Did you ever have the feeling you're making a huge mistake and yet you couldn't stop it? Those were my exact thoughts as I packed for our Christmas vacation to a remote ski lodge. My wife and I planned this trip with the hopes of reviving our shaky marriage. As the date neared, our relationship kept getting worse with the only good news being we'd stopped ar...
No, I am not an avid skier, as a matter of fact, I spend more time on my ass than on my skis.... I'm usually the one on the snowmobile destroying the trails....but not this weekend...I had a different plan, I was going up to the mountains alone and was going to take the ski class to try to actually make it down the mountain without having everyone laugh at...
The evening started out normally, it was Friday night around 5:30 and as usual we had nothing planned. When I say "we" I mean my friends and me. This day my group of friends consisted of My best friends girlfriend (Meghan), my best friend (Steve), a friend of my best friend's girlfriend (Michelle), and me. Michelle and I pretty much had to stick together, be...
This is a submission to the Winter Holidays Contest. Be naughty and read this. Be nice and please vote. Happy holidays! In the dense grey coastal fog, on that cold Christmas Eve's night, Nick turned the last corner on a quiet suburban street on his way home from a business trip. Though the trip had been a success, the last eleven hours had been a frustratin...
The thief struggled relentlessly to release herself from the firm grip of the two stealthy bodyguards. She tried to get a better sense of her surroundings, but the small slits of the ski mask offered only limited vision. They lead her across the living room where they then ascended a long flight of stairs. She was dragged by her arms down a hallway and into...
Lisa couldn't understand why she was so scared to tackle the ski slope! She had practiced with the rest of her peers with the ski instructor learning how to guide and slow down her skis, but she still couldn't force herself to get on the lift. She watched as the rest of her friends waved from their chairs as they slowly rose toward the mountain top. Lisa...
Do you hear what I hear? A voice, singing in the woods behind the cemetery. The words faint and distant on the wind like the smell of pine, the taste of cloves. It's so icy out. My teeth chatter, skin flushes, fingers in my mittens feel numb. I'm digging in the snow, looking for the song beneath the evergreen boughs. Do you feel what I feel? A tombstone on...
Chapter 1: His book had languished for months, ignored and remaindered, a disappointment to the one or two snippy critics who had bothered to review it-a sad, failed, offspring of his imagination. So it came as a stunning surprise when his agent had called with the news that a studio was interested in making it into a movie and he was astounded in the month...
Chapter 7 -- Holiday Fantasy Marie's eyes fluttered open suddenly as cool air caressed her back. Her hand flopped around behind her looking for Nick but all she found was cool sheet. He must have slipped out awhile ago. The poor man probably needed a break from her, she grinned remembering the two sweat drenched days they had spent in this bed. Her eye cau...
The sun was shining through gaps in the puffy snow clouds, throwing the white world into a swirl of white and gray, speckled with the green of mountain pine. Adele puffed her breath and giggled when it condensed into a small cloud in front of her face. It was the day after the diner fiasco and Travis had driven Adele to the park where they used to do their h...