Friday, February 14, 1975 He knew that he should have ignored the page but being a "go-to guy" in his department had afforded him preferential scheduling of service calls around his classes at UCLA all these years. When he had found a pay phone and called into dispatch the service call that he was assigned turned out to be on the way home, and from the d...
It's a fact of life that you never have as much money as you think you should have. No matter how confident you are in your budget, there are always additional expenses that pop up seemingly out of nowhere. If you have kids or pets or a car, the problem is exacerbated. If you're a single mum with a cat, an eight year old car and a thirteen year old son, life...
May 7th Sara Wood lived in darkest shadowlands, and she kept to her shadows -- lived to blend in, to disappear; if caught in light of day, she simply faded away into the pale warrens of the city. Sara Wood was an expert in the fine art of disappearance, of camouflage, of falling through cracks in the few systems left to deal with girls of her sort: homeless...
(co)Author's note: A few months ago I wrote a story that led to a fruitful correspondence with fellow authors Friskee_cpl. When we discovered we have similar tastes and styles, they were kind enough to propose a collaboration on a story idea they'd been considering. Needless to say, I jumped at the chance. Below is the result of the artistic coupling of the...
Y'ello people, happy New Year! I know this is waayy over due but I had a bit of writers block for a couple weeks that finally cleared. Without further ado is that how you say it? (Further ado whatever) anyway here is the continuation of Only One For Them. Don't forget to comment and rate J * Sean sat up in bed, sweat dripping from his body as he tried to s...
Blood is thicker than water, a phrase that is supposed to bind families together. An interesting concept don't you think? Todger65 was the editor for this story, I liked his work so much I asked if he would edit this one for me as well. I do hope you enjoy your read. ***** It had taken twenty six years for me to finally say my life was my own and I was dam...
~~Eric~~ Fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck. He clutched the small woman against his body, tight enough so he could keep running, but there was no hiding that she was bleeding on him. Her blood was soaking through his suit and onto his skin. Each labored breath he took filled his lungs with the smell of it; and the smell was so damn famliar. Blood, life, from this...
A note from AfterDusk: This story is a submission for the Valentine's Day Contest--please read and vote if you like! Thanks! -AD Wednesday, February 14th It was a Wednesday at 7:04 pm and I was already feeling the buzz of alcohol in my veins; I will never forget that moment as it was the one that changed my life permanently. The bartender, some douche fr...
Hi all! So this one has been a long time coming. I would like to formally apologize for the incredibly long wait on this. I started writing this in January of 2017. When the real world got in the way, I had to make a choice to take a break from this to work on my other series, and the delays kept piling on. By the time I sat down to finish it earlier this y...
When you spend forty to fifty weeks out of a year traveling for business, you try to work in a little vacation whenever circumstances permit. August of 2010 was one of those times. I had to participate in a symposium on technical certifications for the IT industry that was scheduled in Breckenridge, Colorado. The event in Breckenridge would run Tuesday thro...