Senior Class Trip around the World I couldn't believe that in a few short months, I would be graduating from Corona Valley High School. Being 18 and lacking vision on my immediate future and what I wanted to do after my senior year, well it didn't really phase me. I knew I could go to college. I certainly had the grades for it, but my parents didn't really...
Chapter 1: Captured Cannons fired all along the ship as I ran across the under deck of the ship. Our ship's cannons were good but not enough. The captain of the ship was a blasted idiot and hadn't even waited until the ship's starboard side cannons were lined up with the pirate ship that had come upon us. It had come completely out of nowhere, out of a fog...
Tomas was going to spend his senior year of High School on exchange. He had decided to go to America to work on his English and he had always wanted to visit there. His friends assured him that American girls are easy, the school work is easy and he would have a great time. Tomas ignored them, for the most part. He knew that girls are pretty much the same in...
It was a nice clear sunny day on the Costa Blanca in Spain. There were in fact no clouds in the sky at all which was surprising for the month of October. There was a little breeze but it was quite warm, increasing to hot when the wind dropped down to still. The old style Spanish house, or finca, stood on a slope facing south, with a panoramic view over the...
This place had been her home for as long as she could remember. The green pastures rolled on for miles beyond the dark red barn. The sky above was such a deep blue as it reflected off the shaded lake around the front. She sat upon the old, red painted, wooden fence. Her short auburn strands blowing in the gentle breeze. A milky hand moved to keep the light...
Summary of Part 1: In part 1, after Candace caught her husband Winthrop cheating for the third time her best friends, married attorneys Joyce and David, talked her into going to a women's boot camp. Between the camp and Candace's night of the best sex of her life with David she finally had the self-confidence to realize that there is no justification for he...
(I found this moving account of my great, great uncle David's struggle to learn a foreign language and the methods they used to teach French to those who were ungifted linguistically. His words are taken verbatim from a secret diary he kept when he was 19 years old). * In 1885, when I was 19, my parents told me that I needed to pass the Civil Service exam...
The walk wasn't long, but the narrow, winding streets often made it seem so. Particularly on evenings like this. Jeff walked quickly over the damp cobblestone path, a small introspective smile on his face, making him look a little like a Cheshire cat. He had a destination and a goal, and he was intent on getting there quickly. Waiting in the little bungalow...
Knights In Detroit With Gracie (Note: a small part of Chapter 11 was included at the end of the previous submission as a teaser. My bad, it won't happen again. The complete and rewritten version of Chapter 11 starts the current submission. There are no substantive changes.) Chapters 11 and 15 are short and advance the story. Chapters 12, 13 and 14 detail...
(Disclaimer: This is pure fiction and a fantasy of mine. Not based on true events.) My name is Bill, 21, of Native American descent, just below 6 ft, athletic build and enlisted in the Marine Corps of the United States. I enlisted when I was 19 soon after graduating high school and was still deciding whether or not I wanted to pursue a college degree. I w...