The Mountain By The Sea Mary had seen pictures, and any number of movies and television shows, but nothing had prepared her for the glory of a New England October. From the back window of her apartment she had always enjoyed the view of the harbor, but for the first time she came to appreciate the sight of the gently rolling hills on the other side of the w...
Author's Note: This story picks up directly from Deep Dive (Part 4). ***** It was now mid-March, and we were returning home from a month in Bali. During the first week of our trip, we'd focused our attention totally on Michelle, trying to pack as much as we could into seven short days. After she'd returned home to Switzerland, the next three weeks in...
Ravenna933 edited this story and made some helpful suggestions. * Day four in Oman, a Wednesday, dawned with a soft knocking at my door. I rolled over in bed, still half-asleep, checking the clock. It was about an hour prior to my alarm, and wearily, I got out of bed, walked to the door, and opened it. The hallway was deserted, apart from the back of a hi...
Chapter 17 Corec's shield spell flared out as one of the red-eyes got a horseman's pick past his sword. Corec stepped back and angled himself to the side to present a smaller target. The pick, which looked like an elongated version of Boktar's warhammer, was slow and unwieldy, but it was designed to fight men in heavy armor. If the red-eye got in a lucky sh...
I arrived at my hotel and got checked in. There was a bar downstairs in the hotel, so I thought it might be nice to have a drink before I went to bed. I had brought my Rachel clothes with me, at least, my lingerie and make up. I didn't really have a dress, but I had bought a shirt that definitely looked a bit girly, and with a pair of jeans, and my hair done...
In this chapter, and in the last couple of chapters I have introduced some Lakota culture into this story. All of it is accurate as far as I can tell, I have done a lot of research into their culture during the writing of this story, and I am not trying to trivialize, or sensationalize their beliefs. If I have offended any members of the Lakota, or any membe...
Rory Martin was wondering why ever since she started her path into Crescent Pine Woods. She was shivering in her black cloak looking up into the night sky, the stars misguiding her on her way to the little cabin that sat near the edge of the forest. As many times as she had visited her grandmother, following the same path, she was now completely lost. Two y...
We were sitting around after the day's work on Friday in the local dive we called our bar. The four of us were listening to Bill Chapman explain again how he had just discovered his wife of 25 years had had an affair a while back. The other three had offered him their support and pointed out repeatedly the cost of a divorce if he decided to go that route. Th...
Ok, I am still working on Ashley's Tale, but I am stuck so I started this one. Never fear though, I'm halfway to the next post point, just juggling plot points in my head, the story is not dead. The Flame of Cytherea is a transferred to a new world story, one where the protagonist will be moved to from Earth. I have read a lot in this genre that I enjoyed,...
Thanks to SlaveGirl70 for the help with editing. She suffered so you don't have to. This is a romance in the shadow of betrayal and revenge. ************************************** The star-filled Arizona sky was fixed in the windshield as the rest of the state raced past. There were no tail lights ahead and the nearest headlights had merged into a single...