Marie is a decent God fearing woman brought up in the Catholic faith. She has spent the last twenty years of her life raising a family and looking after her husband. It is only now at the age of forty-six that she is being given the time and energy to explore what she now wants from life. Her husband and her sleep in separate beds as so many seem to do after...
Chapter 2 -- Akshata and Sundar -- The Proposal | 3 years earlier | When Akshata joined GloboDynamics Technologies as a Media Intern, it was like a breath of fresh air for the company. Sundar still recalled how she thought, on her first day, that formal clothing would be mandatory at work and showed up in an elaborate kurta-pyjama with odhni. Her oval face...
Jonathan was not inclined to leave the warmth of the Wizards Sanctum dormitory room, now that he was dry. The weather outside was the same as it had been for several days - unrelenting rain. Not unusual for the city of Stormwind, the human capital of the Alliance in Azeroth, but familiarity did not make being cold and wet any more appealing. Of course, nobod...
This is the fourth in the series, I'm afraid there has been a long gap between submissions, real life commitments having intervened. For those of you who haven't already done so I would recommend that you read the first three before reading this fourth but hopefully not last in the series. Please enjoy. ***** Emma was so disappointed when Hugo called to sa...
After a moment his whole demeanor changed and he went still, silent as a lion before the kill as his lips hovered above my neck. And very soon the stillness became unnatural as he waited, distressingly immobile even as I felt his excitement thrum around me. Protective instincts kicked in and I stopped breathing, stepped outside myself, focusing on calm, calm...
I woke to the sound of Mitch yelling my name in a desperate tone and I tried to move but hurt too badly. My head hurt, my shoulder hurt even more. I was down at the bottom of the hill, half in and half out of the creek. I tried to pull myself up and realized that my left shoulder was dislocated. I guessed that I was in some form of shock because I didn't pas...
*Note to readers, since these are supernatural creatures, they have some special powers. One of them being telepathy, so the ' ' means that they are not speaking out loud but telepathically. I hope I haven't confuzzled you, that would just ruin the story. :) * Christian woke with a start. Sweat poured down his chest, he breathed harshly rapidly. Oh shit. H...
Note: Thanks to remittancegirl for editing this story * She was warm and hungry. She could hear two men arguing close by. Darla slowly opened her eyes and looked around. She realized that she was wrapped in a thick fur blanket. *Well that accounts for why I am warm. Where am I? * she wondered. Darla slowly scanned the room with her wide blue eyes. The room...
As the plane touched down at Gatwick, I felt relief flooding through my body. Petrified of flying since an incident on a British Airways flight from New York (a disturbed passenger, airline staff assaulted, a hushed, frantic though thankfully fruitless search for an on-board explosive) two years ago, I subjected myself to hours of silent, personal angst by t...
Tatsu Island, Japan June, 1995 The night wind blew through the trees, causing the leaves to stir and produce a soft rustling. The waxing moon shone in the ink black sky and was reflected on the surface of the still water. The moonlight was the only illumination, an ethereal beacon unveiling the secrets of the darkness and finally resting on an abandoned ca...