Chapter 01: The Head Nurse This is the story of an odd couple. A couple with strange ideas, different beliefs and opposing moralities. One driven by a religious fanaticism, both by a sexual appetite. High-school sweethearts, but not in the Disney storybook sense, this is the story of Orla and Jamal. They were seniors when it happened, although they had bot...
My names Lady Denisa I’m 47 have been married to Lord Henry for nearly thirty years. The year’s 1944 and my husband’s a Wing Commander in the R.A.F. He’s currently in Africa as Officer commanding Sidi Ben Alli. He’s been there fighting the Nazis for nearly two years so not been back to England in that time. We’ve five children all married and between them...
Allah's wonders will never cease, and every day I urge all my friends, whether fellow Muslims or our fellow People of the Book, the Christians and Jews, to thank the Most High for His blessings. How else would you explain how, a year ago, I was a cleaner at a business office and now I'm married to the owner's son? He's a wonderful man who embraced Islam to b...
What am I doing here in this restaurant in the Hyatt sitting across from my husband? I feel more like a high school girl who has been set up on a blind date by a friend. Which is what has happened. Matt and I have been married for about 6 years now and everything has been great. We met in college and got married about a year after we graduated. Life has bee...
"East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet," or so wrote the illustrious Rudyard Kipling in his 'Ballad of East and West.' With all due respect to Kipling, however, the two have indeed met, and have been dancing a complicated exchange of goods, ideas and even people for many centuries now. And this cultural exchange applies to almost all...
"Have y’ got far to travel, ma’am?” Amy looked up from her steak and ale pie with its accompaniment of fresh greens and regarded the innkeeper with cursory interest. He was fair washing his hands with anxiety, or so it seemed, and she wondered what the cause of his worry might be. Surely not the food – which, though simple, was tasty and nourishing. The gl...
This story is a true story of a friend of mine. She told me this story in confidence. She told me I could write her story but not to use her or any of her family’s names. So names have been changed but not the facts. I grew up in a small town in Carolinas. My parents were very religious and strict. I was one of seven children. We were not rich but we weren’...
As I sat in my unmarked car up on the third floor of the parking garage I glanced at my watch. It was 1:02AM. "Hey detective, when are these guys supposed to show up again?" said one of the uniforms sitting in the car with me. "They should be here now." I said looking at the drug dealer leaning against a pillar waiting for his daily delivery of Climax. "I...
Kit scowled as she lectured me on the benefits of diet and exercise. "Dad, you need to do some kind of exercise. Have you thought about walking?" she asked seriously. "I walk." I answered. "Where?" She inquired. "From the bed to the bathroom and from the TV to the kitchen." I responded. Kit shook her head disgustedly and regarded me as though I was a...
Tess and Marie rented the motel room and settled in to wait, watching a rerun of M*A*S*H. Marie, thirty-two but looking younger, wore her golden hair in long curls. She lay back on the bed, absent-mindedly smoking a menthol cigarette and sipping sherry. She wore skin-tight jeans that accentuated her best feature, her round hips and full bottom, and a checker...