1 It all began, and I say this with a small sense of irony, on a dark stormy night. Doesn't everything of any importance always happen on a dark and stormy night? I don't know if that's true, but all the important events followed from that dark winter snow swept night in December last year. I was just seventeen on that night. My mom was particularly drunk a...
I had been riding across the prairie for the last five days. My horse was tiring fast and so was I. The bitter cold of late winter was starting to concern me. If this kept up and I didn't find shelter soon I was finished for sure, and that would really piss me off. I was approaching the foot hills of the mountains that I had to cross to reach my destination....
Chapter 7: A Past Life **My thanks and my unabashed admiration to Sonia de Beaumanoir for forcing my characters to speak proper French.** * * * * * January 14th. Around us the skies were so gray as to be black. If God herself were to speak over the airplane intercom to inform all of us passengers that we were being diverted to the next to the last airpor...
Authors Note: If you expect this story to include a lot of sex, you can stop now. If you were thinking that anything more than the brief interactions presented here are going to happen, it is not my intention when I started the story. I just wanted this story to be focused more on the shared nudity among some young adults and in this case, the parents of the...
Storms always make working at a grocery store an interesting experience. You never know exactly how people are going to react and how many will actually come out shopping when they expect to be "trapped" in their houses. It was a Friday in late the middle of December and I was scheduled to close the store with Ashley, and thanks to the impending storm we had...
"Dad, you're kidding. Right?" "No Son. I need your help. This is an important contract and I need to get this sloop out of the yard in Annapolis and to the Port of Seattle by the twenty-first." "Yeah, but can't you get one of the other drivers to do it? I wanted to spend some time skiing." "Son, I have a responsibility to the people that work for me. I wo...
I know I'm going to hell for what I tried to do and what I did. I've learned to live with the guilt just as I live with the sad, sweet, depraved and glorious memories. I don't figure I'm ever going to get over either. And maybe that's my real hell. A few years ago I set my sights on Jasmine Pilcher, a most ordinary woman who came to my attention in a most...
"You're not packed yet?" Sadie looked up from her phone at the sound of her husband's voice. "Hey! I'm all packed except for a few things." She pointed to the dryer across from where she was sitting. "Two shirts and a skirt. I forgot to throw them in the wash last night." Her husband Will leaned against the doorframe of the laundry room, arms crossed. "Why...
Walking in a Winter Wonderland There is just something about the first real snowfall; the blanket of white covering everything always leaves me breathless. The pureness of the event makes even the most tainted feel clean. Lately however I haven't been able to get such a feeling though because I live in an area of Canada where snow is almost never seen so...
3. Crossing paths. Justin was beyond angry. Not only had he failed in convincing Shane to step down as Alpha, he also managed to get himself exiled from the pack. To add salt to that wound, his shoulder was still in pain from when Shane threw him into the wall. The injury was already healing for the most part, but the soreness remained. He hadn't bothered...