Jessica folded her book over a finger and looked around. She spotted the restroom facilities about halfway across the park. Her car was the other direction. Making a decision, she sighed, placed her bookmark, and rose from the bench to make her way down the path. The warmth of the spring sun washed over her. It felt so good to leave the coats, jackets, and...
V He knew he didn't have to say it, it was totally unnecessary, but he said it anyway. "They're back." Jenny moved quickly sliding into her silk robe, tying the belt around her waist she gingerly approached the window, stopping the second; the dark brown, bald head man threw a hand up making a stop sign. "What are we going to do?" "You're asking me as i...
Author's note: This is version 3. I went back once to edit inconsistencies/continuity errors and really embarrassing editing mistakes, and now I've edited it so I don't have to retcon later on. I wrote the first of these purely as a one-off satire, then it grew while I wasn't looking. I've now worked out the rules of the world properly, so here's another ed...
Part IV: Twin Problems Kevin shows Nicole and Taylor Claymont around DC. Leah wonders what it would be like to be in Adrianna Giuliani’s shoes for a day. Chapter 1 The Sunday after the Giuliani's Midsummer Night Party was spent in recovery mode. Kevin thought he had refrained from drinking too much, sobering up enough to drive home sometime around 1 or 2....
Liberty Elite Easter Party Ross pulled off the A5 and into the car park, found a space easily and killed the engine. In the silence that followed, the ticking of the Fiat's engine as it cooled was very loud. "There's not many cars here." Adam pointed out with a nervous laugh. He spoke in a hushed voice and Libby wondered why. "We're early still," Said...
"You're not allowed to get changed into your gym kit at work anymore!" Cat had snuck up close to me so she could lean in to say that right in my ear while i stood with my drink at the bar. It was a Friday night and a few of us had come out together, straight from work, for a few drinks. We'd been out for a couple of hours, wandering around town, hopping fr...
While it wasn't my intention to have this long a break between chapters, setting up the cliffhanger in the back of the cab was planned. Suffice it to say, the action picks up considerably in this chapter. As always, I owe many thanks to my friend and editor, stevieraygovan. He helps me take the germ of a story and make it the passionate tale you have before...
The night air in Santa Fe was filled with a mesquite scent. Turquoise Sky shut the door to her black Mercedes Coupe and headed up the drive of the hilltop home. Turquoise was a towering brunette who stood six feet tall in her stocking feet. Her face was slim, with high cheekbones and a chiseled nose. Her straight long brown hair framed her face like a dark h...
Cynthia's husband of two years, Brian, was in the Marines' Force Recon and stationed in Iraq. She had heard her brother, who was a Naval officer, refer to Force Recon marines as "bullet sponges" when he thought she wasn't listening, since he would have never said such a thing had he known she was within earshot of him. This description sent Cynthia's imagi...
Foster Davis had been a widower for just over two years when his daughter and a friend were returning from a semester in France the week before Thanksgiving. Tall, forty-something and in good physical shape with a distinguished touch of gray at his temples and salted throughout his professorial beard, he was lonely for companionship he easily could have had...