One half bottle of vodka and two strong anti-depressants later he was ready to go. He checked his sway form in the mirror, for not a very tall man he commanded a very strong presence. This is the kind of man you notice when he walks in a room, with the black hair, gray eyes and classical good looks he knows that he draws most women's eyes. "Not as good as I...
(The Citadel) About Fifty Years Ago, Commander Shepherd Merged Synthetic and Organic Life, and Became The First Synthesised Organic, After the War, He Married Miranda Lawson, Became Humanities Councilor Before Disbanding the Council and Reforming It As A Democratic United Group of Species. Shepherd Became it's First Chancellor and Director of Military Operat...
I was in a state of unexpected excitement tempered with apprehension about having fallen into this situation. There was guilt too. We were in the back seat of a co-worker's car on the way to a Friday night staff bowling outing. Dorothy's head was cradled in my arm and we were kissing. Her arms were around me and my other arm and hand couldn't decide whether...
Part #6 Please read the first chapters of this story first before reading this one. Angie pulled into her mom’s driveway and knew her dad wasn’t home, his car was gone. Her mom met her at the front door and hugged her saying: “Oh Angie! He’s fantastic. Bud is so handsome and so nice and polite. I’m so glad I had a chance to meet him. Jack thinks he OK too!...
I didn't have to look at my watch to know it was past 2a.m. I could smell it. As the front door of the I.H.O.P. swung open, I picked up every whiff of stale alcohol and drying sweat from the people who entered. I didn't even have to turn around. My nose wrinkled at the gagging stench of fading cigarette smoke. Don't these people ever smoke cloves? I grimac...
Thomas was a recent college graduate from California, a former football player and a stereotypical jock. To celebrate his lately having completed school, he was vacationing half a world away from home, on the other side of the Pacific Ocean, in Australia. At present, he was boating off the shore of Queensland's Gold Coast, living it up and partying down. He...
Many thanks to my editor, adetaildiva. Without her this would be a poorer story; after her any errors are mine. * Three weeks later I was at dinner with Nan on Friday night. She had rented some DVD's and we were going back to her apartment to watch them. "Jack, are you dating someone else?" "Why do you ask?" I wasn't sure I was prepared for the 'Let's Be...
"I love you, baby." Joe spoke those words to Mandy two weeks ago, as she lay passed out and cradled in his arms. Joe had just beaten a stalker to within an inch of his life to protect Mandy. Joe was not ashamed of his actions or those words, but he wondered if things were getting too complicated. Joe drove the entire distance to Las Vegas. As his four-doo...
When I travel I really don't worry too much about the rent car, I generally choose a certain size and just let car gods at the rental agency decide which car I get. I sometimes call it rent car roulette and it's not until I'm handed the keys and given the parking space number that I find out if I am a winner or not. Sure I could look at the key tag, but it's...
Laurie's father had a sudden and massive heart attack. It was a miracle he survived the doctors had told them. If he hadn't been at home when it happened, scaring the living hell out of her mother, he probably wouldn't have made it. He had been standing in the kitchen talking to Laurie's mother went he went pale as a ghost. "Are you alright?" his wife ask...