Chapter 2: Getting In The Groove I'd been on the farm about two weeks when it started to come naturally to me. All the classroom work was nothing compared to feeling it first-hand, and back, and shoulders, and legs... I was so tired and sore that first week I thought I would die, and I was used to hard work in football and weight training! I'll never forget...
I called in sick to my construction job to go job hunting. I'd been at it for a couple of hours with little success, early August is apparently not prime hiring season in my small beach town. Sitting at a bus stop, smoking a cigarette and waiting for a ride down to the next commercial area to continue my search, she walked past me. The bus stop was in front...
Gary was pissed off as the foreman informed him that he would be traveling to Auckland with two of the reps for their company to fix some chairs at a school in Auckland. They were leaving straight away as the school's headmistress had been on the phone complaining several times already. Gary had tried to get out of it but the foreman wouldn't take no for an...
It was a rainy morning. That didn't stop Tuya from mounting her horse and going on with her retinue of girls. Someone had reported something frightening, and everyone else was busy. Her mother was busy in her bedchamber, possibly washing her hair or getting ready for a bath. The Emperor was busy in his bedchamber with his new wife, possibly having a nice...
Shortly after I turned thirty-nine my mother died suddenly of a coronary thrombosis. Dad had died seven years earlier. So since my brother Kenny, a journalist and my only sibling, was living in London at the time, and my daughter was in her second year of college, I was left alone with the task of going through my mother's things and deciding what should be...
This is a rewrite of 'Vegas', combining both Books. While maintaining the theme, it offers a completely different and fresh take for the main characters. Grateful thanks go to the best editor in the world -- thesoundandfury - not only for his editing, but also for the constant encouragement, suggestions, and for helping me to become a better writer. Chapte...
I have always fantasized about seeing my wife with other men, but I knew that would never happen because my wife, Carol, was raised in a small town in the South. Carol's father was a minister in a small church and her mother was a member of every little town group there was. According to her father, Carol was a sheltered girl and never even went out to play...
Daylight found the princess alone once again, and another grand breakfast awaited her. The princess discovered she was ravenous, and quickly devoured a portion of grapes, before sampling some soft cheeses and breads. When she had sated her hunger, she again busied herself about her chambers, perusing her lovely selection of wonderful gowns. Though she sele...
"Is that tattooed bitch awake," the female voice asked. "I'm not sure," Tyler replied. "Well find out," the female voice snapped back. Alex couldn't see in the dark. She knew the tape had fallen off her eyes, but not her mouth. She heard the woman's heels click as they approached her. Suddenly a beam of light appeared and shone upon her face. She could ba...
The sun beat hot on the narrow path which wound through the fresh spring garden like a cobbled stream. Victor thought there would have been more people on the garden tour on a day like today, but he hadn't seen a single soul since he had parked his old beater about a mile back. As he walked, he saw a small placid pond choked with leaves fallen from a gatheri...