She stood in front of me, hitching up her flowered skirt. A pair of lavender panties slid to the floor and she stepped out of them. Her dark eyes challenged me. "You are trying to trade those for something again." "Maybe, but mostly I want you." "I heard you found a new guy. Someone who didn't give you such a hard time." "I did, but he was a dud. I'm bac...
A pair of owls hooted a call-and-response to each other back in the pines. The shadows were lengthening; it was getting dark up here, and the denizens of the night were taking over. Jace Morgan gripped his shotgun tightly, nervously glancing around the forest. He'd been coming up here since he'd been a little kid; he knew every rock, every tree in these woo...
A rusted out, squeaking Gran Torino drove down a long private stretch of road just outside of Greenwall. Inside sat Kenneth Clark called Kenny or sometimes Ken by near everyone he knew and the very proud owner of the classic clunker. His thick brown hair was medium in length, yet short enough that he never needed to worry much about having a bad hair day, us...
"Are you going down to the pool after tea?" Marisa smiled. "After dinner, you mean? My god, I need to! Did you see how much there was to eat at lunchtime?" She put both hands around her waist. squeezed and frowned. "I'll need a whole new wardrobe by the end of the week." We were both stuck in the middle of an interminable residential training course, in a...
Word travelled fast through the highways and boulevards of cyberspace. Within minutes of going live on Emma Stone's official Facebook account, the video had received 547K likes, 209K shares, 93K comments and 34M views. It was re-posted, re-blogged and re-tweeted, not to mention shared on Reddit and every Internet forum worth its salt in the blink of an eye....
Chapter 30 – Sisters, Friends and Lovers Thanksgiving party, surprise guests, Ned joins circle The Henson's hosted a Thanksgiving Party at their house that should have been written about in the Food section of the Boston Globe. The night before Thanksgiving you would have thought the party was at the condo because the small kitchen somehow fit six women i...
Chapter One: Fortune Favors the Cruel The surface, my children, holds many a fantastic sight. To behold the sun winking off the waves, to see the great creatures of the earth moving through their territories on islands and continents. But you must be wary, the both of you. For there are beings up there of great power, whose very nature it is to bend the...
Chapter One- Good morning, my lady From its perch high in the sky, the blazing sun bought colour down onto all. The birds sung the sweet song of a Saturday morning and the neighbour was kind enough not to mow his lawn at the crack of dawn. None of that mattered, of course, because the Ainsworth family kept their blinds closed until mid morning. Quinnvile...
It was the second semester of Danny's freshmen year at ASU, and he'd just gotten back to his apartment after being kicked out of his girlfriend Lauren's parents' place in Scottsdale. He was in a lousy mood, and not just because driving back and forth between Mesa and Scottsdale took him almost an hour each way. Negotiating the distance between cities and try...
Before beginning the second episode let's go back. During the run of the series the Professor was always called Professor. Does anyone out there know what his name was? If so, speak up and win a prize, well not really a prize except knowing you saw the one episode where his name was given. OK, enough of the trivia and on with the story. * * * * * The secon...