Cardinal Aldous stood at the large stone framed window looking out at the wide plane that led to the sea. He absently shifted the artifact from hand to hand, as always it felt warm to the touch. So much history, so much bloodshed, so many hopes for the future hung on the merkabic star in his hand. Cardinal Aldous moved outside, to the wide terrace that was...
Until the last three months, his life had been rather mundane and he had wondered if things would always be run-of-the-mill for the rest of his natural days. He had a secure, comfortable life with all the familiar trappings…marriage, mortgage, car payments, etc. He’d been married several years to a nice, uncomplicated woman. But their life was routine and av...
The trip to Las Vegas was everything I thought it would be; a week-long party. Val chartered a flight out of the small Napa airport. Apparently, this was as easy as calling a Taxi. We packed enough to survive for a week, making sure to take extra drugs and medication since I was certain that would be the preferable choice, to his dialysis machine. Not that I...
The Ending You Waited For. The Ending You Deserved. Who Killed Jenny Schecter? A Shane and Carmen Novel by Alice Pieszecki and O. G. Salli Chapter 1 Orange Is the New Alice"McCutcheon!" They called it "The Farm," but it was just a prison with a touchy-feely nickname, and at this touchy-feely prison they called the guards "correction officers," COs for...
Ellie and I were a pretty typical Midwestern couple. I ran a tractor supply store, and kept up our little ranch on the edge of town. She worked part time at the library, more for something to do than for the money, and volunteered at our church. I had heard the guys in my college bragging about how they were going to move to the city, find some lingerie mode...
We never celebrated Valentine's Day in the way that others did. It was no big deal to us. It was no different than any other day. We didn't need a special day to encourage and remind us to celebrate our love. Happy to have found one another so early in life and thrilled to still be together after all the adversity in our lives, every day was Valentine's Day...
Hi everyone. I have started to publish this story once before. I´m a beginner at this, and I found that the segments I published the story in then were too short. They felt chopped up, the rhythm wasn´t right. So now I´ll publish the story in three segments instead of fourteen. I hope you´ll like it. A lot of it is quite true, but certainly not everything....
HE WENT TO HER IN THE NIGHT, sporting a blue hooded sweatshirt that didn't quite cover the tufts of dark blonde hair spilling down over his eyes, leaping out his second story window and landing smooth and agile like a cat on the wet grass with a poof. Across the little backyard lawn to the neighbors house a cat hurried for safety, scampering and clawing thro...
It was Valentine's Day. Actually, it was Valentine's evening, as most of the day had already slipped by. It was our 5th wedding anniversary, which seemed a hopelessly romantic idea at the time, having a wedding on Valentine's Day, surrounded by all the red hearts and little cupids and rose bouquets, and especially in light of our long history with the holida...
Disclaimer for the entire series: Everyone in this story - and in real life - are 18+ years of age. All locations, art and music in this story are real. Any celebrity actions or motives similar to their real-life counterparts is entirely coincidental. Part 1 (Chapters 1-5) to be released ASAP. Part 2 (Chapters 2-10) to be released next week. Part 3 TBD...