They had left the lodge that morning and walked through the spruce forest climbing gradually along the higher ground of Seal Bay toward the top of the ridge. The day was warm and sunny and they had enjoyed the long walk along the floor of the forest and along the beach. As they reached the top of the ridge they walked with their arms around each other fully...
If there was one thing I enjoyed it was cycling. We lived on the outskirts of the city so after work I could hop on my bike and cover my five miles of country road. I had indulged myself in a quality ten-speed cross-country bike; it was lightweight and negotiated rougher secondary roads quite well. My husband thought I was crazy but I explained it kept me...
Passion In James County XI Abby By D.C. Roi Chapter twenty-two Lee Marklin finally got time to go home during his lunch hour. He checked the garage, saw Abby's car wasn't there, and began to get angry. How dare she not be home? Where the hell was she? He stormed into the house. "Abby! Goddamit, Abby! Where the hell are you?" he yelled. Then he saw the e...
It started as a tension-reducing fantasy. Whenever work or the aggravations of city life started to get to me, I'd let my thoughts take me there. My 'fantasy flights' became more frequent. Far from being an outdoorsman, I needed to convince myself that I could do it. Standing on the lakeshore watching my outfitter's seaplane fade into the clear blue sky, I...
Back to Nature -- Breeding Season There are a lot of tales floating around about things that have happened in the mountain range region known as the Blue Ridge Mountains. Some are actual facts, some have some half truths to them, but most are wild tales of an over active imagination. Sometimes the line between fact and fiction is a thin one and it's hard to...
Since time immemorial, my kind have roamed the Himalayas, and much of the lands of Eurasia, as well as the forests and jungles of the Asian continent. Bigfoot, the Yeti, the Abominable Snowman, the humans have so many names for us. Some of those names are downright funny, others infuriate the hell out of me. Since we can't exactly go on CNN to correct those...
Bill Holder tried to sleepwalk through life, after Jennifer divorced him. But his wakeup call came from the police. They politely informed him that his 14-year-old daughter, Lisa, had been arrested for shoplifting. Ashamed that he had neglected her, Bill became a dedicated father. Now twenty-two, Lisa was a senior at Boston College, on her way to becoming a...
I closed my eyes…the sparks from his fire ring flashing erratically against the soft, velvet interior of my eyelids. A rush…a hot, viscous flood of my juices flowed heavily into my palm as my voice rent the still fabric of the night once more. Rapidly I thrust my fingers into my quivering core…trying to satisfy the driving need that screamed through my very...
"Bilal Kwame, you're drunk on power, and you've been disloyal, unreliable and downright treacherous, for this, the Pack sentences you to death," said Alina Jameson, my former lover and the co-leader of my Pack. She stood before me, tall and majestic, her dark brown skin glistening in the firelight, her long dark hair framing her beautiful, stern face. Once u...
With the help of a polar bear, a man proves, conclusively, that global warming exists. Dave lived in Alaska. He's lived here all his life. Just after Alaska was purchased from Russia in 1867, his family settled here in the 1880's, long before it became a state, in 1959. Rejecting the wild west gold rush that panicked people with dreams of instant wealth t...