My Husband has asked me to write this. I suppose it's a kind of a confession, perhaps for us both. I owe him at least this. Though it is not an apology. It will tell many things about the last year of our marriage. (That's wrong, our marriage isn't over, yet.) It infers many things about the previous years in our relationship too. The events in the last year...
All rights reserved. This is a work of fiction. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, is purely unintentional. Part of the Wine & Old Lace event, with a few literals corrected. PROLOGUE WE walked slowly, almost reluctantly from the warm and stifling waiting room across to Platform 7, to where the puffing engine had just dragged its train of c...
Milly enters school greeting her friends and heading towards her first class, gym. As she walks into the changing room she notices the room is almost entirely empty, walking over to her friend Lauren she asks “why is it so empty in here” Lauren replies with “Don’t you know there’s a trip for the local college” “No I didn’t”What's next? Stay She ditches it...
Amanda and Adam returned to Selby Bluff in mid-July for the cotton harvesting. That entailed very early starts at daybreak, long days and late finishes at dark; a work pattern that neither were at all used to. The crop was satisfactory in overall volume, but the yield per acre was low, the lowest it had ever been. Most plantation owners attributed this to th...
Amanda and Adam returned to Selby Bluff in mid-July for the cotton harvesting. That entailed very early starts at daybreak, long days and late finishes at dark; a work pattern that neither were at all used to. The crop was satisfactory in overall volume, but the yield per acre was low, the lowest it had ever been. Most plantation owners attributed this to th...
Writer's note: this is a sort of prequel to "First Meeting," taking place around a month or so before. There are terms that might be unfamiliar to new readers, so I'll define them here: Arthur is an andyne, which is a person with large bird wings; Rabb is renoige, which is basically a cat-person, and hamans are elf-like people with long pointed ears. * Art...
I was just 18 when I met Brian he was a few years older than me but I thought nothing of it. He was very nice to me and took me to some nice places and introduced me to his friends as his girlfriend and though we hadn't even had sex of any kind at this point I played the part of the loving girlfriend. This went on for about three months when out of the blue...
CHAPTER 1 Newly establishing business security consultant Rivers Mulholland opened the door to his renovated rented office and saw a rat scuttle away. Not an auspicious start but a change after twelve years in the Military Police Corps. The rats he'd dealt with there were two-legged and shifty-eyed if enlisted personnel, steady-eyed if they held officer ran...
Eighty-six. That was the number of people killed during the most recent of raids that the country of Calmeria had endured. The enemy was crafty and had managed to avoid the country's troops as they hunted for the killers. These enemies were goblins. Standinging only half the height of an average human male, they were cunning and deadly fighters. Although cow...
Slightly abrasive young American attorney Montana Reynolds on a year-long posting to the Australian rural town of Red Ridge, was invited into the office of Reginald Day, managing partner of Red Ridge Law for morning coffee. "Well Montana, your first few weeks with us have run pretty smoothly with no real fuck-ups." She was becoming used to the direct way o...