U2's Mysterious Ways is coming out of my phone again: My ringtone for Emily. I ignore it - just watch the waves crash on the beach until it shuts up. I take another sip of beer as the missed call chimes. I glance down at it next to me: Five missed calls. I'd only been here about an hour. StingRay's bar & grill was rather empty for a weekend. Maybe the heat...
CHAPTER 1 I was thirteen when I got what Mama called the curse. I had been warned, but the blood frightened me. She hugged me and kissed me and cried. "You're a woman now," she said. "Everything will be different. You must be so careful, especially with men." I had to dress differently, like Mama did. My hair had to be covered at all times out of the hous...
She'd had enough. The revolver she kept in the closet was loaded with six bullets before she stepped to the mirror, covering the latest red mark on her neck with make up. Yes, she'd kill him this time, she told herself, it can't go on. As she strutted out onto the drive of the big house his wealth had brought her, she felt a strange but undeniable pleasure i...
It was after a good deal of search that Manisha and Amit had finally chosen this house. It was in an upmarket locality of the town. Although the house was small, it was compact and the neighbourhood was good. That is what the agent who had got them this house had told them. Manisha was all of twenty eight years old and married four years back to Amit, a soft...
Hey guys! As promised, I am back! I've been working on By the Bay lately because it's the story that has inspired me the most. But not to worry, all you fans of Colorblind and Alex. Those stories aren't far from my mind, and I'm still brainstorming for ideas on how to continue/end them. Anywho, I hope you enjoy the latest of BTB. Don't forget to rate and...
{This story has cheating in it, so go ahead and be outraged} Denver Hawkins sat in his car that Monday afternoon, his hands gripping the steering wheel so tightly it was a wonder he didn't break the thing. Just 49 years old, days from reaching fifty, his entire world had just come apart. He was already feeling badly about things, the next Wednesday was h...
Patti Perkins lived up to the stereotype of the popular high school cheerleader. Thin, beautiful, shapely, and snobbish. She had a close circle of friends that shared those same qualities. Most people didn't measure up to their lofty standards of looks...or what they considered to be cool. I was, quite simply, just a nerd. Straight A student, and somewhat o...
Vanessa had gone to have coffee with Susan as they had agreed and their conversation had taken up all morning. Neither of them wanted to quit just then so they went to a near restaurant to have lunch and continued talking for most of the afternoon. Vanessa had told her the whole story of her voyage of sexual discovery and Susan told her about their swinging...
When Leif had been planning to surprise Lynne with a visit from her granny during the wedding, he truly hadn't counted on how difficult it would be to score last minute tickets from New Orleans to New York in three short weeks. All night last evening, he'd been up on the computer on orbitz, expedia, and other travel sites looking for tickets. He could barel...
Sara set down her suite case, and almost flopped onto the bed. The motel room she had booked into was small, but clean and nicely furnished, and the bed seemed like heaven after twenty- two hours sitting in an airplane. She was amazed at how exhausting sitting and doing nothing could be, and the jet lag was catching up with her already. It was an effort to g...