As Ria sat in the corner of the coffee sipping on her low-fat mocha, her eyes glanced around the room. She watched as the men and woman would buy they're beverage or pastry, and she wrote stories of them in her head. The young woman in the middle of the room had dreams of being an actress. The man reading the sports magazine always wished to play professiona...
The woman was old and bent and gray, long in her days and hard-set in her ways. As constant in her course as the river which rolls past her place. Those whom she'd loved, (and some who'd loved her, she supposed) had long gone away, moved on or, mostly, passed on. Somewhere, (Tennessee, or Georgia she had heard) dwelt her children's, children's, children, but...
The late spring morning was beautiful. The sky had been scrubbed by a soft rain last night. The sun was glowing between the light, fluffy clouds drifting lazily through the sky. The beauty was lost on Christie. She had been driving aimlessly for awhile, her thoughts a dark contrast to the bright day. Ever since getting her drivers license fourteen years ago,...
Daniel was leaning against the cruise ship's rail and looking out to sea it was a dark and shimmering sight in the full moon's bright light. He was all alone on this cruise, the romantic cruise he and his wife had always planned, but somehow had never taken. Now that he was widowed it somehow seemed he had to do this, to put his memories in their proper plac...
The carnival had been closed for years after a tragic accident. It was rumored that once anyone entered, they will never return. Their bodies will be found beaten and bloody by the road that was the only way into the carnival. It still stands on the edge of town, rusty metal, decaying wood and tattered old tents still stand. The sidewalk was overgrown with w...
Early on Monday morning Steve was leaving. He would be away a whole week due to a course in advanced education. In the night before Steve left, he and Susan had had hot sex together. It was their first intercourse since their talk. Their sex was very romantic. They first had a nice dinner. Then they went to bed when it was still early. Susan only wore a lig...
I As the water streamed across the window pane, I watched Jayne pull her coat tight, dashing from the car, through the torrential rain into the house, cursing the British summer in all its soaking glory. "Steve," she called, as she hung up the coat to dry, "I've an invite here, to a fancy dress party, Helen is holding on Friday" "I'm in here," I called...
Author's Note: Drama warning. Enchantress ---- Silvia Durazzo held a hand to her mouth, her eyes cast towards the floor as Talos knelt beside the sorceress on the bench. "... Silvia?" the man asked, his words sounding utterly dejected. Silvia shook her head. "Talos, she's..." Silvia thought for a moment how best to cheer the man up. She had never s...
Terri and Mona abruptly stopped talking as soon as I stepped onto the deck. When two girls stop talking as soon as you show up, that's never a good sign. That's Terri my girlfriend and her older sister Mona. They were both stretched out on blankets, soaking up the sun in their bikinis... but I knew Terri had only very faint tan lines around her breasts, so...
The snap of the fire, the smell of the autumn leaves, the chill of the occasional breeze, left no doubt that fall was here, and winter fast approaching. I waited my turn to dance inside the small canvas tent. I would have to be the best there was, to garner the support needed to marry the man of my dreams. He would help, but I must also be good. The King o...