Anne Smithers, who had taught English for a few years, was slightly surprised when the young principal at St Kendras Finishing School called her in to discuss a new idea Miss Crawford had. Anne liked Penny Crawford, who shared Anne's own ideas on maintaining as strict discipline as possible without being able to touch the pupils. Penny told her that she th...
I owe the conception of this story to homealone_447's The Attic. I consider this to be an indirect sequel, in that character's from that story are in the background here and it largely adheres to the alien's method of propagation. The rest is my doing, enjoy. * Denise stood vigilant, looking outside her window, observing her neighbor, Rebecca. Only a few d...
The first round of the pageant started at 10 next morning but as a VIP you have to protect your image. So I made my appearance at 10:40 and everybody breathed easy. I was shown to my seat and I was pleased to see that my neighbor judge was Rani, who had been under my wing when she was starting her career. Didn't I mention that already? Despite her small body...
Heidi quietly sat on the warm park bench, watching Fitz who was happily running around swings and going down slides. It had been two weeks since her wedding, a two weeks that Heidi could only describe as static. Jake had been unfailingly pleasant and kind. He held her in his arms every night, though he kept true to his promise of not asking for anything mo...
"Everything is okay, baby," Heidi whispered to her son, "Time to go back to bed." She lifted him up into her arms and kissed his head. "Where's Ben?" Fitz asked, eyeing the strange man as his mother carried him into his room. "He went home. Try to go back to sleep sweetheart," Heidi laid him back down and pulled up the covers. "I'm not tired," the little...
After my little 'cat dying' incident Amber came and stayed at my place for a few days. It was quite a rush sleeping on my bed with her. The same bed her father had taken my virginity on. I explained to her that my neighbor thought it was our cat's body on the side of the road, but it was just a stray, she was very relieved and business went on as usual. On t...
What I loved most about Lexi was her chameleon-like ability to blend in with her surroundings. We could be at a gallery opening in Monterey, and she'd fit in with the rich and famous. We could be at surf bar in Huntington Beach, and she'd be right at home with the locals. This talent extended not just to her physical appearance but, her demeanor as well. Eq...
As I have already said we live in an apartment flat that shares a main front door, hallway and stairwell/staircase with 2 other flats. A young couple live in the ground floor flat and they have there own front door and have no access to our shared stairs. On the 2nd floor lives an elderly man, he has lived there for years, initially with his wife, and now...
As the train approached the subway platform, Jack moved forward to position himself to board and get a decent spot. As expected, the seats were all taken and the standing space was half full. When the doors opened, he maneuvered toward the end of the car to his favorite position. It was a narrow hallway next to the spare driver's compartment and the emergenc...
After we both entered our 40's my wife Ann was laid off and our daughter got married and moved out. Ann decided that she wanted some extra money for shopping and said we should rent out one of the spare bedrooms. I agreed so we could split the extra money so she could go shopping and I could use my half to put more towards the mortgage payment. Ann and I...