Writer's note: You may have seen this published on another website. It is a sequel to a story by my favorite writer. She was fully aware of my intent to compose it before I began, and she has read and approved this effort. Her original story was about a middle-aged, upper-class couple, Jonathan and Amelia Russell, who moonlighted as cat burglars in their nei...
1 There was a persistent knocking, tearing me from my doze. As I awoke the knocking continued. I called out, asking who was there. "My name is Justine Zamora. I'm looking for Charlie Baines. Do I have the right room?" asked the voice on the other side of the door, timidly. "Justine! Oh my God! Let me get dressed! Hold on!" I hollered and slipped quickly...
I ran under the invisibility cloak I'd stolen from Harry toward the forbidden section of the library. I cautiously eyed my stolen Marauder's Map for any sign of nearby teachers, but fortunately my route seemed to be completely deserted. I had discovered a way to open these books without triggering their curse. The true trick to reading a book from the Forbid...
Christa giggled a little as we walked through the store. "Everyone is staring at you," she whispered conspiratorially. "Are you sure?" I replied, arching my eyebrows and squeezed her shoulder, "Seems to me you're the one with the most to check out." She giggled again, "Well maybe it's both of us then." What was left unsaid was that the reason other shoppe...
Note: This is an excerpt from a novel I never finished and have since out grown. It seems to stand alone as a short story, I think. Things you should know: are that the crazy font action and words that are run together were done on purpose, And D is a character of undeterminable gender and race. It was an experiment. Those things don't come so much in to pla...
Hallo to all who follow my stories. I have been asked numerous times to put a note on which story goes where in the series I have written. It all started with Stolen. Then Ren: Shades of Grey overlaps from Chapter 6 of Stolen; this is Ren's side of the story as it unfolds. It also overlaps into the next story inline: Shattered Dreams starts where Stolen fin...
(*Due to the chapters needing a guiding direction, I will be posting the different pathways at the end of each chapter. You'll notice them by the special marking they have before them. Thank you.*) Lisa woke slowly, still slightly groggy from sleep. She let her mind wander as she still had a few minutes before getting ready for school, and she decided to let...
Author's Note: Gretel Fox lures Casper Waverly into firing Kurt Merchant from BizMart, a Baltimore firm that brokers business mergers and acquisitions. To receive his severance pay, Kurt must undergo psychological counseling with the company's psychiatrist, Lila Krafft, who has lost her license for unscrupulous practices. Dr. Krafft hypnotizes Kurt to pump h...
For the past six months, Tony has lived at a halfway house, near an industrious section of the city. The neighborhood is a blue collar-like area, with lots of warehouses, factories, and local bars. He works during the day, as a fork-lift driver at one of the nearby warehouses. He lives alone, but he is happy. Before, he was in a relationship with his girlfri...
Stepping through the door to her studio apartment, she sighed in relief. Between her culinary arts courses at the local university and her job as a housekeeper, she was just happy to be home. At nineteen years old, she had left home first thing to pursue her dream of becoming a professional chef. It was a bit scary being away from her mom, dad, and three you...