To the west of Olympus, well beyond the fringes of the city, sat the Hall of Artemis at the edge of a dense wood. Unlike much of the other stone and marble architecture Mega-Girl had seen in the city, the hall was constructed mainly of wood. The building was simple but long, flanked all around by subordinate structures like a stable, hound pens, and what Meg...
The science building at Gateway City University was usually a very busy place, so it felt strange to Travis to walk its halls and find it completely empty. Not that he expected anything else at five o'clock on a Tuesday morning. Rounding a corner and entering one of the many small labs provided for private study, he found Penny already waiting for him as she...
Back when I was in college, I met a gorgeous young girl at an outdoor Jazz Festival in my home town at the end of Summer, just a few weeks before I would return for my senior year at the university in the opposite end of the state. As Stanley Turrentine honked some righteous riffs on his sax, I spotted an exceptionally tall, slender blonde standing some 75 f...
As if your vote is my applause, please vote. There are no underage characters in this story. All characters portrayed are over the age of 18-years-old. * Lord Dudley secretly lusts over Susan, his Head Cook, from afar. Continued from Chapter 01: He remembered his first glimpse of Susan as if it were yesterday, instead of it being years ago. For him to r...
I've submitted this for the 2019 Valentine's Day Story Contest. Your votes will be much appreciated. * Walking alone on a South Jersey beach on Valentine's Day weekend is the last thing Oliver Starr had expected. The location's right—he and Becky had made plans over a year ago to come here at this time. Yet now she's gone, taken by the cancer that months...
"They've gone!" Miranda could hardly control her excitement. She burst into the dormitory, pushing a chair under the door handle by habit. "I don't think Nurse Bishop believed it for a moment, but she signed my note, and Forsdyke accepted it like a lamb." Miranda stood at the window, looking down the drive. She said: "you better pass your clarinet exam,...
'If we don't end up killing each other this band has endless possibilities.' - Richey Osgood, NME, 1989. * Having put in place the measures that would hopefully take the band forward into the Nineties, Richey took one further step towards conformity. The photographs that arrived in the post in August 1989 depicted Richey in a grey morning suit and the new...
Chapter 3 now. Vote, comment and let me know how you liked it. Thanks to estragon for copy edits, KatieTay for content edits and my beta readers SamanthaYvonne and the very special damppanties. "Long ago it must be I have a photograph Preserve your memories They're all that's left you" - Bookends, Simon & Garfunkel * * An eight-hour work day was...
Edited by Spencerfiction with thanks. ***** Chapter 12 Lynn, Will and Amanda were out by the pool soaking in the last of the day's rays. "How was your date with Stephen the weekend, Lynn? Bowling? Maybe lawn darts this time?" Amanda asked. "Dinner and art gallery." "That sounds lovely." "Soooo fucking boring." Lynn grinned at Amanda who smiled back. "D...
Hello my lovelies. This story haunted me until I finally started to write it down. I will post the next chapter very soon, but since it is long with a gradual build up (it will be worth it), I thought it made sense to break it up a bit. One quick note: we flash back to when some of these characters are very young. But before anyone reads too quickly and...