The morning was laden with a heavy fog and it was quiet out on the plains. While riding in the jeep down the rutted roads, I thought I saw movement at the base of a large tree. The tree's branches spanned the sky, some with foliage and the others gnarled with age. The tree appeared black against the fog back drop. So it was difficult to make out the shadow a...
First I would like to apologize for the length of time with no activity. Real life reared its ugly head. Now that I can work on this a bit, I started working Chapter nine up, and went back through to check a few things, and found myself looking at some necessary edits. They are clarifications and streamlines mainly, with one foreshadowing element added. This...
1834 The sound of screaming women along with the shouting of men, brought Mercy out of her sleep. She stood up just as the door to the Captain's quarters was smashed open. Instinctively she reached for the gun, hidden in the drawer, next to the Captain's bed. At the same time her gaze caught the glistening tip of a sword as it protruded out of her Sir's che...
8 Junior Club Cadets We woke the next morning in a King-sized bed. We were surrounded by a bedroom setting with white sheets and covers, but it didn't feel quite real, almost like we were on stage but still had four walls. . We both felt slightly drugged. As I started to regain myself I remembered being on a examining table, being attended to, being clean...
This is third chapter of the series that began with Housesitting and was continued with House Rules * In the morning I went to get the paper. I found two envelopes in the newspaper box, one addressed to Mercy and one to me. I brought them into the house without opening them, intending to wait until Mercy got up. But after drinking my coffee and unsuccessfu...
Author's note: This is set at a point of time before Superman first appears in Metropolis or joins the Daily Planet, so he doesn't feature in this story or in the lives of the people in it. ***** "Slow down, Frank," Lois hissed down the line. "I can barely catch a word you're saying." "I swear it's all true, Miss Lane," the man on the other end of the lin...
1836 The silence of the room held the secrets that each occupant was holding close to their chests. Morgan Benedict was no different, nor did he believe the young woman sitting across from him was either. Mercy Lewis, though a guest in his home under unique circumstances, was still after all human and that meant that she had her personal demons and what tho...
Authors Note: If you haven't read Snake Bite, please read it first for continuity. Bill called me on Tuesday, asked if I had set a date to leave for New York and I told him Tuesday, June 3rd. He said he'd call me back with flight info and that my ticket would be held at check-in. I objected but he was relentless. The first item on my agenda was to straighte...
We discussed the positives and the negatives of the club over the week. One big positive for me was that we were going to be forced to get into shape if we wanted to be accepted. The biggest was that I thought it would help our marriage. I knew it would certainly help our sex life. The negative was the money. It wasn't a huge stretch for us. Mercy had an a...
There are no characters in this story that are less then eighteen years of age. This story is a pure fiction. Any resemblance to any real person, living or dead, is coincidental and was not the intent of the author. **************** When I woke it was mid to late afternoon. Carol was no longer beside me in the bed but had gotten up I could hear sounds c...