West in the 22nd Century: Apple Juice and Citrus Scene: Somewhere in America: The West in the 22nd Century (Part 1) "Are you coming?" "Where to?" replied Apple Juice. "To the beach," said Citrus. "I thought I might stay in and do some painting today," said Apple Juice, a little flustered by her friend's suggestion. Why did Citrus have to be so active a...
The year is 2002, the city is Los Angeles. Pat and I have rooms at a hotel next to the Van Nuys airport in the Valley. Our company is headquartered in Ft. Lauderdale, and we are out west working on a project at a district location. It is late spring and we enjoy an evening meal together near downtown L.A. When we return to the hotel it is dark outside. Pat...
-=-=-=-=-=-=- Tatiana Vittori Redstone, Imperial Kingdom of Tardia 1st of Sunfall, 1282 D.f. -=-=-=-=-=-=- The month of Sunfall opened with chilling rains and lightning over the City of a Thousand Towers. Rivers of rainwater threatened to flood the city's sewers this dark day, and bolts of raw energy pummeled the many red towers of the city. Fortun...
Dame Sara Illou, Knight of the Land, sat astride her steed Snowglide as the mare carefully picked her way up the mountainside. She and Sophie had split up that morning, both agreeing that they would return to the camp that evening if neither of them found anything. Sophie had gone east, and Sara had gone west. Below her she could see the huge waterfall that...
Dear Readers - After too much delay, here is the next installment of Marsha, Scott, and Mark's adventures with the CIA and its adversaries. ***** The CIA Doublecross - Part 3 - A Future in Idaho We were being seated in the Boise State faculty club dining room and I was doing my panicked best to decide how to handle the fact that our CIA contact, Mark Coop...
Synopsis: Caught in the undertow of the dreadful great Eorfleode War, a young student finds himself spurred to enlist as the result of being given a white feather, for cowardice, by his ex-girlfriend. Facing death and near disaster at every step, he learns about different colored feathers, such as the blood red arrows of the Boar-Men. Damaged in heart and so...
Tom and Lisa were on the third leg of their journey from Naples, Florida to their summer home in Cape Cod. They have been married for over thirty years and still find each other to be "hot." Both have the "I workout" appearance that upscale suburbanites, yuppies, strive for. "I need to get out of this car," Lisa said. They were in the countryside in the Sh...
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Four hours by plane and another three by limo. That's how long it took to reach the estate of Cormac Johnson, billionaire, tech-guru, and charming businessman. The estate, out in the middle of the mountains of Coloardo, was as close as you could get to isolated without leaving the country to some obscure island in the middle of the Pacific, or the far northe...
Rowan and his party were indeed having nearly all of the trouble that they could handle. And their epic journey down-river was one that the gléaman could and did tell countless times in the years afterwards. They were making very fast time going back down the river, paddling hard with their oars along with the current to make even greater speed than The Lad...