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Money Well Spent

by qhml1 on Jan 7, 2019
Novels and Novellas

Chapter 1 I smiled as I heard her complaining. She had been accosted by a homeless man, wanting a few dollars for bus fare, and she felt so bad she had given him a five, only to see him go into a Seven Eleven and buy a pack of cigarettes. He came out tapping the pack, looked up, saw her, gave a sheepish grin, and walked down the street. "Well, damn, Jen, w...

Natural Beauty Pt. 02

by sarobah on Nov 6, 2018
Exhibitionist & Voyeur

I awoke to a chorus of songbirds. Sunrise was just getting started behind the ridge at the rear of the hotel. Regatta Bay was still shrouded in darkness; scattered clouds glowed pink and orange in the indigo sky; a sallow near-full moon was sinking in the west. I imbibed the clean, crisp, salty air. I love that lonely, tranquil time when the night's reign is...

Collecting Bottles, Cans & Friends

by SusanJillParker on Sep 19, 2017
Novels and Novellas

This is an Earth Day contest story. Please vote. Homeless and destitute, prostituting herself for money to survive, a woman collects bottles and cans, while making friends. * "Hi," said the man to Susan passing by her in the alleyway, while staring. Accustomed to men staring at her, such an unusual sight to behold, men don't normally see a woman who loo...

Total Woman Bluewater Maiden

by bhuff on Jun 2, 2020
Novels and Novellas

Sunday - All Aboard Dawn's Early Light Ophelia wakened slowly in the yacht cabin and stretched her arms above her head with a wide yawn. A single sheet covered her naked body, mounded over her generous breasts. The ship was tied up securely to the dock in their home port. Restless wavelets washed gently against the hull. The early morning birds chirped to...

A Farewell to Arms

by dtiverson on Sep 25, 2017
Loving Wives

I've leveraged the Hemingway canon for a few of my stories. And A Farewell to Arms is the only one left now. That is the definitive war novel; as iconic as The Red Badge of Courage. I was hesitant to try to cover it because we don't fight wars like that anymore. But my pal Richard Gerald talked me into at least looking at it. And in the end I saw that the...

Billie's Writing Status Soars

by EgmontGrigor2019 on Jun 4, 2019
Novels and Novellas

Chapter 1 Casper and Janice Summers tried to do everything down the middle with Connor and Billie, their blue-eyed blonde twins, to avoid having favorites or at least showing favoritism, and that policy lasted till college time. The Summer's ranch had been hit by drought, two dry years in a row. As a consequence, for the first time in eighteen years of the...

A Hard Man

by SW_MO_Hermit on Sep 18, 2017
Romance

Jess Simpson walked out of the county jail into bright sunlight. He stopped and squinted his eyes against the suns glare. It was just past 11 p.m. and already sweltering hot. He watched the heat waves rise from the hot asphalt street in front of him. The grass was already dry and brown looking in the summer heat. Jess looked in the small parking lot beside...

Trust Me

by coaster2 on Sep 25, 2017
Loving Wives

Author's Note: I was both surprised and flattered to be invited to participate in the "Legends" contribution for the July 4th holiday. Although I am a "Canuck," and often write stories based in Canada, I chose to use the USA as a setting for this yarn. This is not a hard core Loving Wives contribution, but it is typical of my type of story. I hope some of yo...

Westry Bay

by oggbashan on Sep 15, 2017
Sci-Fi & Fantasy

************************************************* Copyright Oggbashan August 2016 The author asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work. This is a work of fiction. The events described here are imaginary; the settings and characters are fictitious and are not intended to represent specific places or living persons. This is a fant...

The Visitor

by SeekingSanity on Sep 14, 2017
Sci-Fi & Fantasy

When Barbara woke up she assumed it would be a day pretty much like every other day. It was a Wednesday, the middle of the work week. Where most people tend to say they hate Mondays it was always Wednesdays that Barbara liked the least. It seemed somehow unfair to her that after busting her butt for two days she still had three more days to go. Mondays were...