Cliff had returned to Chicago on Saturday evening after an incredible week at the home office. He was now VP of Sales and had a huge challenge facing him. The West Region had not been performing up to expectations and Cliff would have to conduct a comprehensive review of everyone's prospects and activities. As he sat on the plane from Philadelphia to Chicago...
Copyright 2008 My name is Jessie and I am going to share with you my most intimate secrets by letting you read me diary. This would be the thing that most girls share with their best girlfriend, but I don't have anyone close. I'm a freshman at a regional State University. I have lived with my Grandmother for the last five years, both of my parents dying sud...
Author's Note: This is my 100th story. Or at least, nearly my 100th story. For every week for the past 100+ weeks, I have posted one or two stories. And through it all, I have been read by loads of people. All of you have been amazingly supportive - whether it was as simple as just coming back to read my stories time and again, or sending me a long critique...
So that's what got me to this point. And that's why I blame Gina. She brought Tom into my life, she pushed him at me (and probably pushed him towards me, only more subtly), and she's the reason everything is all messed up right now. Now? Well, it's about 24 hours since Tom kissed me, a stretch of time spent freaking out, panicking, soul-searching, crying, re...
A hot August night in 1969 found Ross Enzor and Marc Milner sitting in the outdoor lounge area of the Hotel Dennis. By then, it was still among Atlantic City's finer hotels. Yet, like AC itself, once the Grand Dame of the South Jersey Shore, it was showing its age. People who once patronized the place were taking their summer vacations elsewhere. Not that...
Author's note: This is a story based on The OC and takes place during Season 3. Both the actresses and the characters are over 18. * "What's it like?" Marissa Cooper's eyes blinked open after hearing the voice of her best friend Summer Roberts. She had spent the whole night partying with her friends and was drunk out of her mind. It wasn't unusual for M...
I was one of the early "modern" female FBI agents. I graduated from college in the 1970's, with an unusual combination of a both accounting and computer science degrees and a CPA. I also ran track in college and was in pretty good shape. I applied to the FBI and was accepted, and after my training and probationary work I found myself assigned to a white coll...
Chapter Seventeen Relating the horror of Tenerife and how the infection had spread to several countries made for a very troubled breakfast. James made Carolyn and John aware of what had happened in the other dimension and what was to follow here if not stopped. "They are desperate for a vaccine, any progress?" "No, I've been working on it constantly. I an...
Author's note. This story is a sequel to my 'What's It Like?' story and is also set during season 3 of The OC so both the actresses and characters are all over 18. *** Summer Roberts sighed to herself as she made her way to her next and final class of the day. She didn't even know what she was doing here, her mind was far too occupied for school and she...
Lawyers in Lust Copyright 2005 Martin Gatsby PART ONE Bright streaks of sunshine fell into Brooke's Wrigleyville condo. Dappled reflections of morning sun played along her sectional couch. A stray ray of light caught the silver Thermos resting on its side next to the couch. Another shaft of light struck Brooke's long since discarded pantyhose. The sunlig...