*ALEX* I sauntered into the city library with a few friends. As soon as I walked in, the hush-hush atmosphere fell upon me like a ton of bricks. I guess it was probably all the conditioning I experienced as a child. Strangely, my friends had seemed unaffected. They continued talking and laughing like we were still out on the busy street. A few customers gav...
She sat at the bar sipping her martini, slowly surveying the crowd at the popular downtown bar. There were the usual suspects - men out to just enjoy a beer and play a little pool, scantily clad women hoping to draw their attention away from the beer and pool, and the men on the prowl. One such man drew her attention. He was sitting at a table across the roo...
Cindy was a little upset. She had given orders for lots of work to get done on the ranch, and right now she could not find either of her ranch hands. She went looking for them, intent on setting them straight on just what their duties were. "I guess maybe I should have hired somebody willing to work, not just hired them because they were young, strong, and...
Nick the Necromancer slowly walked through Saint Morgan Hospital's morgue like a kid in a candy store. Opening the glossy cover, she flipped to the passage in the book, You Can Raise the Dead Too, about choosing the right body. "Someone who died without completing something in life is the best, however anyone intact will do." "Alright," Nick said to the gr...
Although it's late April, I can feel the cold deep in my bones. Well, when I stop to ponder this fact, I realize that it's not so much cold as it is damp. As I stop momentarily just inside the door to let my eyes adjust to the ambient light, I quickly scan the room. Most of the room's inhabitants are gathered along the bar, sitting and talking or sipping fro...
The day started out like any other day.........wake up, shower, dress, and head to work. Of course work is always busy and mind numbing. Throughout your day you handle miscellaneous calls and emails that come thru your desk. Then it's lunchtime. You decide to have lunch out of the office to get some air. Upon returning to your desk after lunch you see that a...
A lot of me went into this story. A lot of it is true. Back in the late fifties, western Montana was a wild place to be and the girls were just as wild as the country. I guess I just want to remember almost how it was. Ironworker He slid down the steel column from the third deck to the ground. Quitting time! His favorite time of day. "See ya tomorrow, John...
John worked hard during the week as a roofer. He was outside most of the time, so had a dark brown tan to most of his body. When the week was finished, he liked to cash his check and go to the Win Place and Show to dance and have a few beers. He would unwind and if he was lucky, and he usually was, he would find a lovely cowgirl to dance with and take home....
The Christmas dinner.........Real beginnings. She awoke as usual at 6.30 am to the sound of the radio. She lay there for a few seconds, coming to suddenly, as she realised that today was the day she was at last going to meet Ken. Ken was her internet friend, they had know each other online for at least a year, becoming closer over the last few months, and...
Rebecca was assigned a new co-op student from the local university, when she called him to welcome him set up their meeting time, he shared with her that he was in an Ethics class she taught for undergrads at the university a year before. Caleb sounded friendly and upbeat, she faintly remembered him but she recalled him being thin and a little nerdy. Rebec...