Like a carefully-planned military operation, the play for the lot started with stealth. The word on the street was that the hotel was about to go into bankruptcy if it couldn't be sold. The owners were desperate. Nuszsaecker wanted to low-ball the owners and get the hotel on the cheap. Deidre, knowing it would be paid for with Nuszsaecker's money, pushed giv...
"I have connections. Believe me. DO WHAT I SAY." "Shut your pie holes, you two,' growled the driver. All of Salt's systems shut down for the first 24 hours in jail. She couldn't understand why her mother didn't come get her. She didn't eat or drink. If she could have helped it she wouldn't have breathed or peed, either. She just sat on the cement floor, ig...
My Dearest Marita: I hope you don't think it obsessive that I write these chronologies of the budding of our relationship. The human memory will dull over time and I want to recreate as accurately as possible the memories that I have always regarded as some of the most special and tender moments of my life. Please read the following and see if it comports...
The first chapter on Nigella Lawson was published earlier. Chapter 2: Sweet Nigella My agent called to tell he had a bodyguard job for me. I told him I was not interested because I hadn't done it for years and I was more in movie security now. He said that it was for one week only, it paid well, and it was for a British lady. "Why me?" "You did a bodygu...
All characters are over 18. The envelope sat neatly centered on his desk, his name inscribed on the creamy paper in delicate calligraphy. Roger lowered himself into his chair, his eyes shifting left and right before they returned to his desk He pressed a button on his phone and said, "Debbie, did I have any visitors while I was at lunch?" "No, Mr. Travers,...
The cabin is on top of a hill, miles from everything. The sun, which has burned down all day, is gone, and has been replaced by a full moon. A moon, so bright and intense, that it seems to be giving off a heat of it's own. Moonlight floods into my room through the skylight and open window, where the sheer white curtains flutter, as a tepid breeze flows in. T...
On the trip home from Maine, Susan's mind was chaotic, flitting from one subject to another. She enjoyed the freedom and sexual titillation of exposing herself as they rode along the highway, but, while she did so, she was thinking of a multitude of things. She was bubbling inside thinking of telling Jim that she was pregnant, knowing that he would share her...
Samus ruffled the feathers on the head of the juvenile Dachora. It responded with an enthusiastic warble as it leaned its crown into the hunter's hand. Samus had just released it, along with the other animals she found at Biologics Research Station, in a federation owned wildlife preserve on a planet a few systems away. Even though she had just blew the X-Pa...
Copyright by d.s. That's my first story ever, I enjoyed the writing. I hope you enjoy the reading, constructive criticism always welcome. Please ignore the grammar as English is not my mother language. Part 1 (the rules) "Turn round and bend over, hamster." I tell her as Sandra gets off me. The cool morning air make me shiver, where only a second ago I fe...
Alex's life had turned upside down since the death of her husband. In fact, today marked the fourteenth month of his untimely death. Most deaths, perhaps, are untimely, but he was so young. It had been a trying year, watching helplessly as the lung cancer ravaged his body. It was unexpected because he didn't smoke, exercised regularly, and followed a vegetar...