Author's Note: This is my fifth semi-annual "invitational." The initial one was based on the Statler Brother's song, "This Bed of Rose's." The second used the Marty Robbins El Paso trilogy: "El Paso" "El Paso City " and "Faleena." The third had stories based on the various versions of "Maggie May" or "Maggie Mae." The fourth invitational was based on any Co...
Hello Readers! It has been much too long since I last posted a story. I am so glad to be back. This is Part One of a Six-Part story. All six parts are written and will be posted in order. It takes place in the same universe as my "Sultanah" series, but you don't need to read any of that to understand this story (but you really should read it). Please, please...
My name is Kerr. In the spring of every year after the snow retreats to the high places, I walk into the mountains to peel away the layers of habit and sloth that have accumulated in my head during a winter of work. It's just an annual thing I do. Early this June I started from Cairn Lake with my life in my backpack and headed up, climbing west on the trail...
In chapter 1-4 we met Sheikh Fouad bin Faisal bin Hoessein al Azzizi the 44 year old ruler of the Emirate West Tripolitania. More than 10 years ago he used his family fortune as an Arabian noble to conquer West Tripolitania with his band of foreign fighters. Was the country before suffering from tribal and religious conflicts that costed the lives of many of...
I know many of you have heard the rumours: that somewhere in the wild hills north of the great river, where the winds rise suddenly from the west and no sane man these days dares to go, there exist women who can transform themselves at will into anything they choose. A few even say these women can become any animal they wish, or can metamorphize themselves i...
Mia put her stuff for her Sunday school lesson in her bag and made her way to the church to teach the kids. She has been feeling off lately but doesn't know what is wrong with her. She just feels like something is missing from her life. She went from high school to a community college then straight to her current job. She hasn't traveled much because her dad...
Please consider reading the Trilogy of "The Trail West, Winterborn, and The Gathering to better understand how those characters and events flow into this story. Reading Parts 1 to 3 will set the stage for the conclusion of this story. Constructive comments and emails are very welcome and much appreciated. If you like or even dislike the story please send...
I had been driven to a bar where I was sitting at the bar supping a gin and tonic killing time until my step sister picked me up after she visited a sick relative, in hospital, to visit to a rich uncle, she had told me that she would be a gone a couple of hours, three at the most, and to get something to eat. Then adding ‘you’ll be OK without me without me’...
I know there were no eclipses that caused a blood moon in the 18th century, but please allow me this indulgence. This is just for fun, so I hope you can enjoy it. This is a work of fiction, any correlation to persons alive or dead is purely happenstance. ******************************************************** Tabitha McCray a glorious young maiden of eigh...
The atmosphere in the Manchester Walker mansion was so cold and austere—and judgmental—that Ada could feel herself drying up and withering away from the inside. But this is exactly what she wanted; if she had known how to enter a convent, she would have done so. She wanted this cancer of sensuality inside her to be lanced and to flow away. The Walker sister...