At 11:33 p.m., the Blue Line Coach from the city crawled into the bus terminal at Mount Ellen. It slunk between two other dark and silent coaches, and came to a stop. The driver switched off the engine, which seemed to give a weary sigh as it died at the end of its ten-hour journey A handful of yawning passengers alighted and stood around waiting for the lu...
SAM It was a cold wet day at the plant fair. We were indoors though, so business was still good and we were doing a brisk trade. In fact we were doing so well that I was wondering if I should ask Jill to bring in the last stock left in the van. I was running over the time we had left against the time to bring in the stock from two streets away and the likel...
This is a different type of story for me. It is loosely, very loosely, based on my first son's birth. However, it is told with tongue planted firmly in cheek. This may be to right time to tell all of you our family motto: "Never let the truth get in the way of a good story." Large parts of this story are true, though a lot has been embellished and a lot more...
(It was 1892 and I, David Shaw, then aged 19 joined 'Maynard and Son, Purveyors to Gentlewomen and the Aristocracy' on Upper Richmond Road, Putney. The job involved providing 'underskirt services' to single women. This was my second day with the firm) *** I rested my bike against the railings outside Maynard's and went in. Another young fellow of similar a...
The sound was horrible: metal against metal; screeching, tearing, popping. The steering wheel jerking and twisting in his hands "Keep your thumbs up!" He thought. A dark shape loomed over him. When the car came to rest Frank Russo took a deep breath and looked around. To his left a vehicle door with the words 'Aurora's Nursery' inches from his shoulder. Str...
During the Queen's address ceremony, the "Kingdom of Asarna" was officially renamed "Queendom of Asarna". The renaming was meaningful as it once again reaffirmed Queen Ezana's undisputed supremacy as the matriarchal ruler of Asarna. The Queen's address was followed by a long celebratory feast. All the ministers and high officials of Asarna attended. Of cou...
She had just gotten out of the hospital and wasn’t even talking to her husband. Her husband will had left her in the hospital while she was in labor and gone out with his buddies to a titty bar. He didn’t care about his first child. Maybe he would care about the next one, but it damned sure wouldn’t be his. Who would it be? It had to be someone who would mak...
Thursday morning, September 12, 1957 at just after six o'clock, Diana Richards awoke from a disturbing nightmare and with a funny feeling. She lay in bed for a moment trying to figure out what it was besides the dream that woke her up. Then she felt it... the muscles of her abdomen contracted harder than she'd ever felt them do so before. Dr. Hamilton had to...
What I Learned From A Friend Who Was A Stay-At-Home-Mom And Professional Dominatrix "Brenda" told me she did not want to put her baby into day care after the child was born so she would put plans for a regular job on hold and continue as a professional dominatrix after the little one came into the world. However, she definitely wanted to protect her baby fr...
Daphne strolled seemingly without purpose through the large park. Its trees were almost devoid of leaves. A brown, orange, red and yellow carpet of leaves covered the ground beneath the canopy of bare branches. It was odd not to be pushing a pram for once. Her three year old daughter had started nursery that week. Although it was only three hours a day, it...