CHAPTER 1 Driving rain and the falling temperature finally drove Holly Jones off the walking track that followed the tops along the mountain range. She could see a back-country road a couple of thousand feet below and decided to retreat to it, hoping someone would come along and take pity on her. The descent was slow because of the loose gravel slides, ext...
So, you want to be a writer? Maybe not, but keep reading, you might be entertained. The first rule that many people tell you in creative writing is "Write what you know." I'm going to tell you that this is the last thing you should do. No one wants to read about your family drama. Do you think that Vince Flynn is actually a terrorist hunter? Or that Bob...
The Black Pearl: Memoirs of a Victorian Sex-Magician Book review by Quine Originally written (one supposes) in the 1890's, by an unknown author who lists himself only as "anonymous". My copy, a paperback published by Hodder and Stoughton, London is without question the greatest pornographic novel I have ever read! This is "in my own experience" of course,...
I should become a spy. I would be good at it too. I mean, I'm short, cute, and sometimes I can pretend I'm very dumb. I'm not at all petite or thin so if they were looking for the next James Bond girl, I wouldn't be it. No one would suspect that I was a spy. I could listen in on conversations and pass on important information to those that needed it. Yes, I...
It ran in the New York Times on May 10th 2008 in a short, but touching article and although it was over a week late and I discovered the article in a literary blog, the title: "Elaine Dundy, Author of 'The Dud Avocado' is dead at 86," I was shocked and saddened. Elaine Dundy actually died on May 1st from a heart attack only a few weeks after I had read the b...
Why give a gift that is worn once and forgotten? Give a gift they shall remember forever. Here is a list of ten great books that would make ten great gifts. Happy Holidays! Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen If she is a lover of all things British, time to treat her to one of the lesser known novels by Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice, Emma and Sense and Sens...
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The wind was howling on Friday night and wood fire in the family room fireplace was roaring when Ryan heard a vehicle arriving. "Someone's coming, only idiots would drive for pleasure on a night light this." "Or real friends," Skye said, and left the room. "I'll go," Fergie said, burping pre-dinner beer and tucking in his shirt. Glenys heard the noisy gr...
I was attending a soiree with my wife, Clare (soiree: a fancy term for a late happy hour amongst the intelligentsia and I was happy because I had a very nice scotch, neat, in my hand). Anyway, I was sitting quietly in a corner watching my wife and others in the room. She was talking animatedly with her mentor and friend, Professor Randy Holcomb. Her hand mot...
Kim sat in the living room of her apartment reading the latest romance novel she had bought at the local grocery store. She loved romance novels and wished that a strong hansom man would come sweep her off her feet, just like she loved to read about. She had just gotten to one of the many sex scenes that these books tend to have and she allowed her imaginati...