Tessia and Michael had met awhile back at various gatherings hosted by mutual friends. They had talked some and as time went on they found themselves gravitating towards each other, spending more and more time together finding mutual interests and curiosities, always lightly flirting. Today they spent a morning in the outdoors, in the good air, having fun, e...
This is the first half of a story inspired by the "hunting for Bambi" hoax. Even if the story as a whole is not finished, this chapter is a finished section and can be enjoyed as such. If there is interest I'll continue this story. ***** Battle of the Sexes. It was a beautiful summer day. The midday sun was high up in the sky, heating up the world with it...
I sat there in the bar clutching my drink, trembling, partly in anger at what had pushed me to this, but even more so with nerves at what I was about to do. It hadn't helped that I arrived an hour early. Rather than go home first and then have to come straight back out again, I decided to come immediately after work and have a couple of drinks to bolster m...
Author's notes: Warning! This is an extramarital sex story. For those who don't like these themes please move along. Constructive comments are appreciated, hate speech will be deleted. ***** "Everybody wants something from you, Everybody want a piece of Mary Lush valley all dressed in green Just ripe for the picking" - "Mary" by Tori Amos Mary strides ac...
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Chapter Sixteen – Transcendent ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Venus exists outside the realm of mere mortal experience. She is the transcendent goddess, beyond our mundane perceptions. "A Fool's Book of Wisdom" ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ She awoke to a sound and this time, she smiled. She recognized it immediately although she had never hear...
I stepped away from the painting and arched my back to relieve the ache. The large canvas required me to stand, but the years and a legacy of arthritis from my father made it difficult. I always managed to become swept up in the brush strokes and the blending of subtle hues, and it wasn’t until I stopped that I knew I‘d been on my feet too long. The coffee w...
Spring arrived at Norton's Academy of Excellence. It painted the drab lawns with blazing green, causing desolate bushes to burst into a zillion flowers. Chaotic birdsong filled the sky, and Lucian Gaines ran, seeing it all happen - the yellow of daffodils, the purple of crocuses and the pure white of snowbells. Not that he had the faintest idea what th...
A million drops of water will hollow a stone Three months passed, and a patient repetition of daily chores created a new normality for Lucian Gaines -- even in a world as weird as Norton's Academy of Excellence. Since he started classes, things sped up. Life became more palpable, more real -- though increasingly bizarre. He was at a school after all, a...
I run, as far and as fast as I can.... I'm sobbing in fear, dodging trees as they blur past. Every breath in feels laced with sharp edges that cut. I can hear him gaining. His whoops of delight telling me he's relishing the chase. I'm running as if a demon is chasing me... But I'm getting ahead of myself. ***** "Fluffy! We're leaving in an hour, so don't...
This is a work of fiction. All characters depicted are over the age of 18 Part 2... Beck and Watson meet the Braggs and lend a hand, none of them knowing where this act of kindness would eventually lead... * The boat was riding lazily at anchor in the lee of a small, palm-fringed cay, two hundred meters from the beach at the edge of the coral. A black-hul...