*** CHAPTER EIGHT -- Machinations *all characters are over the age of eighteen years* *** ***SMYTHE -- Ironshire, Ekistair*** The morning of the day after Aran departed Ironshire, Smythe was on his way to visit an old friend. After all the intense training he'd put Aran through in the past three months, Smythe was in the mood for a relaxed, quiet c...
Chapter One Tom's heart started beating faster when he heard Jessica's footsteps coming up the front walk. The click of her boots was unmistakable. Jessica had recently started wearing knee-high black leather boots and when Tom first saw them on her he had been surprised and amused seeing them on his normally straight-laced and conservative wife. Knowing wh...
He was her modern day Romeo making every moment of her life the perfect story book moment down to a tee. Rodney used his money to buy Jacquline everything she could have ever wanted. She had never considered herself someone to be swept away by fancy gifts and overly expensive jewelry but she figured if the man could afford it then why not let herself be pamp...
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The author thanks SlaveGirl70 for inspiring and editing this story. This story contains straight sex between one man and one woman. ***** Kevin was motionless as he stared at the stapler at the back of his desk. The only indication of life was the occasional blink of his eyes and the rhythmic motion of his chest. A framed picture of a young woman in a fr...
I was bored. It doesn't sound very good, does it? No, I thought not, I wasn't too happy about it either. I had even gone to the hair salon yesterday and listened to silly womanly gossip just to be around people. It didn't help my feelings of loneliness but my red hair was now curly and shiny. I guess that was good. I had been in Oregon for six months now. I...
Nursing students discover a novel way to speed the healing process. "Diana Simmons" With her name announced Diana stepped forward and accepted the certificate that she had completed volunteer training at Mercy Hospital. Helen Tedder smiled as she handed out the paper. "Eleanor Simmons" Diana's sister stepped forward to get her certificate. "Now girls, y...
A story of how Alan and I reignited the flames of passion in our stale marriage. Alan and I were to soon "celebrate" our twenty-fifth anniversary. I put that in quotation marks for a reason – there really wasn't much to celebrate. Neither of us bothered to speak about it, much less make any special plans. I knew that he would order flowers for me and he kne...
-------------------------------------------------------------- "And this is why I sojourn here, alone and palely loitering, though the sedge is withered from the lake and no birds sing - the beautiful woman, without mercy has me in her thrall." "In vain we lavish out our lives, to gather empty wind; the choicest blessings earth can yield will starve a hung...
Hail and well met! I must apologize for having taken so long about getting Chapter Three posted for everyone's reading pleasure. I had to do a MAJOR rework on it and nearly had to write it completely over again since the file on my PC got corrupted and I could not find the manuscript. I really do appreciate all the votes and comments regarding my other works...