Chapter 1: "Sporty's" Secret Revealed The Spice girls were halfway through recording their debut single, and as progress was going well on their first album too, the record company had given them the day off. The girls all liked to spend their free time on their own, to catch up with family and other friends away from the band. Geri had gone home to visit...
This is a Halloween contest story. Too many readers don't vote. Please vote. I need the support of your vote. Couple uses Halloween to scare one another. * "It's Halloween night, fright night, Roger. Let's do something scary," said Anne to her boyfriend with a foreboding look. "Scary? You can't scare me, Anne. Been there, done that, I've seen it all and...
The kiss was Chianti-induced or maybe it was really vinyl-induced. "Beatles or Oasis?" he inquired lifting his smoky grey eyes to mine over his glass of Chianti. "Beatles, any day, any time," I answered as he slipped the pristine record from its sleeve and placed it on the record player. The Beatles always cleanse my soul. Everyone needs a little Beatles...
"A surfeiting of terror soon makes terror a cliché." -Richard Matheson, "I Am Legend" *** Dora's ghost and Jill's ghost left the basement at midnight, dragging chains all the way up the apartment building's thirteen floors. The chains were Dora's idea. "If we're going to haunt people, we should have chains," she said. Jill thought it was silly, but she di...
This is a very dark little opus, and fairly short vs what I had originally conceived. (For those of you concerned with such things, I get a lot of inspiration from dreams and those just-before-sleep / just-before-waking periods. This is in Loving Wives because that's where many such stories go; but, it has an exceptionally strong Fantasy component. If time...
Inspired by real life events! Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun. Orbiting this at a distance of roughly ninety-two million miles is an utterly insignificant little blue-green planet whose ape-descended life forms are so amazingly primitive that they still t...
An undead fiend slumbers in her ancient tomb, waiting for a foolish mortal to awaken her so she can return to haunt the living once more. On a dark, stormy night, a mad scientist is playing God, trying to create new life out of a blasphemous mixture of alchemy and science. And somewhere in the void of deep space, an alien horror that should not exist waits a...
Chapter 2: Not So "Posh" After All Victoria was totally stunned at the sudden outburst of the two Mels, she thought they were her friends and she not only felt hurt, but also a sense of betrayal. "I thought you were my friends," she muttered, her voice quivering as she fought to hold back the tears. Mel B reached out a hand to comfort her and put it on her...
It was Halloween night and Temperance was on her way over her friend Angela's house. Her and her friends where having a little get together. Being 18 was to old to celebrate Halloween, but they still liked to have their fun. Temperance walked up to the house caring a bag full of scary movies. She knocked on the door then waited shivering in the cold. Angel...
Seventy-four-year-old author Sandra Grant discusses her debut short-story collection, which focuses on the sex lives and intimate relationships of characters in their 60s and 70s. JOHN WAYNE, HOST: This is POINT NETWORK. I'm John Wayne. There are some graphic sex scenes in Sandra Grant's new collection of short stories, "Scary Old Sex." But they're mostl...