Chapter 10 - Personal Negotiations and the Morning After. Natalie stood on the quarterdeck, wiped her eyes, and ignored the helmsman as he steered the ship and glanced her way from time to time. It was after sunset and the sky was clear and the elf looked up at the stars. Back home she could name every constellation and just by the stars know what direction...
Missy and Jay had been staying at the lodge for about three days and honestly, it was getting boring. Unless you had a boat to use on the lake, which everybody else did, you were really limited in what you could do. On Wednesday night they decided to kill some time at the lodge pool. The pool was down the hill from the lodge. They began their walk to the l...
Linus pushed Moe to get inside. Moe didn't budge. He grabbed Linus by the arm and pulled him into the cabin, slamming shut the door. "Did you see that?" Lexie said. "Our boy is in trouble." "Time for Charlie's Angels to save the day," the dancer said. She and Lexie marched toward the cabin. "Are you coming, Dakota?" "Whsht!" Holly hissed. "Go get some sna...
The scent was growing stronger, and Jade could pick up the low hushed sound of weeping. She came to the edge of the trees and looked down on the small cabin nestled into the mountainside. The windows were shaded, but she could hear voices inside. She slowly slunk up to the side of the cabin and listened. She could make out four voices, three men arguing a...
** To remember a magical night and a magical weekend... thank you ** Shay pulled the door closed behind her, dropping her keys on the foyer table. She had been out running errands most of the day, and was a little bit drained. She made her way to the office and powered up her computer. She had tons of work to catch up on, and was not looking forward to what...
My wife and I recently went on a cruise to the Carribean. We had more fun on the cruise than I had expected. This was our present to ourselves for our 25th anniversary. In the 70’s, Jillian and I got into wife swapping for several years and played with it off and on through the next twenty years. We had not swapped for the last eight years and Jill had made...
As I walked up the gangway I thought to myself, 'Tammy, you really need this.' My husband, Ross and I hadn't had a vacation in three years, work had been so pressing that we were just unable to get away. Now I was on board the luxury cruise ship for twelve days of relaxation and fun in the southern Caribbean. Our cabin was large with a separate bedroom and...
I stood in the door in shock, staring at Trent and he looked back at me just as stunned. "What are you...?" The bedroom door opened and a man in a white uniform came out. "Oh good, you have arrived." He said looking back and forth between Trent and me. "My name is Paul and I am your concierge. I am at the disposal of you and your wife during your voyage....
Dave Stewart sat in his green Lazy-Boy recliner and read the Sunday morning newspaper. He finished his second cup of coffee and got up to pour another one from the carafe on the kitchen counter. His wife Janet was up at 6 AM and out the door by 7 AM. She had to drive their sixteen-year-old daughter to a soccer game at a school 50 miles away. Dave sighed as...
Sorry to have taken so long to write this, but medical reasons have had me laid up. About the middle sixty's I was in my second year of college and home for the summer. I had taken a part time job with the neighbors to help Lenny fix up a cabin he and his wife, Bertha, had bought in northern Wisconsin. (If you read the two stories, Lawn Work Rewards you wil...