With the computer online age, a new way of meeting people came about. Gone were the days of placing personal ads in newspapers and other tree based publications. Now it was all digital. I had been using computers since the first version of Windows. After fair number of college classes and self study, I could hold my own on figuring digital things out. Thi...
RECURSION 1. A backward movement, return. Now rare or Obsolete 1616 BULLOKAR Eng. Expos., Recursion, a running backe. 1660 BOYLE New Exp. Phys. Mech. xxvi. 203 The Recursions of that Pendulum which was swinging within the Receiver. 1677 GILPIN Demonol. (1867) 237 Our passions in their workings do depend upon the fluctuations, excursions, and recursions of t...
I hadn't been home and hour when the phone rang. It was Crystal Croker from Discreet Gentlemen Escorts. "Recovered have you?" she said. I laughed knowing that I had left them thoroughly shagged an hour ago. "Quite, thank you. Do you have something for me?" "As a matter of fact, yes. Jaqueline Westhaven would like to be squired to a company dinner at the Hi...
I woke up that morning with a note from Daddy on the edge of my bed. Frowning down at it, I sighed. Daddy would be out for most of the day, leaving me with chores to do. Rosemary, I apologize for my absence today, but I have to attend a very important work meeting. Please do some of the chores on the enclosed list, dress, and feed yourself. While the manor...
Meet Steve Sinclair, he's a big and tall nerd originally from the island of Haiti. Ruggedly handsome, if somewhat socially awkward, he's the kind of brother whom the sisters think is cool...until he opens his mouth. He's a grad student at Carleton University in the City of Ottawa, Ontario, trying to get his MBA. This brother is pushing thirty and happens to...
Lok. A barren, dusty planet in the Mid Rim covered with sulphur pools, lifeless rivers and volcanoes. Home to the Kimogilla lizard, supposed kin to Tatooine's Krayt dragons and to numerous other dangerous beings, smaller in size but no less deadly. The lone figured grinned as she stepped off the shuttle in Death's Company Stronghold. Bracing herself against...
"Rise and shine, sleeping ugly, it's feeding time," came the Guardsman's grating voice, and the vampire rose from the death-like sleep that ensnared all of his kind during the daylight hours. Even in this cell, deep underground, surrounded by steel and concrete, he could feel the light of the sun shining above. Sighing, he rose and stretched, then looked at...
To the Alexandria Children's Orphan Asylum, I am a young woman looking for three small children to raise and love. I understand that, as a single woman, you may have your doubts about my ability to care for three children, but I can assure you, I am quite capable. I own a farm just outside of Knightsville, and I have plenty of room to care for them. I also...
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We've been friends for a while, Jack Hart and I. Neither one of us in a steady relationship and Jack always counting on me to fix him up with someone, "like you, Rose, but not like you." I knew what he meant by that and I was never really hurt by it. Trying to set him up with friends and acquaintances. But things were changing. My feelings began to change...