A little more than a year ago my husband Mark and I bought a small 10 acre farm. I had always had a dream of operating an organic vegetable farm since I had studied botany as an undergraduate. It was my dream, but it was never Mark's. Mark was very much the corporate type and had a very successful career in pharmaceutical product development. He was a workah...
[Back in 2013-14, I wrote a series of stories based on an international spy agency full of women who were prone to losing their clothing. I had to take a break due to personal reasons. This is my attempt to kickstart things off again. Dress Off 0 follows on from the events in the flashback in Dress Off 4. Tanya Munro and Sarah Lowell, having escaped from Eli...
Steve Williams and Jennifer Knight have been best friends for as long as they could remember. They lived across the street from each other and have grown up together. They have been in school together since the first grade and are now both 18 and will be going into their senior year of high school once the summer is over. Jennifer was the typical girl next...
INITIATIONS Many threads to tie up, so please be patient with me, there'll be some fun in the course of the story. Please consult the previous episodes and the Vicar of St. Dunstan's Guide for more background on the characters. It was dusk in the open spaces of Western Kansas. It's my favorite time of day on the family ranch: sitting on the hill next to...
Prologue "Hey Eric, I'm inviting a few people over to my place for the Patriots Broncos game. Would you like to come?" Eric was a little surprised at the invitation. He enjoyed working with Brittany and found her attractive, but she was one of the shyest almost standoffish people he had ever met. Eric had worked for the company for about a year; Brittany h...
Yagaritte, pressed herself against the other side of the door, her forehead resting against the cool wood, one hand up against it. She closed her eyes, sighing. She didn't want to kick him out, didn't want him to go back out into the cold, but... what he had done was wrong, and a gross violation of her privacy, which she took very much seriously. This was PR...
“What are you thinking about, luv?” Spike pulled Willow onto his lap, brushing stray pieces of hair from her face. “Nothing.” “Don’t try to fob me off with a ‘nothing’, pet. I know how you think, know when you’re upset. Now tell me what’s goin’ on in that head of yours.” She sighed. “Spike.” “Yes. . .?’ “No, I’m thinking about Spike.” Spike smirked. “...
Angie Lynn sighed when she heard the back screen door slam close. "Thank God," she whispered to herself as she closed her eyes. Alone at last. The walls of that tiny house were so confining, especially in the heat of summer. They say heat expands and cold contracts, but it seems just the opposite is true. In the sweltering dog days of summer, the world clo...
(This story interlocks with each chapter so if you come into this story other than the beginning, then you may well scratch your head at some of the comments within this chapter. I've tried to make this a glimpse into the lives and lifestyle of three people. They chose to keep there lives private, isn't it strange how life never lets that happen.) I cou...
*** Now it was time for Leif and Lynne to be the object of teasing that someone was inflicting. Not just in private between the two of them with hushed whispers. "Now it's time for a little entertainment," said his brother Lyle. Leif was shocked to see Matthew and Janelle come up to the stage. Janelle donned a long brown silky wig, an exaggerated version...