"Look at it! It's so beautiful!" Belinda cried excitedly as she gazed out the train window at the verdant countryside passing by. "It's just farmland," Amber said scornfully. "Full of animals and peasants." "I love animals," Belinda said defensively. "Look at the horses!" "Oh be quiet, you sound like a l...
It doesn’t matter what you were doing before, but when you blinked, you were suddenly in the back of a bookstore. You know this bookstore, it’s the one closest to your house, and you’ve been to it plenty of times, though not often in this section, the children’s section. “What am I doing here?” You ask aloud, looking outside the window to discover it was the...
My name is Mayumi Shimazu. I am a chauffeur working for the Takeda family. They are a wealthy family known for their famous jewelry that all the beautiful women wear, and the man behind all of it was Tadakazu Takeda. His son, Kazunari Takeda, is a handsome actor who was featured in commericals for the jewelry, and had a beautiful wife. Her name was Shiori Ta...
Ryan Carter got his doctorate from the archaeology graduate program at Harvard and was a field researcher and adjunct professor with Columbia University. Inspired as a child by the Indiana Jones movies, Ryan wanted to study the mysteries of ancient cultures. Even though the academia and field work of archaeology was no where as glamorous or exciting as the m...
Elena deBalzaac stood in shock as the messenger repeated his message. Her father had finally pegged it, leaving her the sole heir of his considerable estate. She was free now. Free to whatever she chose. Her father had been trying to force her to marry her neighbour at this country hellhole. A creepy, perverted older man with no charm to speak of. But she co...
Pandora is a planet that was colonized in 5273 after the Earth was destroyed by warfare that claimed most of the population. Only a third of the population survived to make it to a new world after randomly jumping into a new galaxy. Nearly a hundred escape shuttles crashed on Pandora, bringing advanced weapons and technology to a world untouched by any senti...
Steven Lampard High School was having their annual week-long summer vacation for the students just before they left. Since it was usually expensive, not many people went on these trips, but this year, nine students managed to afford the holiday, some got the parents to pay, and some worked but they were not preparing to leave. Characters: Xander Evans: Short...
"You never really get used to Keegan's coffee." The young archeology student winced as the hot coffee filled her belly. In the freezing temperatures that lay just outside the tent, the warmth of the coffee was its one and only saving grace. It even lacked the tempting aroma of most coffee. "You would think a man with his vast experience in lif...
Billy was a wimpy boy who tended to get himself into a lot of trouble. He was scrawny and only 5 feet 2 inches. Billy was the only man in his family. That was if you could even call him a man. He was of age though. The girls seem to like him in a puppy dog short of way. They found him cute like a little toy. Billy was smart but didn’t speak up for himself th...
He knew what she needed even before she asked for it, but he wanted, no needed, to see the beseeching supplication in her eyes as she struggled to form the words from her trembling lips. He pulled her close, lifted her chin with one finger, looked straight into her watery blues and asked: "tell me what it is you want little one." She hesitated momentarily...