All characters are at least the age of 18 or older. ***** "You're up miss ace detective, you gonna call or are you here just to watch?" asked a pair of hazel green eyes flashing a confident grin and all the shiny white alligator teeth to go with it. I scrunched my nose, irritated by the gritty scent of the cigar nestled between her dragon-like smile. Glan...
The day dawned bright and sunny after weeks of grey drizzling weather and on the spur of the moment my wife decided we needed to visit a local nursery to purchase some more rose bushes for our garden beds. Just after morning tea we climbed into the car and set off for the nursery which was about forty minutes drive from our home. The drive was uneventful an...
I lay still, I stayed at the Messer House on the nursery grounds. It was built in 1952 by Frank's grandmother. A powerful woman. This house a monument to what she accomplished. A war widow with seven children she turned the full section wheat farm into a thriving nursery. She sold starter shrubs to the contractors and bedding plants to the new suburbanites....
This story is an allegory of a real life relationship that developed in my life. It helped me cope with disappointment, and to perhaps be better able to accept the reality that had crashed upon my infatuated fantasy. I cope with the friendship better now, having decided that staying a part of her life is better than nothing, yet there are times when the attr...
My grandmother, Deborah, whose openness and freeness of spirit I loved dearly, was not known to be the most direct of women, and she was legendary for her frugality. But she also had more fun in life than anyone else I had ever known. As she was dying, she gave me a thick envelope, telling me that I was only to open it if I had retained my virginity until th...
(The year is 1942. Jack has been deployed to North Africa, leaving behind his pregnant wife) * The ground shook as bombs exploded all around. Everywhere the air was filled with smoke and flying debris. The sounds of men screaming in pain and mass confusion momentarily blocked out the terrifying thuds of the artillery shells. Suddenly, a man's face appeared...
Formerly Know as "Lost Dog Leads to Hot Pregnancy" Jennifer came home from the doctors office and had a huge smile on her face. Alex was upstairs playing with the babies when Jennifer walked in the room. “What’s the smile all about” Alex said. “Your never going to believe what the doctor just told me” she said. “Your not” he said. “I’m pregnant agai...
The apartment was less of an "efficiency" than a "deficiency." Hamish's uncle had taken one fairly large place and turned one into a nice studio, with a kitchenette. This was rented by Thalis, a nice if a little heavyset dark haired gal who worked at Buttermilk Nursery, provider of plants and garden supplies to the Buttermilk Falls yuppies. Thalis was no r...
(All characters in this story are at least 18 years old) Joanne Abadila was at a loss. It was not the death of her estranged parents that got to her. Joanne's parents where a very traditional, conservative family. They had very strict, scheduled to the letter life-plan in mind for her since the day she was born. She was meant to go to the same law schools, h...
The sudden loss of blood and the pain should have killed Crown Prince Emil. According to what little information Muriel heard from the loyal, always willing to keep a secret, doctors that tended to the prince, he honestly should have died. The fact that he lived mystified them. Muriel eventually decided that Prince Emil had been fueled by his own pure evil....