I'm the manager of a storefront travel agency in the Las Vegas area. This agency is part of a chain of fourteen stores in Southern California, Arizona and Nevada. With the increased use of Internet travel sites our agency has had to sponsor different types of promotions to draw clients to our store to make bookings. Some of these promotions are as much as a...
"London we have synched our rotation and are beginning docking approach now. Approach speed .5 meters per second distance 100 meters. Still no contact with Unity IV crew." "Affirmative Pegasus London copies docking approach." News Release: The International Space Agency's Mission Control Center in London announced today that the rescue ship Pegasus will r...
Mariella Yasimoto-Johnson is the name, and I was born in the City of Toronto, Ontario, to a Japanese-Canadian mother and a Jamaican immigrant father. Five-foot-eleven, brown-skinned, black-haired and brown-eyed, sturdy and curvy but fit, that's me. I am the unique daughter of two different worlds. It's not easy being a mixed-race woman in the Confederation o...
After awhile, all location photo shoots look about the same. You've seen them all, done them all, and are bored silly. Half the time, you're just going through the motions, wondering when you will get to go back home this time. Now and then, however, you hit one that stands out in your mind for a very long time. So far, this wasn't it. In days past, this gi...
This is a story about a psychoanalyst, his assistant and his nurse treating patients who are sexually dysfunctional. The real issue is who are more dysfunctional the patients or those who treat them? You choose. * Part 1 Sammi meets Emma and Mike. Even before Sammi had qualified as a nurse she had had doubts as to whether the profession was for her. Aft...
My name is Lois Prince. My husband John and I have lived in this town all our lives. I can tell you about every store and every house, and who lives there. Even though this is the county seat, there aren't more than 2500 people living here. There is a historic old courthouse, built almost a hundred years ago, with the rest of the town laid out in a grid arou...
The car slid backwards and into a tight turn as soon as I was clear, reversed and headed down the street the way we had come. I watched it go with a heaviness in the pit of my stomach. I felt like I had forgotten something, and quickly realized it was because most of my pockets were empty. My phone and car keys had been confiscated and destroyed within minut...
"Testing, testing. Mic is on. Camera is on. Beginning junior detective's interview for Katsumi Hojo, age 20. It's recording? Okay. Beginning interview..." The suited, Japanese man sitting across from me fumbled with his recording equipment, acting as though this was the first time he'd ever questioned a new hire. I'd been worried about getting a st...
For two years, John Doe had been working for Blue Diamond Escorts, unquestionably the most prestigious and exclusive such agency on the planet. Blue Diamond was for the cream of the crop: the richest, most powerful, most famous people in the world. Movie stars, senators, foreign dignataries, captains of industry, these were the clientele that Blue Diamond se...
"Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one" ― Bruce Lee * By 9:45 am Saturday morning, Agent McDonald and Agent Smith had left one of the Agency's satellite offices located behind a dry-cleaning laundry in the center of the downtown section of the busy Metropolitan City. Both agreed on a drink. Problem was, Agent Smith w...