Tamar slung the heavy rucksack over her shoulders and started up the winding cobbled street that left the town. Every month, for nearly as long as she could remember... Tamar had climbed God's Thumb. The great jagged monolith of limestone overlooked a bend in the river. Atop this great pillar sat an ancient monastery, inhabited by just one very old monk and...
Author's Note: Hi, petals. I'm dipping my toes in. Please relax and enjoy. ~*~ The office was almost deserted. Kiera preferred it that way. The hum of the PCs barely disturbed the cascading silence around her, and the room was lit by the soft glow of abandoned monitors reflecting off the impervious wall of windows. During the day, Kiera felt vulnerable b...
Note- Another tall tale of Kate Middleton's University years, or is it? Scotland, December 2001. About tea time. x "HUMPH, OOF, OH!" Kate Middleton, six months into her Freshman year at the University of St. Andrews in Fife, was bent at the waist as she looked out of her dorm window onto the busy Campus three floors below. "Busy for this time of year,...
The meeting has been dragging on for hours and Vex is trying to pay attention, she really is, but the merits and demerits of a water powered pump engine for the deeper levels of the copper mine versus a refined white-stone powered one, or even one of these newfangled hell machines Percy and his little entourage of droll tinkers are so excited about, are lost...
The door shuts out the howling wind and snow behind you. A woman in sheer fabric stands from a stool behind the counter to the left. Seated around a fire central to the main entrance, several men straighten in their leisure, eyeing you up and down. Their armor is in various states of removal as they swallow ale from tankards, their beards drizzled with the s...
Mia stood in front of the mirror, admiring her new clothes. She wore a white blouse. At the shoulders and below her neck the thin fabric gave way to a floral pattern of fine lace giving a glimpse of skin. Over this was a sleeveless coat, deep blue and low cut, tied at the front with crosses of midnight blue ribbon. Her skirt matched the coat, flowing down to...
(For readers outside Australia, a few notes: Mobile = Cell Phone. Summer begins on December 1. In Australia we wear thongs on our feet = flip flops. That is 'thongs' plural. 'Thong' could be one of those items of footwear but increasingly is also used for that item of underwear which has barely a string between the bum cheeks and a tiny triangle of cloth in...
"You're a hard man to find, you know?" I heard behind me, turning around to see her there. My little sister, Stephanie. The only part of my growing up that I remembered fondly. The only person growing up, including our parents, who didn't treat me like dog shit. Suffice it to say that my overall first impression of the much vaunted traditional, nuclear fam...
*This story is a fictitious account of real-life events from a twenty-somethings adolescence that have stained his image of self-worth, and the restorative powers of expelling these occurrences on a New Years lover.* ***** "Will I ever see you again?" Sarah sighed and looked down, stirring a rock candy swizzle stick around the edges of her coffee mug. "A...
Chapter One Hundred Eighty-One: Cactus Club Still having no idea what the plans were for the day, Alistair and I were up early, prepared to leave at a moment's notice, but we were the only ones. We had breakfast in the dining room, a buffet that was far more comfortable than the formal dinner had been, but aside from a handful of other guests, we were the...