Author's Note: Some scene's contain explicit violence and gore. * * * * * The entourage set out from the granite walls of The Majestic's stronghold towards the city proper. Six elite guards walked with weapons held ceremoniously before them and took flanking positions all around The Majestic's litter. Eight slaves covered in dark hemp robes manned the four...
Chapter 24 New Lives Tuesday, August 9th Alessa.... It was such a beautiful day in Southern California. There had been rain earlier during the week and now enough wind had arrived to remove most of the smog lying low on the water's horizon and it seemed like I could see all the way to China. I was gaining weight. I was gaining too much weigh to just...
Chapter 17 "I had a finger up my ass and it still wasn't good enough." Early morning, Thursday, July 26th Carrier USS Reagan, 280 miles west of Hawaii, Pacific Ocean Maria.... As I was being strapped into the back seat, Osborne went over the emergency procedures again. "I'm telling you, Colonel, when we shoot of the cat, it'll be like nothing else. Ev...
We were seeing them after almost 3 years now. A telephone really was a poor stand in for the close friendship we shared with Rehan & Sunitha when they stayed in Jamshedpur. Getting to Bangalore together with my wife had taken some planning and we eagerly looked forward to catch up on all the missing years. Oh! The joy on seeing Sunitha when she opened the...
"Got a light?" Melissa looked up as she was putting her lighter and cigarettes back into her small purse. Standing next to her at the bar was another young woman, maybe a couple years older than her own 22 years. The young woman was striking, with shoulder length, slightly curly red hair. Her face was nearly flawless, her lips full and pursed in a slight sm...
The weekend after we helped Jill move, my parents left for a cruise. My parents weren't rich by any means, but I had received a lot of scholarship money, Brian had his own job now, and Jill... Well Jill made a lot of friends and seemed to be pretty much independent. My parents never mentioned it, and neither did she, but I was pretty sure she was an escort o...
This story is a submission to the sixth Friendly Anonymous Writing Challenge (FAWC) and a tribute to the founder of FAWC, slyc_willie, who we lost unexpectedly in October 2015. The true author of this story is kept anonymous until the end of the competition. Authors base their story on a list of four items. Their choices included the following letters: S L Y...
Part 1 Chapter 1 The Trouble with Mathew As Mrs. Charlotte Ainsworth sat in her solicitor's office she thought how in the past this room with its shelves of law books, its few pieces of tasteful art and overstuffed furniture had been so comforting. She had spent many hours here getting her husbands affair in order after he died fighting the Germans in Fran...
Sheriff Benjermin Deane Petitte sat patiently in his squad car outside the rundown trailer that belonged to Debby Sanchez. It was a quarter till 2 in the morning, and Sheriff Petitte was certain Debby had already gone to bed, the entire trailer was awash in darkness. He continued to sit there however in his squad car, admiring the still calm of the night, fi...
It was a morning. Not the early morning of beautiful sunrises peeking at you from above the tops of mountains; not the kind you read about in romance novels. The kind of morning with just that certain gloom to it, what with the creepy, seemingly-blue fog and all, that just puts a damper in your day. Just another morning. This is how the first day of the res...