Die Lage in der südamerikanischen Republik war eigentlich seit ihrer Unabhängigkeit von Großbritannien vor über 70 Jahren im Vergleich zu den angrenzenden Nachbarländern stets ruhig gewesen, aber seitdem die Russen massiv versuchten die amtierende Regierung zu untergraben und durch Mitglieder einer auf dem Papier kommunistischen Rebellentruppe zu ersetzen, u...
Ring! Ring! Ring! My alarm goes off and I wake up and get up off the bed I was sleeping in only to realize that today is my 19th birthday so I am wondering what my family got me for my birthday. I hope it good compared to other years where they always get me what I ask for which is usually video games which I love for awhile until I get bored. So while I do...
Note- This is a work of fiction and anything resembling real events is a complete coincidence. xxx London, February 28th, 2018. Emma Watson looked out of the window of her North West London apartment and gave a heavy sigh. In the background the television weatherman told of the 'Beast of the East' which was a blast of freezing Siberian air that had hit t...
*Author's note: I recently wrote a story entitled If Things Were Different about an attractive female Marine first sergeant who fell in love with a younger, male Marine officer. I mentioned that unlike the Army, Marine first sergeants are never, ever referred to as 'Top'. Marine master sergeants, however, are affectionately called 'Top'. There are too many...
Keisha Jackson rearranged the few brightly wrapped presents in the trunk of her old SUV to make way for her daughter's wheelchair. How could something so small be so bulky and heavy? "How was choir practice tonight, my sweet angel?" she asked as she worked to get it in around the presents that she had picked from the charity while Breanne was at church. Ir...
Chapter 8: Postscript About a week after we got back from the weekend at the river on Bob's boat Marijean came up to me before school started. "Have you seen the paper today," she said, "Our friend Bob has been prompted. Mr. Harris made him Assistant District Superintendent yesterday." "Who is Mr. Harris," I asked? "Thomas J. Harris, the superintendent of...
We made our way back to the cabin, then Susan went back out to the creek to get some of the canned drinks she had put in the creek to cool. No sooner had she left than I grabbed her medical kit and found a bottle of aspirin. I shook two out, then as a blinding bolt of pain went through my head, shook out two more, then another. I dry-swallowed all five pill...
Joy to the World playing softly in the background, Christmas was definitely in the air in this small corner of sunny Florida. A large, finely adorned Christmas tree blinked its lights from the corner of the Italian café despite the soft morning light of Boxing Day. Traditional holiday and Italian flavors mixed and floated from the kitchen and caused mouths t...
Julie was completely humiliated. She was a senior in college on full scholarship, achieving high honors, and already accepted to three schools, one of them Ivy League, for graduate work. Yet the only job she could find over the Christmas break was dressing up as one of Santa's elves in a mall. Flipping burgers would be better than dealing with those snot-nos...
If Lexi Mariner hadn't been so drunk she never would have set the cupid trap and never would have caught the cupid, but she had been drunk—slurry and piss-on-the-world drunk—and her friend Jenna the self-styled Witch hadn't wanted to talk to her on the phone at 11:30 PM about what Lexi should do with Ross Endicot, not when Lexi was in one of her moods, and n...