Check out part one for the whole story from the beginning if you like. As always, comments and ratings are more than welcome! Part Two: Great Love, Great Loss, and the Great War Years wore on since that night on the eve of November, and my visits to the Connollys became less frequent. My bones couldn't take the mile walk over the rolling road more than onc...
Three friends. Best friends. School teachers with the summer off. North Carolina, hotter than Hades. Charlene, with an old family tie to the slender islands known as the Outer Banks, found a beach house to rent, through a friend of a friend. A four bedroom though they'd only need three, the three friends all bringing their husbands, of course. The house is j...
Ch. 01: Mom in a school uniform 'That was your school on the phone! You've been skipping classes!' Rose crossly spoke. 'Sorry mom. I went the first day, but it was so different, I didn't know anyone. . .' Janice shrugged. 'We had to move to a cheaper apartment, you know that. I'm sorry about the change of schools, but we just have to make the best of it,'...
Ned parked found a parking spot a block or so away from Cynthia’s apartment building, on a side street that would conceal its presence unless someone were looking for it. He didn’t want to park in front of the building because his wife sometimes came home from work that way and if she saw the car she’d wonder what he was doing and then figure he was visiting...
Chapter 2 Anthony and Sara They hated each other, the woman from the trailer park and the man with the privileged background. She hated the perfect suits and ties he wore. He hated the Big Cube specials clothes she wore. She made as much money as he, which was ample, so she could afford a better cut of clothes. The only positive thing he could say about...
For Juliette, per your request. * Chapter One -- Mostly set-up. The trip was meant to be a vacation for John. He had worked tirelessly on his latest articles for New Yorker magazine and felt he was due a break. He had thrown himself full time into his work since his wife died the year before of breast cancer at the tender age of thirty-nine. Their one son...
Carl heard a knock on his door as he was about to settle down for a movie. Knowing the knock, he got up and headed briskly to the door. Not even bothering to look through the peep hole, he flung the door open and hugged the eighteen year-old blonde bombshell that was waiting on the door step. "How's my favorite girl?" Carl asked, his aged face breaking into...
I'm an RN at a local hospital. This story is an actual event that took place when I was a nineteen year old nursing student doing clinicals at another hospital. The names have been changed because I could loose my job over this. It was Monday evening, I was in my third week of clinicals, and I was making my rounds to get vitals on the patients. I walked in...
It was the worst night of Maddi's life she had been kicked out of her parents and then dumped by her boyfriend; she didn't have her car and didn't have any place to stay. It was 11pm and she decided to lie down on a bench at the park, where she was. Just as she lay down a man walked up to her he was about 6'1 with short light brown hair a beard and a lean mu...
Part 1 So I'm not the sharpest or brightest knife in the drawer, I admit it and it's not going to do any good for you to rub it in. It may have taken me a few years to catch on and now that I know what's been happening behind my back, I'm going to need help trying to figure out what to do next. Sure I still love the bitch, but I don't like her at all anymor...