Chapter 3 Shipwreck I was served in my office on Friday morning. There was no drama attached to it since I knew it was coming, as did my secretary and some of my staff. The process server was ushered into my office and made his perfunctory request for identification before passing me the envelope with the divorce papers. I added another item on my "getting...
3:45 PM, shortly after her final class of the day... Josie McKellen was still high on the events that had transpired today, skipping lunch even to catch her breath alone, that and attempting to salvage a ruined green dress borrowed from Piper Cherry, back in the trash it went. So much attention had certainly been invigorating, having been eaten alive by her...
Chapter 17 Survivors Carl Witherspoon looked on at the burning house shaking his head. He had received the call from the Sterling butler, Charles, and at his insistence had assembled his team and driven up. They must have arrived shortly after John Sterling and Isabelle, but the damage had been done. The house was now engulfed in flames. Several team member...
Out of Peoria: A Story of Innocence lost. Chapter 7: Life as a “Company Courtesan”. The strange thing about my initiation to life as a company courtesan was that for the first two days it was as though I really was being installed as a head of department in a major investment company! Jim Janacek turned out to be a very nice guy. Gay he may have been, you...
It was such a lovely day and Ms Passion had decided to abandon the country road and cut across the valley thru the Reese's and Brown's pastures. She removed her straw hat and let it hang around her lovely neck by the pale green ribbon. Then releasing her flowing red hair into the gentle warm breezes she started slowly strolling thru the waving green grass r...
(A special thanks to Barney R for his wonderful editing) Funnily enough, Brenda's death was to become the turning moment of his life. He returned home to find a letter waiting for him. The serial production guys had accepted his story and they wanted his continued association during the making of the serial so as to ensure that they got the feel of the st...
I was thrilled at the prospect of being hired as an assistant professor of English at the small New England college where I had first gone on a scholarship as a freshman. I had been drafted into the peacetime army right after college and had traveled around the world some before enrolling in graduate school at Columbia University in New York City. I finally...
When Fran Dodd looked out her kitchen window and saw the rider astride his horse in her yard, she was startled. Startled because her first hope was that it was Reese Harley, and startled second because the man was big and black. She opened the door cautiously. Behind her back she held Lester Dodd's big army Colt. "What do you want?" she asked. She wasn't a...
Chapter 2 Cullen's Secrets He couldn't believe that she was alive. Cullen, his older brother, hadn't come back from his weekend at the old cabin he insisted on keeping. Ian was irritated that his brother had not picked him up from the airport as planned. He had been gone for three months looking for new art for his galleries and was looking forward to show...
Hey, folks, thanks for the long wait, but here's Chapter 2. Jason and Kara have some more adventures, and there's some sexiness in this chapter. * Kara flipped through the coroner's report that they'd just had faxed over from the labs. "Doc says the rape kit turned up positive. No semen in our vic, so our guy wore a condom." "Smart, I guess." Reese rolle...