"Excellent!" Damien said, standing up. He turned around, offering a hand to Casey. She stared at it like it was a foreign object. Finally, Eric pushed gently against her back, forcing her forward so that she had to grab Damien's hand to keep her balance and stand up. This was it. The point of no return. Like a sleepwalker, Casey let Damien lead her by her h...
(More of Chloe's unwilling participation in a crazed scientist's experiments involving human/alien reproduction) Chapter 3 The rest of the week passed quickly for Chloe. She went to as many tutorials and lectures that were scheduled plus also spent almost all of Thursday night in the library researching a presentation she had to give on Geriatric and Palli...
I was watching the ball game when the phone rang. "Hello," I mumbled, half annoyed at the interruption. "Daddy please come and get me," my daughter sobbed into the phone. "Where are you baby and where's your date?" "I'm at the hospital daddy. I've been raped!" "I'll be right there!" I shouted into the phone. I shot out the door like a rocket and head...
Brad and Luke knocked on the door of their friend Sara's new apartment. She had asked them to help move her in the previous day. It was hard work, but the two men were rewarded at the end to come back the next day to their friends home to a small house warming party. The boys had decided to carpool on the way over, and decided they'd take bets later on who w...
The sun was in half stride to the top of the sky, And Xulatiki stood proudly, his purple cloak billowing around his perfect body in his first year of full manhood. His eyes, and, indeed, the eyes of all those about him, all of the woman of the empire who were able to walk or find someone to carry them to this place, were focused at the top of the smoking sac...
Author's Note: This is a quick little case meant to be read between "The Nightlife Case" and "Case of the Curse" in the Marly Jackson series. __________________________ I came back to Chicago from L.A. a broken woman. I'd left, Marly Jackson, P.I., a woman out to right past wrongs and make a decent buck, and returned home a murder suspect with more skelet...
Alex strutted up to the bouncer at the club entrance as the line started to wind down to him. The bouncer looked at him sideways taking in his appearance. Alex stood still and crossed his arms over his chest, used to it. The security guy took in his very masculine appearance. His dark baggy jeans were tucked behind the tongues of his red basketball shoes. Yo...
Claire stared at her black patent leather Mary James against the stark white marble tiles that seemed to stretch from beneath her feet to the ceiling. His words echoed off the cold walls but her heart was pounding so loudly in her chest that she barely heard them. Until his hands on her shoulders pushed her down to sit upon the edge of the tub. He shook hi...
4 Sabrina glided on to the set, warmed by the reactions of the other members of the cast. She prided herself on being someone who quickly got the measure of other people and she was pretty sure she'd got the measure of Brock, Paul and Lori. Firstly there was Brock who having hailed from daytime soapie world would, no doubt, overact in that patented style. S...
I met him the dumbest way possible. An online role playing war game. For months all I saw was an avatar that cracked jokes and led armies. Soon we figured out that using a chat application was a more efficient way to communicate so we all downloaded it. I saw his face for the first time when we all decided to put pictures of ourselves as our profile pictures...