Rachel was kneeling, weeding in her garden in her front yard when she saw her neighbor's car come to a screeching halt on the street in front of her house. It was unseasonably warm on this Friday in early March in Colorado Springs. Spring seemed to be descending on the mountain town very early this year – there was no snow on the ground, and the past two wee...
Roland Bell concluded that Las Vegas had advantages as a place for 850 neurologists to discuss pain, advantages beyond having more hotel rooms than any other city in America. For those devoting their careers to investigating pain and confronting its harrowing extremes, chronic urgency was an occupational hazard. By its nature, however, urgency could not be p...
Slowly I look around, inhaling the scents of this city. My sharpened senses pick up the scents that no human could ever imagine. A sickened shiver runs down my spine as I taste the stench of hour old vomit and urine from drunken youths, as well as a million other things that I don't care to think about; their disgusting aromas combing to form an overwhelming...
This story plays fast and loose with Ancient History and Linguistics; be warned. R&M and all the others that let me bounce ideas off them. Strength is equal parts Body and the Mind, but true strength comes from a relentless Spirit. ***** (Late Saturday Morning) "Why is she here?" Yasmin asked me, giving a nod toward Buffy. Buffy was a good ten meters aw...
Grace sipped her iced tea in the warm glow of the kitchen lights, and gazed out at the torrential summer rain splashing into the pool. She was too jetlagged for a swim anyway, and was more than happy to bask in the opulence of Sally's academic advisor's palatial home. "I thought professors weren't well paid," she said as she heard Sally returning from the fr...
The present continuation of "Country Life" is marked with "II" to say that it's a rather freestanding story that can be read without having read the previous chapters. I would of course like you to read them as well. There will probably be three chapters in Country Life II. I hope you will enjoy them and please tell me what you like them by voting or giving...
I woke about four in the morning realizing that Frank was not beside me, as I peered through the darkness I could hear him talking softly on the phone in the attached bath. "No, don't arrest her, if you do she'll have to go before the judge. Just put her in one of the cells away from as many people as possible. It's empty? Great, put her toward the back wh...
Chris and Janet were sitting on the couch in her living room. They were so close that Janet was almost on his lap. It was because they had just been interrupted because Janet's mom came home. They hadn't been doing anything except kissing so they were fully dressed but Janet was trying to look cool and Chris was distracted and trying to hide a bulge in his p...
Chapter 1 Lightly bearded Ted Brough, dressed in a faded red polo shirt draped over the belt-line of near indestructible faded jeans that topped scruffy soft lace-ups, stopped his Jeep Grand Cherokee on the roadside at the edge of town. The aggressive leader and two irate followers dragged a severely beaten guy from the vehicle. Two centuries ago, victim...
Author's Comments: A couple of you found similarities with Harry Potter. I didn't intend it, but I am not surprised. Harry Potter and LOTR were my favorite books as a kid. If only I can be as good as either of them. Though, I feel the HP series deteriorated after the fourth book. ReaderReaderFic: I never even thought that river otter made good pet until...