Chapter 3 The building where the gym was located seemed bright and cheerful. The picture she received from her contact did not do it justice and it made Ike uneasy. What if the contact was wrong, what if this girl was really training, what if she got hurt and it truly was an accident, she thought. The what if's were staggering. The further they walked into...
© Naoko Smith 2016 Grateful thanks to Bramblethorn, and to Bramblethorn's wife, for reading and commenting at very short notice on the story and helping out with suitable suggestions for young Victorian ladies' wardrobe items and sports activities. I had the idea for this story when I read on the Authors' Hangout that doctors used to use vibrators in Vict...
This is one of those stories contains elements that could fit into any number of categories, but it is first and foremost a romance story. The first part is told in the third person followed by first person accounts. As in many of my stories, the ending is hinted on fairly early on, but as usual, there is a twist. CM. Anthony Albrecht had it all. He had...
This is the final installment in my 'Promise' stories. If you have not already read "I Made a Promise" and "Keeping My Promise" I suggest you do so before reading this one. Hope you enjoy reading it as much as I did in writing it. ***** I was in the kitchen cleaning up after supper one evening when my seven year old daughter, Alison, came in carrying the...
"Penny?" This was her abbreviated version of the conversation inducing idiom. She knew something was on my mind and occupying my thoughts because of my uncharacteristic quietness today. We have always been very open with one another, and she knew how to coax me into vocalizing my reflections. "Hmm? Nothing." She knew better, though. She can read me like a...
My thanks to Todger65 for helping to edit chapter after chapter and Nthusiastic for beta reading and making suggestions! ***** Isonei's dreams were fractured and restless. Arguing with Lothlaerith about her confusion, trying to keep her father's house from filling with water, and being submerged and surrounded by fish with the faces of children from the...
Raj, Amy, and Bernadette were all gathered in Penny's apartment. "Thanks again for letting me crash girls' night," Raj said. Penny replied "Are you kidding? You brought fancy wine and made fondue. I've fucked guys for less." They all looked at her. "It's a joke." She looked down into her glass of wine. "Based on real events." Raj broke the award silenc...
John's POV I mentally kicked myself, I had revealed too much too fast and she hadn't taken it well. I got out, reaching under back seat and used the blankets from there to make a place for her to rest. She was shivering, probably a result of shock and the adrenaline crash from everything that had happened. I laid her down on the back seat and tucked her in...
A hot August night in 1969 found Ross Enzor and Marc Milner sitting in the outdoor lounge area of the Hotel Dennis. By then, it was still among Atlantic City's finer hotels. Yet, like AC itself, once the Grand Dame of the South Jersey Shore, it was showing its age. People who once patronized the place were taking their summer vacations elsewhere. Not that...
Ella's POV Previous Day I watched Jacob and Kelsey leave, a pit forming in my stomach. I had been watching Rose, she didn't think it was a good idea and it wasn't. "Rose, you're not even asking this of Gunny. It's a horrible idea." "Why? Isn't it good for the Pack to have more children?" "Yes, but not this way. Mated pairs are sacred, and something like...