Prologue "I need a break!" Elle said. She ran her hands through her long brown hairs and groaned in frustration. Her life was a miserable excuse of living. Oh wait; she had no life at all. You don't call work, eat, sleep-and repeat- a life, do you? In the middle of all this she had Ronnie-a ten year old brother- to take care of which gave her a reason for l...
***I'm hitting the pause button to back time up a few weeks as we look elsewhere for a little while. Don't worry, this is not far from the mountain where the others live. I also need to explain a couple of things. To me, the fact that I have to explain outside of a story is an indication of failure as a writer, but I'd rather do this than leave readers in t...
brief (legal)=barrister (Attorney); CPS=Crown Prosecution Service corpse= breaking into inappropriate laughter I think the American is blooper? Boot (of car)= trunk TWENTY-FIVE I again thought over whether I was doing the right thing. I kept coming back to the idea that perhaps it would have been better to stay clear of Ann and let her get on with her li...
CHAPTER 1 Riding on the 8:17 into London, Jo Hart watched the broad shouldered blond guy approach down the aisle and resumed painting her finger nails, timing the brush strokes with the sway of the carriage. The guy stopped, picked up her handbag that lay beside her on the outside seat and tossed it on to the floor beside her feet and sat down. "Hey what...
Interior-Kitchen 0410 The comm on the wall chirped as Carter sat at the kitchen table, slowly adding sugar to her coffee. She ignored it, as she'd been doing for the last five minutes. A moment later, she heard the elevator doors open, then Cisco stepped into the kitchen. "Are you alright colonel?" He asked, looking around the room. He saw the telemetry...
It was a textbook bad day. Sadie woke up with her hair in a mess, missed the bus and was late for her first class. Her cell phone went off in the middle of class, pissing off the professor, and her knee ached all day from running for the freaking bus. She ordered spaghetti from the cafeteria, and the congealing mess had apparently been badly prepared becaus...
Chapter Two Exploration Monday morning, 5:00. Valerie's alarm went off with its usual irritating buzzing, like the back up alarm on a truck. Reaching over, she turned her light on and then turned off the alarm. She had to train herself to do it in that order so as not to oversleep. Forcing her protesting body up, she stumbled to the shower and began the pr...
I would like to thank the darlin mymantoy999 for his editing and insight and in particular keeping my math and thought process straight while writing these! ***** As amber had suggested she and I settled into our new normal relatively quickly. Now on top of waitress duties every other week, house cleaning trips and the random frustration amber experienced...
1,570 AQ – TANGLEWOOD, A TOWN ON THE CONTINENT CORINA. Ulily was talking politics again. Grun's ale always did that to him, making post-patrol nightcaps at the Have Another alehouse especially grueling for Nard. "Heads up their asses, the whole lot of em!" Ulily bellowed, slamming his mug on the table. "I'll tell you this (hic) tell you this right now. Ne...
Welcome to the final part of this ongoing series. I will warn you in advance that there is some very disturbing subject matter in this story. As always, any similarities to anything you may have seen or heard before is a complete accident. ***** I was awake in the darkness. I knew that I was jolted awake by a disturbing dream, but the details didn't stay...