The morning darkness faded and Kaia was finally able to look around to take a full assessment of her predicament. She was on a ship manned entirely by centaurs, there must be at least a hundred of them. The ship was large and moving quite swiftly, propelled by the centaurs incredible strength. Piles of plunder lay on the deck around her. The heavy chain whic...
************** When someone has an honest attitude, honestly, do you actually trust them? ************** This tasty young bird struts down to my end of the moderately crowded pub. A pageboy-cut brunette in a frilly blouse barely containing a double handful of knockers. Poured into a pair of Capris doing a bang up job of displaying the Golden Mean of her...
When I woke up the sun was shining brightly through the window closest to my bed. Its light was what actually woke me from enjoying a dream that I know I shouldn't have been having anyway. Brandon didn't seem to be fazed by it though; even as it shined directly onto his face, he continued to sleep. Looking at him, I felt a tug on my heart while watching hi...
For Caroline He'd spotted her for the first time in the town's quaint little marketplace, basket in hand, sorting through the local tropical fruit. There was something about her that struck him as different from the very beginning; something about her that set her apart from the local inhabitants and the other tourist visitors to that beautiful Caribbean is...
Kelly came up the drive from her morning run through the neighborhood to find a FedEx truck. The driver was about to ring the doorbell. "What ya got there?" she asked as she stopped running and preceded to do some cool down stretches. "Uh, I have a package for a Miss Kelly Stone." "That would be me," Kelly replied as she continued to stretch as she cooled...
I had desperately needed this vacation. Things hadn't been going well with my girlfriend, seems like we are fighting all the time. So I decided that I needed to get away for some time to myself. I'd always wanted to go to Cancun, so I just went. Flying in over the Caribbean was amazing. The water is the most beautiful color I'd ever seen. If you haven't seen...
Cricket blinks and raises a brow, wondering what manner of creature she was looking at. She stays in the shadows keeping absolutely still, not wanting to make any sound that would alert it to her presence. She studies it, watching how it moves and what it was up to. What was it doing here so near the village? She has never seen anything quite like it. At tha...
The courtroom was packed. Dozens of faces, all of them strangers. Some of them were like me: people in trouble. Their heads were hanging low, their legs crossed, shoulders drawn in, trying to shrink, to be invisible. I was doing the same thing. One of the few times in life I was glad to be so small. I sat in a corner, second row from the back. Some of the pe...
(Read the series Good morning India for the background of Kira's adventures) * Kira had that evening several guests : Dan her French husband, Ranu his Indian girlfriend and Cindy, an American archeologist who was preparing a memoir on the palace where Kira lived about half the year with her Indian husband Kyrhan. A few years ago, Kira was the happy wife o...
The Starlight Sonata, Part II (note: part one of the story appeared under the title "Woman in Chains") The Stones of Years I The air was so cold that the snow underfoot crunched like shards of broken glass on cold, dry stone; each breath the boy drew-in burned so sharply it made his clear blue eyes water. The cold seared his eyes, tears formed and ran d...