The fire crackled in the cabin's stone hearth. The logs whistled as the moisture steamed. The seasoned firewood stack had been covered with a late season snow. The fire now transformed the clinging ice to vapor as it consumed the wood. Wynn and Marcy had cross country skied to the Total Woman Excursions' timberland cabin arriving late in the afternoon. Earl...
The birth of her first child could not have been any better. Actually. According to newspaper reports by the boulevard press Duchess Kaye gave birth to her son completely without palliative painkillers in a natural way. Of course they couldn't keep it as a secret: While the 31 year-old Kaye flew with her famous husband, also 31 years old, and the new born...
We ambled aimlessly through the soft, crystalline blanket of white. The dreamy shroud of night obscured our visual perception, nevertheless, heightening our hearing. The rhythmic whoosh of water crashing against rocks soothed us. Brandon had finally shown me his secret place--the kind of place where people searched their souls, heightened their perceptions,...
My name is Miss Esther Summerson. If you have read Mr Charles Dickens' novel Bleak House you will have heard of me and the other principal characters in this text. His story is largely true but I blush to think how he exaggerated the goodness of my character beyond any benignity I can truly claim. I am writing this to shed light upon an aspect of the story w...
The TARDIS landed with a crunch and the Doctor looked concerned. 'What's the matter girl? What's wrong?' He frowned. 'Let's have a rest here shall we? Speaking of which- where is here?' He grabbed his coat and moved to the door. It had been three months since Martha had left him. After everything that had happened, she'd gone. She couldn't leave everyone a...
Author's Note: Finally back, this is my first attempt at a solo story in a while after writing with friends during some tough times. Feeling inspired for the first time in a long time. As with all my stories, all characters are eighteen years of age or older. --- He sits quietly in the corner of the room, relaxed against the back of the arm chair as his ey...
This is a fantasy for those over 18. It is not true, the characters don't exist. * Her sub was tied diagonally to the king sized bed. Hands stretched above his head. Feet tied to the opposite corner so she could have his six foot, frame displayed for her pleasure. Mistress Crystal had made his blue eyes irrelevant with black silk wrapped tightly around hi...
London would be our first and last stop on a summer vacation traveling through Europe. The trip was fantastic! The beaches were sandy and entertaining in the South, the mountains in the center breathtaking, and the fjords in the north spectacular! Now it was time to head home. We had a few hours to kill so we wandered from store to store in the duty free are...
Master Orlaigh lifted his eyes from the papers on his desk and looked out of his study window. For some reason, he was struggling to concentrate this afternoon. As chief mage to the court of King Taral Shadowbane, Orlaigh was tasked with many things. Lately, his main concern had been the school for nobles that the King had put him in charge of. For too lon...
The last few days it had grown cold long before sunset. I could feel the end. THE end. The end of my life. The end of all our lives. The feeling of emending doom increased with every second. We had been running for three months and only now did we start to lose this game of cat and mouse. I was beginning to believe that the only reason we made it this far...