It was what seemed a typical Saturday morning at our house. The smell of bacon, eggs and coffee being prepared; the sound of the vacuum running; the washing machine being loaded. My wife J and I had our to-do list of common, unremarkable weekend tasks. However, there was an overhanging air of anticipation as well. A few weeks ago I had seen an ad online fo...
ADDITIONS WELCOMED (ALL CHARACTERS PORTRAYED ARE 18 & OLDER) Jump City, home of the Teen Titans. While not as impressive a city as Gotham or Metropolis, it had its own charm to it. Out in the distance, on a small patch of land several miles from the city was a T-shaped building where the Titans lived and operated. Very few have ever been able to set foo...
Parfum Palace, the Kalos Region. While your travels have brought you around the various continents, you've never encountered architecture quite like this building. It wasn't as humongous as most of the Leagues you'd been to, nor did it leave a particularly deep impression - especially the places that had teleporter mazes. But what Parfum Palace lacked, it ma...
Marian Dewey considers herself incredibly lucky. She graduated college just as a permanent position in the school's library came open, so she has never needed to go out into the "real world". The head librarian is young enough that there's not likely to be much room for advancement for quite a while, but three years into the job, she's happy to jus...
AUTHOR'S NOTE: So all right. A stupid title: I'm not a working girl. "Confessions of A Swinger" would've been catchier. But though what follows is lightly fictionalised fact, it really isn't a confession at all. That's because, generally speaking, you only "confess" guilt. And I'm not guilty of anything. None of the true-life counterparts of the people...
Ch. 5: Pig and Poppies Alice enjoyed visiting toy-shops and sweet-shops, and she was always happy when Mouse or her mother lent her some money to look round them. Alice had just bought some very nice mushroom-shaped sweets from a confectioners in the high street and was eating them from the little paper bag when she saw what looked like a disembodied grin i...
You step off a private jet that had picked you up at your local airport in your hand is a notice that you had received by mail that you are invited to a big named casino in Las Vegas you ponder the notification after all you didn't enter any contests that you know of. Well, you haven't had a vacation in a long time so why not go and have some fun. "Chri...
As I reviewed the elegant invitation again I still felt a sense of indecision. It had been a long time since I'd attended such an affair. I was alternately filled with consuming dread or excitement. There was a reason I'd stopped attending, a very good reason. Closing my eyes I fought those thoughts of him and the tears that always followed. With a deep brea...
The receptionist checks Ellie in with the discrete aplomb English people manage so well. Dressed in a thrilling but unfamiliar fashion she feels like an actress about to appear on stage. Minutes later Carlo closes the hotel room door and hands her a glass of red wine, pleased by her evident excitement. "I knew there was a mutual attraction from the first ti...
The envelope definitely stood out from the rest of the mail. It was about seven inches square, very heavy parchment paper, with only an embossed emblem for a return address. "Lisa, does this look familiar to you at all?" David asked as he held the envelope up for her to see. "No, but it's probably just another sweepstakes thing," she said. "Open it and se...