This story was my first try at the dark future genre. With the nomination of THE RUN for a year end award, there has been renewed interest in that story as well as requests for more. This story introduces several of the minor characters and expands upon the world. It isn't necessary to have read The Run to enjoy this story, but if you have, it will give you...
"Pay attention, you silly girl," the cook said. Razai grimaced. She'd been listening for any sounds coming from upstairs, but the noise of the footmen clomping through the hallway outside the kitchen had drowned out anything else. "Yes, Cook," she said, appropriately obsequious. "Sorry, Cook." The job Renny Senshall had given her, determining whether two...
I've often felt that the web that connects mother and daughter is paradoxically as strong as steel and as fragile as glass, particularly when secrets are woven into its threads. Never was this more abundantly illustrated than in my own life. The screen door slammed closed with the arrival of my granddaughter Thea, returning tearfully from yet another tempe...
So that's why she didn't come to the funeral—didn't even acknowledge my letter—Penny thought. She put her forehead to the cold glass in the window overlooking the village street, gazing with a detached vision at the blanket of early December snow, which was covering the street and narrow front garden with a lovely covering of white. But Penny wasn't fooled...
"My first ever real party." Elliot Needy was stoked. It wasn't so much a surprise party yet many surprises were in store for Margo Needy's future world traveler. His close friends Brian, Cabot, Eric, and Heath had gone to great lengths to make it memorable. Mostly for them. They had been somewhat playing the young Prodigy over the last year in order to inf...
It was a dark and gloomy Saturday night. The rain continued pouring down in Cleveland and the thunder and lightning continued crashing every few minutes. However, things were completely different on the inside of the Mizanin household. Inside, both the Miz's mother and father were rapidly preparing for their Halloween party. The Mizanin Halloween party had b...
-IX- Once they reached the hall, Valentine loosed her body and her mind from the doctor's grip and ran off to join her comrades at a table. She was ravenous by then and wasted no time in requesting a traditional tea service to be served to herself, Annie, and Rosamund. The girls grew very excited about the idea and started chattering gaily. Away at his tab...
AUTHOR'S NOTE: Give Hiliad a chance, will ya?! lol This isn't so much about BDSM as it is about the relationship between him and Connee. There's a reason for his behavior as well as Daniel's. I didn't mean to make them so unlikable, but there's a reason, I promise! Big thing here, too: Chapters will be longer from here on out. A big shout out to Scooter fo...
Discipline and Dilemmas (1) ----------------------- Wednesday, 18 September ----------------------- Jenny Coombes rolled over and looked at the clock on her bedside table through half-open eyes. It was only half-past-six so she still had another hour before she had to get up to go to work. Her boyfriend, Derek, was still asleep, snoring quietly beside he...
It has been more than four years since I've posted anything new here. I have a whole bunch of stories in various stages of completion, but this is the first one that I've finished in a while (I don't publish anything until the whole story is completed). The idea for this two part story came to me when I was thinking about all of the people, mostly young wome...