He was burning nag champa incense. The musky and heady fragrance was familiar and pleasing and helped me relax a bit. But there was something else, rose perhaps? Yes, it was definitely rose. That made sense, because I remembered that he said rose incense arouses feelings of love and sensuality. The quiet strains of traditional Indian music wafted through t...
'I wasn't always like this,' it occurred to her as she sat naked, on the pool table in the dingy back room of the bar, the yellow light from the dangling overhead lamp gleaming in the eyes of the black men surrounding her. Out of the corner of her eye, she noticed her bag lying on the pool table near to her, and thought, inside that bag is her license, her...
Lyeo strolled down the main thoroughfare towards the middle of the Floral Quarter. The streets were still lined with flower sellers stalls although where the blooms came from in these difficult times He really had no notion. Life in Drox was full of puzzles, an international city of such beauty and vibrancy that even the shadow of war couldn't darken its buo...
One also rather interesting conquest was with a lady a few years older than myself. Heather was the laboratory supervisor at one of the factories where I regularly made deliveries. Now when I say delivery, my particular truck at the time was a bulk food grade liquids tanker, the nature of which required product testing prior to discharge being authorised et...
"Damn it to hell!" she shouted as she burst in the door. Julie was so angry she didn't care she just broke the door with her slam. Julie tried to get the door closed and made it worse. Now the damn thing wouldn't close at all and he was going to have to fix it she thought. Its all his fault anyway, if he hadn't said that then she wouldn't have been so mad...
Chapter 3. The Cold Winds of Gallifrey Night time, Gallifrey slept. Quietly I slipped from her arms and sliding my feet into soft carpet slippers tiptoed naked to the console. Habits are hard to break after seeming centuries of endless repetition. The universe summoned from the liquid screens and my eyes traveled from headline to headline searching out a...
We got together the following Wednesday, Jeff's birthday, July 24. My guy was nineteen. I'm sure you understood the reference to his birthday as a shortcut. We got together every day. The way I saw it, I probably had only fifty to seventy years left to live, so we couldn't afford to waste a minute. Jeff picked The Rose Tattoo again. What can I say? He like...
All was quiet when she got to grandma's house—unnaturally quiet; the birds weren't chirping, the wind wasn't blowing...nothing was stirring. The world seemed to have stopped. She knocked on the door. "Who's there?" came a deep, raspy voice, one that Red barely recognized. She suddenly felt guilty at the fact that it had been too long since her last visit....
Logan pulled out a chair for me and I literally plopped myself down, thankful that I didn't miss my footing. My hands were shaking so badly that I had to place them in my lap. I slowly bent my head down and peered at him. I was afraid to let him see my face which was masked with confusion. He cleared his throat and we both said each other's name at the same...
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