K-BAY 92.3 FM started sprinkling Christmas songs into their playlist in November, starting on Thanksgiving. For the first week or two thereafter, Nat King Cole, Bing Crosby, Burl Ives, and Gene Autry made casually rare appearances, surfacing between Huey Lewis and The News, Madonna and Depeche Mode. By the time The Big Holiday was actually at hand, airwaves...
Demographic trends are something I pay close attention to. I have it on good authority that White Canadians are having far fewer offspring than their African, Arab, Asian, Aboriginal and Latino counterparts. The future of Ontario, Canada, is colorful rather than pasty, if you catch my drift. Must be why so many Euro-Canadian bozos in the City of Ottawa, Onta...
I swept Katie into my arms and kissed her. My mind twisted in confusion and then desire. Then she tried to push me away and I remembered that she hated me. It was like an ice bath over my head, and I reluctantly let her go. "What are you doing here?" she gasped, her face flushed. I put on my blank face, my eyes turning to granite as I shoved my emotions de...
So.....despite my every precaution, disclosure now seemed inevitable. Not too many times in my life had I been trapped circumstantially leg-before-wicket (that's gonna confuzzle North American non-cricket followers!), especially in my own home. Hell, this was looming as the biggest domestic threat since Eve ripped off that Granny Smith, handed it to Adam and...
Chapter 31 "You feel you need to do this, but one more time, you don't," Joe said. We stood apart on the front porch staring into the woods surrounding my cabin. The air was cool, the wind slight, but it was warm enough that I didn't need a jacket. "I do need to do this. Now more than ever," I said. "I'll help if you want me to. Gotta make sure you don't...
Chapter 8 The room contained two women and eight men, including me. We were in a shack in the middle of the jungle, less a room than a box. Ten people to take out an army. I liked those odds. No one ever woke up one day and said, "I'd like to be an assassin," at least not out loud. If I had to put our job description down on paper that would be it: assassi...
The following morning I sat in a chair in the library with a leather bound copy of Little Women in my hand. I couldn't remember anything about the paragraph I'd just read, reread, and reread again. The words blurred together. "Katie, are you in here, dear?" Mrs. Donnelly stood in the doorway looking around the large room. "Oh, there you are. I have some hot...
Let us first address various readers' niggling concerns. Young women wouldn't really lust after older men...would they? I have to report, that they would and that they DO!. What became of Jenna and Kylie's mom? I actually addressed that one long ago in the first publication "It Came Upon a Midnight Clear," written itself, a fair while before I ever came acro...
In the morning Jake woke to a slight chill and the rhythmic sound of typing. With a quick start, the memories of last night came streaming back. Jake was no longer laying at the foot of the bed but was up at the top of the bed next to where Noel would have been had she been in bed at all. But in fact she wasn't. Noel had woken up early and had been unable...
*** THIS IS THE LAST CHAPTER OF THIS SERIES. I HOPE YOU LIKE IT. PLEASE DON'T FORGET TO VOTE AND COMMENT. *** CHAPTER 7- FATE??? "And this is Noel Angel and my mother Kate." Amber said introducing Noel to Leon. Noel noticed this guy staring at her. She felt like she had seen him somewhere before no, no make that been with him before but if she would have...