Loudon and Jeanelle Gaskin waved at their baby sister as she walked down the hall of the big law firm. "Make us proud, Breck, baby." Jeanelle called. The legal secretaries of their formerly white-trash family had been enriched by this amazing place... Juanda, Riva and Desna, Breckyn's great aunts were "document specialists" whatever that meant, and had rec...
As always, thanks to sdbnnc for all her hard work. I didn't bother to change when I woke up. Tony and I went for a run most mornings before breakfast, and there was something wonderfully free about bouncing out of bed and straight out the door without having to think about clothes or where I'd kicked my trainers off last night. I ran downstairs and outsi...
Brianna was feeling immensely pleased with herself. Within this auspicious setting, of the 2018 Grammy Awards Show, she sat at her table stroking the large gold trophy she had just won. Well, her act had won. Her stupid step-brother, Tom Caley: Best Male Act of 2018. But it was her efforts and risqué marketing that had propelled the young star to fame and ma...
Based on three actual ladies, whom with I have had many laughs, with their husbands along. All three magnificently blessed in the nicest possible way. ***** Recuperating at home after a traumatic event which had laid me sort of bed bound, which my wife Corinne and I loosely translated from hospital speak to mean bed rest. I was happily catching up on catc...
It was difficult to identify when things really started to snowball at the Lodge, but I remember thinking at one point that things couldn't possibly continue as they had been. After Maisie and Sophie brought in Emilia Clarke, there was a brief slowdown. Anya had been out of the country for some time, Maisie and Sophie couldn't get their schedules to align pr...
December 2019 "Let's go-oooo..." Anya Taylor-Joy told me in a sing-song voice as she leaned her head to the side. "What for?" I asked, only pausing long enough to say it. Then I went right back to kissing her along the neck. "Because the party has already started," Anya said while looking up at the ceiling, desperately trying to resist the urge to get bac...
[This story takes place in a prep school which prepares pupils for three years after high school for university, from ages 18-20. Previous chapters explored Miss Crawford's introduction to the strict disciplinary regimen as the first female teacher of the boys' school.] Linda Crawford now had completed her second full year as an English teacher at Hamilto...
The rising sun warms my skin as I slowly start to stir. The birds chirp and chitter, and the light reaches across the bedroom in long hot streaks. I look next to me. Shawn is fast asleep. I spoon behind him and wrap my arms around his chest. He murmurs gently. I nestle my face into his shoulder and kiss the curve of his neck. Our skin is clammy with dried s...
LUCKY JACK Being the misadventures of one of life's losers. Chapter Three: Jack in Clover WARNING TO NEW READERS- This is a rambling, VERY British episodic part work which was originally published as a series of short stories in the 1990s but has recently been modernized and brought into the 21st century. The main character, Lucky Jack, some readers may r...
This story follows the life of London Ambulance driver, Norma Walker, and Sergeant James Rogers of the Royal Engineers, through the Second World War and its aftermath. Norma and James meet the King and Queen, have their bravery recognized and meet each other's parents. Then transfers and training force them to part, so they are able to be together only occas...