out an uncharacteristically heavy exhale. "You good?" Mike asked. "I am acting as instructed, Captain." Came her quiet response. "That's not what I asked." He said, putting a hand on her shoulder. He felt her spine tense at the inti...
Conversation -- Conrad and Sammy Pardo After meeting in Jersey City, Sammy and Gentner came to an agreement, and Sammy put several things in motion. Within a month, Conrad was in Belgium being introduced to two Italians and a man from the Netherlands named, Klass Bruinsma. The Italians were only intermediaries; Bruinsma controlled a great chunk of Europe's...