I was woken at 6:30 by an irritatingly happy Ian, who seemed amazed that I didn't want to get up after only 2 hours sleep. Apparently, he had decided that we had to keep to some sort of fitness regime while we were on leave. His chattering about a 5 mile run/yomp before breakfast did not appeal, telling him to go fuck himself, I rolled over to go back to sle...
"Look, Mr Lytles, I really don't care about taking more of your money, and my boss absolutely doesn't care, and would be perfectly happy to keep taking more of it, but this has been a boring case, and I really think that you're wasting your dollars." That was Jim Cramer, a private detective out of Lexington, and we were meeting at, of all places, the Parket...
It was the Friday after Thanksgiving and my husband had to work and my son had gone for the weekend to stay with some friends, so I took the time to start putting up the Christmas decorations in our home. It was quite warm that day since we live in the South so all I had on was a white, button blouse and a pair of loose, white gym shorts (the nylon silky kin...
I recently moved into a small house in a dump of a town called Morview. The place was worn down and not many people lived there. The population had been reduced over the years due to lack of employment opportunities and basic necessities. My living conditions were temporary, I was an architect specially invited from India to design the plan for the upcoming...
It was a beautiful summer day despite having lost the game. I walked toward the after game party with Kevin. We were a little early, headed toward the bar where the other team had arranged the party. Kevin noticed Melissa and Chuck a block away and across the street before I did. Chuck was one of the married guys on the team. I didn't know him well. He seeme...
It started when my wife and I were on a vacation in the Dominican Republic. It was February, and very cold in Boston, where we had lived for many years after our marriage. On the spur of the moment we had decided to get away to someplace warm, so we got my parents to come stay at our place a few days to mind the kids and booked a last-minute, four-day weeke...
It had been a miserable flight, the expected end to a long, difficult trip. Nothing quite made Sophie hate her body so much as flying. She felt fat and old and gross. She was slightly queasy and her head throbbed with dehydration from the recycled air. Her knees and shoulders ached from trying to hold herself small, cramped into that awful tiny seat. She stu...
Varric watched as the hooded dwarf picked up a key from the desk before inserting it into the door at the end of the hall, locking it. He felt his heart sinking to his boots. "Bianca..." he said, his voice admonishing, hurt and confused. He exchanged glances with the Inquisitor. "You're the leak? You know what this stuff does to people!" "When I got the lo...
(Author's note: Dmeytri is an anthropomorphic species called a renoige - he basically looks like a black-haired, stubby-tailed cat person with a hairless belly like a gorilla. Robert is a human empath. They're from my original works, and work for an interdimensional airship delivery service, where they are delivery partners.) Robert first heard it as Dmeytr...
May 2013 The Snipe had been laid off from the yarn mill, and then he'd done a spell bouncing drunks at the "Illegal Beagle" before working for a bit for the verger at Buttermilk Purity Temple. "I think that I have something that more might fit your best interests" Dieterle said with a smile. She sipped her beer and cocked her head. "Isn't that what they u...