They had met for lunch a few days before and the plan had been all arranged then. It wasn't a bad plan and what few flaws it had were worked out over the lunch with the five of them. The timing and the environment and other small such things that in the long run were easily resolved. The hardest part was going to be after the fact, but they had all decided...
This was going to be the most difficult trip Cindy was ever to undertake. She knew it was over a long time ago, yet she held on, something she could do no longer. The engagement was a total waste of time; they never saw each other and Cindy suspected that he was having sex on the sideline even though they had both promised to be faithful. It had to end and s...
As I look back on it, I realize that that night marked a watershed in the history of my affair with Paul Bayard. I had a great deal of opportunity to analyze why things went wrong in the months that followed, as I much later walked the decks of foreign ships in unfamiliar oceans or waited to meet some new link in a chain of seeking that somehow seemed to gro...
I awoke to find that Gyn had left earlier than usual, so early that she'd decided not to wake me. We were returning to the Demon Realm that evening, so I spent the morning cleaning the apartment, dusting and polishing, taking care of the laundry, the usual domestic tasks that my beloved was too busy for at that time. That afternoon, having transferred whatev...
Author's note: Sorry guys, I realized that I did indeed screw with the timeline little. Unfortunately, I can't go back and fix it because this story has already been completed on my blog and I'm not going to change one tiny piece of it only for one website. It means that I would have to correct about three or four chapters on my blog and that's time that I c...
Life as a Chocobo Knight was a litter harder than I'd expected but having grown up around the large yellow birds, I felt right at home. Even though I was second in command of the unit it did take me a while to earn the respect of my subordinates. After two months they finally seemed to have accepted me among their ranks, thanks in no small part to the numero...
Pierre was, above all, a man unlikely to evoke superlatives in any consideration of him, and powerful was, perhaps, the least likely. Adventurous , needless to say, never came up in the same sentence as his name, and seductive would have brought a laugh to any woman's lips. The best that could, and ever was, said of him were rather ordinary assessments. At w...
My wife, Becky, has four sisters. The oldest, Janna, is forty-four and lives several states away so we don't get to see her very often. She's been divorced now for some years and teaches fifth grade. The next sister is Millie, she's forty, she lives in England with her husband who is British and we only see them every four or five years. Then, there's Melis...
Night fell upon the caravan, and while some stood guard, most slept uneasily and with weapons near. The full moon's soft illumination of the encampment was eerily beautiful. The breathing of the exhausted horses and the various noises of the nighttime forest seemed peaceful, but somehow the quiet was more disturbing than a column of barbarians. Outside his...
She had felt eyes on her all day. As she walked back and forth to the copier, to the mailroom, half-heartedly listened to coworkers discuss weekend plans around the water cooler. She knew he was watching her but Sophia didn't have the guts to seek out the stalking eyes to confirm the feeling. Sophia Stewart had been working at KeyCypher for almost eight mon...