Author's note: I apologize for taking so long to get this story to you. As a college student (approaching graduation!), life tends to get in the way of leisurely writing. Please bear with me. I am working fastidiously on chapter 5. * "And so the young master returns." Gerard started, looking over his shoulder at Henry. He had just returned home and was bu...
Wednesday was hump day for Janie in more ways than one. It was the middle of the week, it was the day her mom wanted the kids to visit her, and it was Janie's day to cruise the Mall. She loved the eye candy at the Mall and the peace of not having a four year old and a one year old climbing and clinging to her. She dropped the kids off a little before noon...
Sunday was hell for Nora. The hangover and the devastating reaming that Ricky and Jeff had given her in the car hurt beyond belief. Her vagina was chaffed and red, and the two had so stretched her that she was sure she would never recover. As she stared at the black leather book in front of her, she was sure of one thing. No matter if and how the book had ch...
Tony had been on the phone for a good half hour talking to a man named Rick, one of his ex-clients. To be more precise Rick was one of Tony's failures, the pair having met in Tony's professional capacity of being a marriage counsellor. "I'm sorry it didn't work out for you and your wife," said Tony sympathetically. "Look, speaking off the record, man to man...
Agent Joey Smith scampered to answer the phone, he had been sleeping on his desk since last night trying to finish the paper works that accompanied their recent bust of the dreaded Washington drug ring. “Hello! Is this Smith?” came the booming voice from the other end of the line. “Ah…yeah..this is Smith.” Smith answered as he tried to regain his bearings...
He wasn't perfect. Being a sane, relatively intelligent woman, she knew that. However, was there anything wrong with him? She doubted it. He was as near perfect as she ever hoped to find. And that was good enough. For the past few months people had been commenting on the change in her attitude. Not that she was ever unpleasant, but they all seemed to think...
"The end of the enchantment was come and the Princess awoke, and she said: 'Is it you, my Prince? You have waited a long while...'" -Charles Perrault, "The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood" *** 1796 Elena woke. It was dark. She pushed on the lid of the coffin and it opened. A single candle glowed on the table, and she saw that the crypt was empty except for...
All characters are over 18 years of age. ***** Monday night, Mark and Jenni go to an appointment with Dr. Zavodny as a couple. He moved up their weekly sessions in light of what's been occurring. Mark didn't have time to change out of his work clothes. In the elevator up to the shrink's office, Jenni gives him a shy grin. "You look like a mechanic." He sm...
The cobalt darted into the drive and rolled nearly to the garage door before it stopped. He had brought the large black Labrador and border-collie mix but was determined to leave the animal in the car. He had not been in the woman's house before and did not desire to add problems with the dog to his concerns for the heart of the woman. For the first time in...
Heather raised the sports bottle full of margarita high. "To being away from kids and old men!!" she proclaimed loudly, and chugged hard on it, provoking laughter and cheers from her friends, as well as on-lookers on either side of the blue minivan. It was a warm summer evening in the parking lot of the mega amphitheater. Inside, some unknown hopeful band w...