Everyone portrayed is over eighteen. This is fiction; as always, all characters and events, etc. are figments of our imagination and have no connection to any living or dead persons, or true events. Le Coeur du Jardin (The Garden's Heart) My marriage to Gwen needed a boost; our fourth anniversary was coming up soon and something had changed over the past...
Charlie Owens walked past the reception desk in the lobby of Tyler, Dallas and Harrison, trying to look as nonchalant as he could. If the fair-haired twenty-one year old was lucky, anyone would assume he was just back from a coffee break, and not coming in two hours late. He had just about made it when Brenda Peters, the law firm's receptionist, looked up fr...
Editing magic performed by KJ24 and Shyqash, plus contributions by the regular gang of brigands and neer-do-wells Loving your enemy is easy ... you know precisely where both of you stand In case anyone cares: I do not hate China or the Chinese People. As a Global Power, the PRC is fair game to be a great antagonist in a fiction story. Not only do they have...
All people and places are fictional. All characters are over eighteen. ***** A painter with a remarkably steady hand was writing the name Peter Jokland with a long, thin pinstriping brush. The white letters seemed to flow off the tiny brush onto the green paint below like they were meant to be there. "Can you put Jock in the middle, with little quotation...
Our radios had been squawking like a mob of magpies for at least half an hour. That amount of chatter was unusual for that time of day. Something big must have happened. "Unit Twenty-Four, what's your ten seventy-seven for Magnolia?" That was the latest thing from dispatch to come over the squawk box. Ten Seventy was a request for how long it would take to...
A DAY IN THE LIFE OF MAILGIRL NINE I awoke before the alarm and slipped quietly out of bed being careful not to wake Anna. After a stop in the bathroom to pee, run a brush through my hair, and brush my teeth, I padded out into the kitchen to make breakfast. I was nude, of course, as I always was and by the time Anna appeared in the kitchen I had the morning...
WARNING DO NOT READ THIS STORY IF YOU ARE IN ANY WAY RELIGIOUS OR TAKE OFFENCE AT ADULT STORIES THAT DEPICT RELIGOUS CHARACTERS. * Dawn woke the following morning after a night of noisy sex with Cathy feeling as though she had been born into a new world. So much had happened in the last couple of months that it seemed so surreal. She went to the kitchen t...
Nock I shrugged at Norm. "I don't know, man. I guess she left a few details off of her resume." "Yeah, well this is a big, big problem." He rounded on Stan. "We need to get our Agency contact on the phone right now. We have to send her back to wherever she came from." "Martin?" the girl said, her voice unsteady. "Can't we talk about this?" Stansy looked...
Chapter 1 Waiting for the 157,000-ton cruise ship, Luxury at Sea, to berth and the discharging of its almost 3800 passengers to begin, Hudson Lamont was also preparing to say goodbye to his fiancée, Sylvia King. The previous night, after gentle sex in the spa bath in their stateroom, Hudson told Sylvia he'd sold his partnership in the Sydney law firm of An...
"You have to be joking!" "No, I'm deadly serious," came her husband's calm reply. "You want me to serve your guests dinner but to be completely naked?" she asked incredulously. "I would not do that for a million pounds sterling!" "We'll see," he said simply. There was silence. Their daughter, Yvette, sat quietly between them thinking that if she was give...