Part 3 Costs It was a weird sensation. I wasn't in any pain, but at the same time I could feel every hit I had taken in my fight with Morgana. I lifted my shirt, expecting to see bruises on my ribs but there wasn't a mark. Trying to look past this odd sensation I got to my feet and looked towards my cottage but Morgana was nowhere to be seen and the window...
The economic meltdown of 2015 hit Roger particularly hard. He had been a fairly successful mortgage broker in Houston before the crash. It seemed like the steep rise in health insurance premiums hastened the death of the forty hour work week which in turn hastened an irreversible decline in the number of prospective buyers applying for mortgages. If that was...
As Emilia used her magic powers to move Jessica and Sarah through the air towards Sarah's apartment, she took a second to reminisce about how much fun she's had being Jessica's sneakers. Emilia was an omnipotent goddess, but she still had never experienced anything like this. It gave her a new perspective, using her powers to manipulate reality, but not bein...
Chapter 1 -- The Click of Heels I figured it had been about an hour since I last saw anything other than the stamped concrete around the pool. My knees ached and my neck was starting to throb. If it hadn't been for the fact that I could hear my wife, Kristina and her best friend Stephanie talking a few feet away I would have sworn she had forgotten about me...
I was brushing my hair in the small dressing room of a unisex bathroom when my new father-in-law's brother walked in and strode up to the facilities behind me. A commode and a bit further away a urinal were attached to the wall. He stood in front of the commode. An impossibly loud ...Z-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-P... echoed in my ears as he opened his fly. This couldn'...
Chapter 1. Arrivals I saw her coming down the corridor at the airport, and knew there was something wrong. She was walking like a tentative doe, like she was a bundle of nerves. I could see her eyes looking a bit wild and a small tremor in her slight body. She was walking like she expected to be attacked at any second and flew the last few yards into my arm...
I have been working hard on these this week has the most updates thus far. More to come. *** When she awoke, Mary found herself in her bed. She sprang up thinking about how she had gotten there. She glanced around and saw the letter. Her eyes slowly welled with tears. She was upset and just feeling down but thinking about the time she had with him. Her bod...
The following took place years before the internet so, unless you want to go digging in a newspaper's morgue, don't waste your time trying to look it up. Just to make that more difficult all of the names and places have been changed. This is a curious story of one man's integrity... a man who would not break his solemn word. The story is not mine. It was...
Gaea idled, sprawled out and stretched, sapped of strength and yet restless. Another wicked wave of heat swamped her tawny flesh and soaked her vine-tangled hair. These were frequent now. She knew what they were. Gaea's reason for being was being taken from her. Her drive to procreate waned. The gloomy weight of Nyx loomed heavy above her now. A dull unkno...
There was something in the way that they interacted with each other that first caught my eye. It wasn't something I could easily define but it intrigued me, nonetheless. I suppose I shouldn't have been surprised. With me and men, it's always something indefinable. They're never the same type, although olive skin and dark eyes never hurt anyone's chances, but...