Chapter 2: Rescue Donna walked into the office. She had a happy smile on her face. "You were so sweet to her. I really like the idea of having us call her after her time with that guy. We can reward her. She will associate us with feeling better." Bob stood and stretched. "You were listening?" Donna laughed. "I didn't say I was hanging up. I just said I...
Hotel Pavane: The Blue Orchid Program I.A. The Ivory Desk Mme. Clarisse Brionne d'Longville Arisette, an elegant and dignified French woman of a certain age, waiting anxiously for a clerk to appear at the special Ivory Desk of the notorious Hotel Pavane to check her in, so that she may quickly disappear into the safety of her room before she is spotted and...
May 1999, Grenada, St. George's School of Medicine Vivian's POV "Jessica Ann Patterson." Snake, Carson and I were on our feet, cheering as she walked across the stage in her cap and gown. She shook the hands of the College President and Head of the Nursing Program, accepting her diploma in her left hand. She walked off to the left as the next name was an...
Stave I December 19th, 2017 The halls were decked and the banister was wrapped in a tinsel-holly aberration created by Tom. In fact, if you looked around the whole house, it was all Tom's doing. The lights around the windows, an obsession of his from two Christmases ago. The fiber-optic tree, no doubt found in a sky-mall catalog from their last trip to the...
Debbie wasn't the best looking girl in the office. In fact, the waste bin looked more attractive. But there was something about her that I couldn't put my finger on. She was hard working. She often stayed behind when everyone else left. Never did I have to chase her up over a project. Her dead lines were always met easily. In truth, she was about five, fiv...
*Author's Note: Any persons engaging in any sexual activity are at least eighteen years of age. Ch 1 In the 2005 yearbook of St. Thomas Aquinas, there were the usual sections; the graduating class of 2005, followed by the Junior, Sophomore, Freshmen, and Eighth Grade class pictures, both as individuals, and as a group. The faculty photographs followe...
Lexie hesitated, staring up at the huge building. She didn't know there were apartments in this building. Her heart raced. She looked around, feeling conspicuous standing still like that. She rubbed a palm down her thigh, feeling the smooth velvet of her green dress. It was tight, clinging to her body, hugging her but for once, she felt good in it. She looke...
I returned to my home town a vastly different person to the one that left it. Probably the only people who were pleased to see me were my immediate family, the rest of the town hated my guts. When I left here I took the best looking and most popular girl with me. She returned without me, in a box, and I was blamed for that. I pulled my specially designed ca...
Author's Note: This is my sixth semi-annual "invitational." The initial one was based on the Statler Brother's song, "This Bed of Rose's." The second used the Marty Robbins El Paso trilogy: "El Paso" "El Paso City " and "Faleena." The third had stories based on the various versions of "Maggie May" or "Maggie Mae." The fourth invitational was based on any Co...
Next morning Skye spent a couple of hours flicking through the rejected manuscript titled 'Zina Mace Finds Love' to decide how to get it reinstated for possible publication. Her conclusion was her editors had done a damn good job in rejecting it. It was pathetic. She sighed and stared the wad of paper. Where to start? To start anew would delay the request...