Some older guys are buddies of mine. Winters in Sag Harbor only the fire department bake sale and amateur poetry readings at Ashawagh Hall are exciting. I show up at Rowdy Hall in a tight red dress and start the intravenous Chardonnay drip and make friends. Too bad Rowdy Hall doesn't stock white Burgundies at $250.00 a bottle; I know my buddies would compete...
Friday had arrived in its anticipated glory. Friday the end of the week, the beginning of the end, two glorious days of not wearing camouflage, not listening to young Marines explain why they can't perform during training, not being the first one to greet their bleary eyes when they stumble out in the oh-dark-thirty morning for physical training. Hell, two d...
Authors Note: I have had a few emails and a comment about how It Was Fate has a lot of differences from its original Fate. Yet, Fate was kind of my trainer story. It was simple and the characters were not well developed. So, with this new... more like restart of Fate I'm trying to find my voice as a writer. I write on here for the readers and basically as pr...
Eric woke up in his bed, stretched, and went to the shower. After dressing, he sat down in front of the tv. Just another day as an alien abductee. He wasn't feeling hungry yet, but he knew the first girl should be arriving soon. As if on cue, the door opened, he looked up, and gave a start. The woman at the door was not being propelled through it, but was si...
Chapter 12: The Siege Begins Sybil and Lilly sat in the vestibule of Ruthven Manor, patiently watching the door. They weren't great friends with each other, but had always been on good terms, and Lilly had harbored a minor crush on Sybil for quite awhile. Sybil's long mane of red hair and curvy, buxom figure made her stand out from most of the slender, dark...
The two men were standing on the beach, gazing out to sea. One threw pebbles and the other sketched the ocean and setting sun in charcoal. Mana watched them, hiding behind a large rock near a cave only a few dolphin lengths away. She had watched them arrive at the deserted beach, walking from the large square box her father had called a castle. It had high r...
Chapter One: Etain "My beloved, do you know / How many times I stared at clouds, / Thinking that I saw you there? / These are feelings that do not pass so easily; / I can't forget what we claimed as ours." VNV Nation "Beloved" + + + + + This was breaking all the rules. But the war had broken all the rules of peacekeeping Jedi and a civilized Republic a...
Now, it's time to hear Stuart's side of the story. This happens during the action of Chapter 10, in which he describes how he met Bitsy and how Tracy Bathory made her tantalizing offer. As always, please let me know what you think. *** Stuart was in a hell of his own making. All of his adult life, he had been alpha. He had been able to plunder, rape, take...
Lexi had heard rumors about the new history teacher, but she had no idea the rumors were based on any truth. But they were. She discovered that much when she walked into U.S. History on the first day of her senior year of high school. This teacher was hot. No, this teacher was beyond hot: he was on fire. He was tall—at least 6 feet. He wore crisp, white sh...
Allow me to first set the background for this story. I am a senior sergeant in the U.S. Army. I am also single 27-year-old soldier being stationed in Germany for my first time. It is in the late 1970’s and I was stationed in a small town along the East/West German borders. I reported into my command and was assigned a Company. When I reported to my company...