Executive Privilege Ch. 04 The New Executives The author gratefully acknowledges the editorial assistance of WhiteWave48. These installments build on character development and a theme or plot. To enhance your personal enjoyment of this installment, the reader is encouraged to first read Executive Privilege Ch. 01 - The Arrangement. The New Executives T...
Political intrigue abounds, work on a yacht. A senator plots against Liramor-23, Liea and Raymond get a ship to convert. Because of the amount of abbreviations in this story, I include a glossary: Adm. Admiral, naval rank (see Cmdr.) - above a captain Capt. Captain, in this series a naval rank - usually a ship's commander CCO Chief Communications O...
Staff in the aristocratic town homes along Scoone Avenue traditionally get Sundays and Wednesday afternoons off. This, naturally, leads to a great increase in trade on those days in the various pubs, bars and takeaways in the surrounding neighborhood. Down the avenue and across Water Bridge from "The Fronts" of Unseen University lies the Patrician's Purse, a...
Chapter 1: Captured Cannons fired all along the ship as I ran across the under deck of the ship. Our ship's cannons were good but not enough. The captain of the ship was a blasted idiot and hadn't even waited until the ship's starboard side cannons were lined up with the pirate ship that had come upon us. It had come completely out of nowhere, out of a fog...
My name is Matt, I am a 6’0’’ senior at State University. After a hard break up with my long-term girlfriend this summer I was looking forward to going back to school. Being a senior I got a double single to live in giving me plenty of privacy as well as enough room to make a nice little pad to live in. The only draw back to the building that I am living in...
To the reader: This novella comprises 18,000 words (35 book pages) and 5 chapters (All published here). At the time this story occurs, all characters are age 18 or older. That guy scared the shit out of me, particularly later when I learned he was Carlos Espino and he'd made his fortune wholesaling H to the dumb-ass wealthies in Los Angeles and San Fra...
XXXIBritain Means BusinessAlex2027 It wasn't often that the chief shareholders of Reuters-Fox UK ever chose to address the senior staff, but the celebration following the landslide General Election victory for the Conservatives was a special occasion. It clearly deserved the attendance of those whose wealth financed the loss-making news media empire and who...
Alex couldn't take it much longer. She'd only been there for two weeks, but the scullery is no place to be. She seemed to be assigned there during all the peak hours. She knew she was being punished; her poor work ethic in Deck and her incident with Watson all amounted to this. She couldn't take it much longer; she realized how savage and ill mannered her fe...
They were standing in an outer office, Sister Claire and Mother Mary, waiting for their appointment. Claire was nervous and excited. She understood that her performance in this meeting would really count towards her future in the Order of the Mount. More important was that she did not disappoint Mother Mary. Claire tried to remind herself that she alone was...
It was like clockwork that come 11 a.m. unless the weather was really bad, the little elderly lady at the far end of the cul-de-sac would be outside puttering around by the mailbox waiting for the mailman or woman. It had been that way for four years since her husband had passed that Emily Foster would go out and greet the mail person, often armed with a hom...